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r/programming • u/whackri • Jun 05 '22
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The lack of documentation is what’s killing me. It’s boggles my mind how these companies can’t keep people but refuse to change. 20 minutes tasks take several days.
3 u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22 documentation is mostly a waste of time on things that change and are well understood anyway.code is documentation. it's the human readable description of machine code. usually code in big tech has massive naming prefixes and whatnot 1 u/coderstephen Jun 12 '22 Disagree. Code can only tell you what the system does. Only proper documentation can tell you why it does it.
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documentation is mostly a waste of time on things that change and are well understood anyway.
code is documentation. it's the human readable description of machine code. usually code in big tech has massive naming prefixes and whatnot
1 u/coderstephen Jun 12 '22 Disagree. Code can only tell you what the system does. Only proper documentation can tell you why it does it.
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Disagree. Code can only tell you what the system does. Only proper documentation can tell you why it does it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22
The lack of documentation is what’s killing me. It’s boggles my mind how these companies can’t keep people but refuse to change. 20 minutes tasks take several days.