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> Maybe I trained myself to work like that after reading so much bad documentation. Same experience here. The documentation is always wrong. Sometimes it's wro
by a1369209993 7y ago
> Maybe I trained myself to work like that after reading so much bad documentation.
Same experience here. The documentation is always wrong. Sometimes it's wrong in minor, obvious ways, sometimes it's wrong in subtle corner cases you won't hit for years, sometimes it bears no resemblence to reality[0], but it's always wrong.
The only way to be sure is to look at the code.
0: And then there's cases like the C and C++ standards, where it bears no resemblence to reality and people are actively twisting and sabotaging reality to fit, but that's a different problem.
- Insanity 7y agoThe only documentation I read is the onboarding stuff. After that, I dive into the code