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The topic was specifically about it. Fuck off dang.

I was speaking more broadly regarding anonymity. > Yes, of course there are many people who are aggressive about their views and basically intolerant, but if someone crosses the li…

> That's why you should take care of protecting your identity online. In the future, you won't be allowed to be anonymous online. Governments don't like it and sooner or later they…

I literally got downvoted immediately. Thus proving my point. :D

People end up getting ridiculed, punished or even have mobs of people harassing them for having dissenting viewpoints online. Why bother exposing yourself to different viewpoints w…

I've worked in a lot of places where there were no docs and nobody knew how any worked. So be thankful that you have some docs.

Not be harsh. But if someone is going to just quit because of jargon (which everyone has to learn btw) then Sayōnara.

If you don't understand how something works you shouldn't be including it in your project. I regularly reject PRs because of this.

Obviously. If the docs are garbage then you are going to have to find alternatives. However these days devs have never had it better.

> best practices may not be obvious even when reading the docs I am right now working on a project because of the googling stuff has led to the worst practices at the moment. I hav…

It is fine for finding the docs. However people use it to find quick, frequently out of date or just wrong solutions on the net. For example. If you are using the babel compiler an…

Google is okay for research on how other people have achieved something. But generally these days I am of the opinion it just teaches you bad habits. I really wish people would jus…

> Java projects publish Javadoc which is good - you can sit down and understand an API. It's not the same story on .NET. Almost all the projects I use with .NET have sufficient doc…

I wish they would scrap them entirely. I used to do very long commutes in the car. If anyone here has done a lot of driving they will know that you tend to go into "autopilot", you…

> Gave it a serious go but it still lives inside the Windows + Visual Studio bubble. I work in a small shop and most of the developers use Visual Studio with Linux or a Mac. Most o…