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This wasn’t always true, when software was less replaceable and felt more valuable. Part of this cake from the fact that software distribution was more difficul
by reikonomusha 9y ago
This wasn’t always true, when software was less replaceable and felt more valuable. Part of this cake from the fact that software distribution was more difficult. If you ever have purchased a compiler for example you might find yourself interested in everything you can learn about it from the manual.
Now developers are trigger-happy Googlers looking for the single salient example atop StackOverflow answers.
- menacingly 9y agoOr, more likely, somewhere in the entire operation of a computer there exists a task or two in which we don't care to specialize.
- chickenfries 9y agoThe browser is a much nicer environment for consuming manuals than the terminal.
- apsdsm 9y agoTrue, unless you're actively working in the terminal, in which case it's kind of a pain to switch to, I'm gonna say.
- JdeBP 9y agoNonetheless, it was the reasoning that underpinned Daniel Bernstein's slashdoc idea from the turn of the century. * https://cr.yp.to/slashdoc.html https://cr.yp.to/slashdoc.html
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