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Using search engines sometimes feel like a lost art if you spend any time in Facebook groups, where people will ask mundande, simple, and easily Googleable questions. Sometimes I wonder if people do it to fill some sort of social need, and don't particularly care for the answer.
Using search engines sometimes feel like a lost art if you spend any time in Facebook groups, where people will ask mundande, simple, and easily Googleable questions. Sometimes I wonder if people do it to fill some sort of social need, and don't particularly care for the answer.
Google is not a search engine. It is a memory upgrade, and anybody who tries to write software with a standard human memory is obsolete.
Google is not a search engine. It is a memory upgrade, and anybody who tries to write software with a standard human memory is obsolete.
Software is not so complicated that you have to Google search everything every time. If you are not internalizing new knowledge, you are performing poorly.
Using search engines sometimes feel like a lost art if you spend any time in Facebook groups, where people will ask mundande, simple, and easily Googleable questions. Sometimes I wonder if people do it to fill some sort of social need, and don't particularly care for the answer.
I can be both. I arrested myself typing out a “let me google that for you” reply on a small social network years ago. I realized doing that stops a conversation dead in its tracks. And sometimes people just want to have a conversation.
Google is not a search engine. It is a memory upgrade, and anybody who tries to write software with a standard human memory is obsolete.
I also think that anything js-adjacent has a real culture problem. Trying to dredge an answer out of a Medium tutorial written in a cloying tone and interspersed with pointless gifs can be such a groan enducing experience. I'm hoping that the community will mature alongside its technology.
Google is not a search engine. It is a memory upgrade, and anybody who tries to write software with a standard human memory is obsolete.
That’s total nonsense. Having a good memory is still extremely valuable.
One of the things I don't like about webdev (among many) is that I even have to Google in the first place. Manpages are so much more immediate and accessible. I also think that anything js-adjacent has a real culture problem. Trying to dredge an answer out of a Medium tutorial written in a cloying tone and interspersed with pointless gifs can be such a groan enducing experience. I'm hoping that the community will mat…
You don't have to search the internet for web dev any more than you have to do so for any other dev job.