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Discussion on: Beware of excess of "best practices"

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Pratik sharma

I don't even read documentation. You expect me to read best practises.

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Mohammad Wasiq

Reading documentation can save you hours of debugging.

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Drew Knab

Or they're bad docs and they leave you more confused about why your code doesn't work.

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Nucu Labs • Edited

Most docs I came across (I read some docs) were good, unless the library/thing was not widely used or old.

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Milton Sermoud

O-oh, Docker didn't like that.

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GAUTAM JHA

Why reading documentation? when you have 15 days to finish user story.

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Renan Moura • Edited

Why spend 5 minutes reading the docs if one can spend hours on trial and error, right?

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Javel Rowe

This is the real best practice 😂

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Ben Halpern

lol