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[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can't browse lemmy or play phone games while I read docs, but I can while I wait for the program to compile, load itself into a docker container, deploy to the test server, load my browser, and then fail to have fixed that bug I was looking at. Oh well, let me change one character and try again, it only takes about 15 minutes per attempt.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Doing this exact thing, right at the moment I'm reading this. Oof. Time to get my shit together lol.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What a horrible pipeline you have. There's surely some way you could speed up that process?

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

And cut into their Lemmy time? Inconceivable!

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

compiling is like doing a poo at work. you could do it faster if you tried, but it's much more fun to browse your phone instead

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Meh, I guess I've been at much more humane workplaces, where it feels nicer to get my work done efficiently and then no one cares if I leave much earlier.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Hold onto that, those are diamonds in the rough!

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Example code >>>> Documentation

[–] f314@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Example code == documentation

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

exampleCode == typeOf(Documentation)

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Example code >= Documentation

[–] Excel@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

Example code is a form of documentation

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was just trying to figure out what attributes I could pass to a component to modify the ui without having to custom jobby it.

The docs simply showed an example of its most basic use case and a link to the original library they got the component off that they modified... The docs on that link also just show an example of it's most basic use case...

They didn't list all the possible things you could pass it anywhere.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 1 month ago

This is a good example. I just came to say looking at the doc is going to take over 5 mins.

[–] Acters@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Honestly as someone who partakes in some cyber security challenges for fun, there are plenty of weird things that programmers or doc writers never ever consider but other times the docs are so barebones that it is worthless to read. And a high word count does not always mean the doc is useful when all the text is either ai generated slop, or a lot of high level ideations that don't get into how to work it.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Ahh, or just reading the changelog...

It wasn't 8 hours for me, but the last Nimbus skin of Kodi broke some ratings due their recent API upgrade or something like that... I was doing all kinds of troubleshooting, but the solution was stated in the changelog... Just clean up ratings cache 😃

[–] mdd@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago
[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I felt assaulted by that meme.

/s

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

hangs head in shame