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Re:Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it by pavel_lishin on Thursday June 21, 2018 @12:40PM (#17366729)
But that still fills search engine results with garbage I have to filter through. It's hard enough searching for solutions to problems when there's five StackOverflow answers with full of bad data and incorrections scattered through the comments, answers, and comments on answers.
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Re:Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it by jczhang on Thursday June 21, 2018 @02:03PM (#17367696)
Not the writer or publisher's problem imo.
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Re:Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it by pavel_lishin on Thursday June 21, 2018 @02:16PM (#17367843)
It's also not my problem when I throw my garbage into the river.
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Re:Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it by gglitch on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:24PM (#17368459)
Interesting. I don't have any opinion on the incidence rate of low-quality technical tutorials, but I think this is the first time I've seen Google search results analogized as a fragile public good we all have a more-or-less moral responsibility to be good stewards of.
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Re:Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it by firemancoder on Thursday June 21, 2018 @06:50PM (#17369888)
It's absolutely excellent way to frame the problem.
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Re:Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it by wongma on Thursday June 21, 2018 @01:54PM (#17367599)
Exactly. Bad and/or wrong is worse than nothing at all.
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