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> Properly reading the docs can take hours, and most don't have that much time to spare. And, reading the docs looks to an external observer exactly like playi
by commandlinefan 6y ago
> Properly reading the docs can take hours, and most don't have that much time to spare.
And, reading the docs looks to an external observer exactly like playing video games or browsing facebook all day. Modern "agile" organizations dedicate two or three watchers to each actually productive employee to "make sure" that the productive people are actually being productive. This means that the only time spent on tasks is spent on tasks whose outcome can be quickly, easily externally observed.
That this necessarily produces a substandard product seems to be unimportant.
- doorstar 6y agoI just faced this - I was trying to write a somewhat complex MongoDB query and I decided it was finally time to read a book rather than just cutting-and-pasting from stack overflow until I stumbled across something that seemed to work. So of course in our status meeting yesterday I had to say I hadn't accomplished anything. In the long-term it's good to have someone on the team who really understand MongoDB. In the short-term it looks like slacking off. - Of course my conclusion after reading about MongoDB queries was to decide that I wanted as little as possible to do with MongoDB queries and am going to avoid them at all costs.
- grimjack00 6y agoYou read the book; you're now the expert.