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Well there are lots of cases where I would be wasting 2 hours searching through docs to maybe find something meaningful while my coworker has all the required k

• raffraffraff 5y ago
  I definitely understand this, but there are limits. A guy I worked with (super nice, hard working and a great engineer) would always slack me with questions that he had previously slacked me. In his defence, these questions were in my wheel house and were tricky things that he only have to do maybe once every couple of months. But when he was slacking me he'd literally say "hey man, I know I keep having to ask this but..." I eventually started responding: "Scroll. The. Fuck. Up.". The answer would typically be a few pages up. I even tried using the slack search for his question, and would find the previous time he asked. And yes, this shit was also documented in the git repo in a README.md that was alongside the code (so there was no "searching for the docs")