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> its people so removed from the tech that they fail to RTFM I find it highly amusing to think anything resembling an average user of tech has actually RTFM.
by falcolas 4y ago
> its people so removed from the tech that they fail to RTFM
I find it highly amusing to think anything resembling an average user of tech has actually RTFM.
Heck, I still haven't finished the manual on Firefox and here I am using it as my daily driver. And it has people who actually understand how it all works writing the "manual".
EDIT: How many landlords have read the instructions on how RealPage's rent pricing software works, and how it sets values? 10%? Less?
- Quarrelsome 4y agowell in this case the RTFM is just the paragraph on the release page that warns against using it in any high-risk scenario.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoDoes firefox actually have a complete manual? One that accurately covers the behavior of every option in about:config. I'd love to be able to diff one file to see what things they've screwed with this time when I update.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoHeck, MDN doesn’t even have full documentation for >10 year old tech Mozilla was tightly coupled to in the same time frame. Try discerning how to use XML-related features in a browser and you’ll very quickly find yourself trying to extrapolate from C/Java/even PHP stuff that might be tangentially related but probably isn’t, from increasingly less relevant websites. I couldn’t read the manual even though I tried.