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Re:Everything I googled in a week as a professional software... by simion314 on Monday December 20, 2021 @04:45AM (#29622924)
A lot of my searches are for errors, using Google I can find answers like "yes package X version 3 will give 6that error on node 10 so fiddle around with version until you get it working since the package maintainer did not backport the fix".

Or I can find similar issues reported and open bug reports with my issue so I know that is not only me with this problem.

Sometimes I forget how to do something in the correct/efficient way, things I only do one time a year at most.

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Re:Everything I googled in a week as a professional software... by akyoan on Monday December 20, 2021 @04:51AM (#29622954)
The worst offenders for this are package bundlers. Like when they remove/change features and don't have the decency to leave a note saying what change and how to fix it. There are dozens of issues and StackOverflow questions dedicated to obscure errors that make no sense — if you're lucky to find them. Sometimes even specific errors come out but they don't make any sense. Could anyone add a link to these? No.
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