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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:00PM (#28804620)
That was not my intention. I was operating under the assumption that anybody in the comment section had read the article first, since then it would have been known that I wasn't quoting the author, I was quoting something the author quoted.
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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by svelle on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:34PM (#28805421)
It's the correct assumption to be made for the comments section to the article you quoted from.
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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by njbooher on Friday October 08, 2021 @08:10PM (#28805689)
Reading the comments to decide if you want to read the article is also a valid workflow. Although anyone doing that (me included) isn't entitled to complain about quotes not having enough context.
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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by ajb on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:03AM (#28807929)
I always look at the HN comments first to see if the article is worth reading, and probably other people do as well. HN loads quickly, doesn't have a paywall/cookie pop-up so it's just a better experience to look here first, and often the comments here are better value anyway.
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