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I know, I know, but this revision compiles (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by casualhippo@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the knowledge that 6 hours of debugging can save you from 10 long and extenuating minutes of reading the documentation. That one you can only get by fixing the problem.

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Docs can only really help you if your problem is "I have used X from the library Y, yet I do not understand the baseline definition of X sufficiently and this is causing issues". A lot of problems in practice are much more fundamental than that