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I tend to understand more from reading others code than documentation.

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  • 3
    Documentation should give you the big picture easier.
  • 1
    Some bad docs may make you feel like that. Good docs often times won't make you read code and get a headache.
  • 1
    I have reverse engineered some circuit boards. It is kind of fun to see what kind of tricks people do with electronics.

    I think its fun to read other people's code, but sometimes their tricks are really fucked up.
  • 2
    ahmm.... some of the code I have seen helped me understand f**k all.

    Quality code however.. totally agree!
  • 1
    I'm weaseling, but "it depends".

    Sometimes if the documentation is abstract or hard to map to a use case, i start looking for examples instead.

    Conversely I've made some terrible implementations based on examples where I realized I could delete an embarrassing amount of cargo cult bloat after spending 5 minutes skimming over the docs.
  • 0
    Wish you were here to understand this code I was staring at today.

    Like casting bones on the ground and trying to read the future from them
  • 3
    @TrevorTheRat have you tried turning the calcium off and on again?
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