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Well That Was Useful

Programming Debugging

8 months ago 328.0K views 0 shares

Well That Was Useful

Oh fantastic, you finally decided to check the documentation after hours of suffering! And what do you find? Instructions so vague they might as well be ancient hieroglyphics. The documentation literally shows you how to put a square peg in a round hole—technically correct but COMPLETELY useless for your actual problem. Thanks for nothing, documentation writers who clearly moonlight as abstract artists! Nothing says "helpful" quite like instructions that make you question your entire existence and career choices.

The Documentation Disappointment

Debugging Programming StackOverflow Webdev

1 year ago 275.5K views 3 shares

The Documentation Disappointment

The eternal promise of documentation vs. the crushing reality. You spend hours debugging some obscure error, finally surrender your ego and check the docs, only to find such helpful gems as "returns a value if successful" or my personal favorite: "this function does what it's supposed to do." Thanks for nothing. The only thing more useless than bad documentation is the mandatory team-building exercise where Dave from accounting tells us about his weekend kayaking trip.