Do any languages other than C provide decent man pages?
I wanted to say C++ but I noticed decent
Ask HN: How do I code offline for a week?
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#22i would say dont.
unplug instead and consider it as a break.
youll just get disappointed once you encounter edge cases where you need more than the official documentation. i mean things that are hidden in github issues and stackoverflow posts.
it's okay to take a break anon, everythings gonna be okay.
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#23A colleague of mine had to do this regularly when working on certain projects for the gov. It was an air-gapped environment. So no access to the internet. This basically meant loading up a thumb drive of all the possible documentation he could get. You can use site archive tools to download an entire website's documentation. Depending on the complexity of what you want to build - you would also probably need to mirro…
kinda weird they airgap but allowed thumb drives.
that would be very hard for me though, coding without internet. he must be really good at his craft haha.
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#24Do any languages other than C provide decent man pages?
Languages from the GNU project tend to have decent info pages (e.g. Guile, GCL, Libc). Perl also comes with perldoc, which is like manpages but instead of using the man command you use the perldoc command.
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#25I don't know the circumstance of your tech exile, but I'd encourage you to take advantage of it to do something other than code! If you're going to be in nature, be in nature. If you're going to be with people, be with people. Those are the sorts of experiences you'll treasure, later in life, far more than a few more days of "productivity". If none of that applies, and you still want to learn something to do with tec…
It's really annoying to answer a question by telling the asker that you know better and they should do something else. This person cared enough about this question to ask it to a community on the internet. Have the humility to answer their question instead of telling them that you're wiser than them.
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#26Ignore all the know-it-alls here telling you that you shouldn't write code while you're on vacation. If any of them knew anything about being in nature they'd know that the morning and evening are the times with most wildlife activity, and hence there are plenty of hours for coding. And they'd also know that even those of us who actually spend time in nature regularly don't spend the entire day staring at the fucking trees! I'm with you, I write code because I love it, and I do it in nature. It's possible to code in nature and appreciate nature!
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#27I don't know the circumstance of your tech exile, but I'd encourage you to take advantage of it to do something other than code! If you're going to be in nature, be in nature. If you're going to be with people, be with people. Those are the sorts of experiences you'll treasure, later in life, far more than a few more days of "productivity". If none of that applies, and you still want to learn something to do with tec…
I’ve also noticed that in threads about stack overflow people often complain that questions are answered with “do something else”.
And here, “do something else” seems a popular answer too. Perhaps it’s how we approach problem solving in general.
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#28Can you elaborate what does “no internet” mean in this context?
Is there no way to go online for all duration of the trip?
Or is there some device that you can use occasionally to browse or perhaps even download something to an usb drive?
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#29Do any languages other than C provide decent man pages?
In python you can run help() on everything as I recently discovered.
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#30Pen and paper