One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
I don't agree with telling beginners to read the fucking manuals.
Whenever a beginner try to Read The Fucking Manual, he will waste a lot of time, get frustrated that he cannot do anything with it, feel stupid, thinks he is an imposter, ...
What they should do instead is to Read the Friendly Manuals.
But they may not have learned yet to know which manuals are friendly and which are fucking.
So I feel it's our responsabilities as more experienced developers to not just tell them to read the fucking manuals but instead guide them towards the friendly sort.
Just a coder and a dad. I love my family and I love to code!!!! started coding at 11, so I have 25 years under my belt. Still love learning about it every day. Black lives matter!
It's ok not to agree with me. I feel like you didn't read the whole post and maybe just glanced at the title. Perhaps you made an assumption that I said new people should leave us other devs alone and read the manual. Which i did not say. I said simple that that term can be handy, because instead of assuming you know something, why not just reference the guides?
This was in reference to a person of a certain type, who spends hours assuming their code should work, just to find out they were remembering it wrong and a quick read up on the actual official docs could help them.
I do like the "friendly" part, so I'll change my title!
One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
I don't agree with telling beginners to read the fucking manuals.
Whenever a beginner try to Read The Fucking Manual, he will waste a lot of time, get frustrated that he cannot do anything with it, feel stupid, thinks he is an imposter, ...
What they should do instead is to Read the Friendly Manuals.
But they may not have learned yet to know which manuals are friendly and which are fucking.
So I feel it's our responsabilities as more experienced developers to not just tell them to read the fucking manuals but instead guide them towards the friendly sort.
It's ok not to agree with me. I feel like you didn't read the whole post and maybe just glanced at the title. Perhaps you made an assumption that I said new people should leave us other devs alone and read the manual. Which i did not say. I said simple that that term can be handy, because instead of assuming you know something, why not just reference the guides?
This was in reference to a person of a certain type, who spends hours assuming their code should work, just to find out they were remembering it wrong and a quick read up on the actual official docs could help them.
I do like the "friendly" part, so I'll change my title!
Hello I did like your post, I disagreed with the title only. And now both are good :)