Re:Taking a year to explain computer things
by acqq on Saturday September 14, 2019 @02:27PM
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I can confirm that I had to show some pages of yours to some people who worked for more than a decade, exclusively writing C++ on Linux but never learned what you so nicely presented in some of your articles.
A lot of people simply stick to the minimum needed to do something. And then they need something condensed enough (and reliable) to make them doing something a bit differently.
In short, I'm very glad you're doing that work. Nobody who hasn't tried know how they poorly most of them would do it: everybody can write long winding rants about some minuscule detail of their own work. Writing a good, reliable and effective broader summary is much harder.
Please also consider having the dates on your work, or connection to the versions of the stuff you write about, you can also sell the new versions with the same title when the topic changes due to the new developments.
That's another weak point of internet: there's so much outdated information still floating as "the" solution.
A lot of people simply stick to the minimum needed to do something. And then they need something condensed enough (and reliable) to make them doing something a bit differently.
In short, I'm very glad you're doing that work. Nobody who hasn't tried know how they poorly most of them would do it: everybody can write long winding rants about some minuscule detail of their own work. Writing a good, reliable and effective broader summary is much harder.
Please also consider having the dates on your work, or connection to the versions of the stuff you write about, you can also sell the new versions with the same title when the topic changes due to the new developments.
That's another weak point of internet: there's so much outdated information still floating as "the" solution.