but i use ddg btw
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"Just because my medical school was in the Cayman islands doesn't mean I'm not a real doctor."
The number of people who simply donβt know how to effectively use a web search is absurd. If you can sit down to a search engine and find what youβre looking for within 5 minutes or less, youβre probably the go-to troubleshooting person for your family. The general population is almost dangerously tech-illiterate.
I don't know what pissed me off more, watching my mom write a book into the google search bar because she refuses to just use the key words or the fact that it gave her the exact info she wanted immediately despite being somewhat niche.
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Work with tech with the elderly.
God love a web search. The amount of people who think I am magic because of it is too high.
Most of genz get it pretty intuitively because they grow up with Google searching. I didn't realise until recently how much more important it is you understand the answers than find them especially if you're getting a niche error.
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There are actually only 12 people in the world who know how to code. The rest of us copy some variation of their code or their derived code.
Not much different to a doctor reading through clinical trials and then recommending the best treatment based on the use case. They didn't design, develop or manufacture the treatment. They were not involved in the trials. The majority are just expected to know enough to make an educated decision based on specific, individual circumstances.
I want my doctors to use tried and tested treatments. Not reinvent the wheel. A good doctor is one who has a high success rate.
Yet the industry acts as though you're not a good dev if you can't reinvented the wheel from scratch... coz... Ignorance? Ego? Delusions of grandeur?
Ignorance? Ego? Delusions of grandeur?
So you have met top programmers? Then why are you asking?
Hey now... if you reinvent the wheel you can make it your own.
...in a way that no one else will appreciate or understand, necessitating that the next person that comes along will also have to reinvent the wheel...
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Delusions of grandeur?
It's that one.
the industry acts as though you're not a good dev if you can't reinvent the wheel from scratch
My experience in the industry was that you're not considered a good dev if you ever try to reinvent the wheel from scratch.
Iβm hearing two different things in this thread.
And thatβs why everything sucks.
Doctors do that, too.
Somebody told me a story once about how they went to a doctor in Sweden. They told him their symptoms and the dude started googling them.
My doc is also googling stuff very often.
Probably not bad. If I could have memorized the entire dotnet framework documentation, I would. Until then I will keep googling, and I will usually recognize if the solution is sound. Probably the same with doctors and health.
Agreed, Iβm simply pointing out that the comic makes it seem like programming is something you can always just Google the answers for, instead of a skill that requires honing and a basal foundation, similar to medical science or law.
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You try memorising every known disease and alment in history.
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Lol, this also my journey. Decades in the workforce, zero formal training.
I know this is just a meme but school is an excellent way to have a foundational understanding of how things work, and learning to problem solve including googling.
a foundational understanding of how things work
Yeah! Kids these days are learning (in school) all about containers, service discovery, AWS, production deployment strategies, password vaulting solutions, cryptographic key/password management, and most importantly: politically defensive email practices.
Oh wait: No they aren't, LOL.
I just interviewed dozens of fresh (CS) college grads a few months ago and only one of them even knew what SSH was let alone anything remotely resembling basic command line stuff, Linux skills, or any of the above mentioned things.
They sure could write a mean linked list though! π
stackoverflow.com helped me retire
Definitely how I got through all my classes.
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