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> use without documentation Of course people’s projects can be unique, and my work may not be representative of the readers work, but I guess this raises the q
by bch 6y ago
> use without documentation
Of course people’s projects can be unique, and my work may not be representative of the readers work, but I guess this raises the question: what does “using Google” mean? I frequently use “lots of things” on my computer: man pages, other installed documentation, will browse source code of libraries I’m using, or indeed my own previous work. I can do this if, say, I have no Internet connection, but that doesn’t mean I’ve got a fully-formed bug-free implementation of my goal floating around in my photographic memory.
- dusted 6y agoIt's a good point, I take it to mean search for how to use or do something, even as google is becoming worse at finding things, it's still often waaay better than the search functionality available on the websites of many libraries and utilities. So yeah, I guess I take it to also mean searching through local documentation, but I know that's maybe not what was meant.