I know, I know, but this revision compiles

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• downpunxx@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  there's a level of knowledge which only comes from fixing a break

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, the knowledge that 6 hours of debugging can save you from 10 long and extenuating minutes of reading the documentation. That one you can only get by fixing the problem.

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    • acwern@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Docs can only really help you if your problem is “I have used X from the library Y, yet I do not understand the baseline definition of X sufficiently and this is causing issues”. A lot of problems in practice are much more fundamental than that

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    • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You sound like the guy who writes documentation in the form of:

      // functionA = is function that does A

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• Ambiorickx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Documentation”

  Spoken like someone who never came close to SAP

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• Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have ADHD and I’ll often find myself spending hours trying to find a fix, finally read the docs, get distracted, go back to finding a fix without the docs, remember that I was in the middle of reading a docs, and repeat

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• envis10n@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now do one with a GI Joe PSA

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