• spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 days ago

    I’ve had to use outdated documentation that made the problem worse. So I guess bad documentation is like bad, unprotected sex with a lot lizard that leaves you with an itching or burning sensation.

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    Respectfully disagree. Sometimes the documentation is so bad that you have more questions than answers and even then, what they provide still doesn’t really explain how to do something with enough details. It’s all literally shot in the dark and you’re just left with leap of faith. * cough * Sonicwall * cough *

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      Last week I spent a day trying to figure out why the thing in the damn documentation doesn’t work.

      Turns out, for that project “latest” doesn’t point to their latest release, but to what they currently have on their dev branch. And apparently they changed the whole module around since the last release.

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      7 days ago

      In general it’s supposed to be something good so it shouldn’t be harmful, but ofc exceptions exist, especially with sex, sadly…

      Bad often equals “not super good” in this context

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    Bad documentation could land you in prison.

    Bad sex is just horrible all around.

    not sure what this post is on about

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    When documentation is missing critical bits of information I don’t know if its better than nothing. Spend ages and then have to raise a ticket saying its a bug because its not working as documented, when no documentation would have just been an instant ticket raised asking how its supposed to work. Because it turns out everything was working correctly and the customer had just set something up wrong but there was no documentation covering that bit so according to what we had, all looked good.

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    Someone’s never read instructions autotranslated from Chinese and not checked for accuracy.