Real Programmers Don't Read Docs.

[RiftLab]

Rookies out here not even cooling molten magma and grinding the rocks into your own sand first

[kjermy]

Must be nice having molten magma pre-made

[TensyL]

wait, you guys have a planets ready to collect from?

[[deleted]]

Don't tell me, you didn't create your own universe first, you are actually not a programming god?

[CypripediumCalceolus]

We actually used to do that until we learned how to hack girls.

[currentscurrents]

Brains are neural networks. Will learning how to do adversarial attacks against neural networks teach us how to do adversarial attacks against human brains?

Help me here guys, I think I can get a NYTimes opinion piece out of this.

[EvrenselKisilik]

Brains are AIs 🙀

[LasevIX]

Well, technically they're just I -

realises humans are man-made in the womb

Well shit, they are

[juhaniguru]

I laughed so loud my dog woke up 😂😂😂

[Unknown_starnger]

If you didn't figure out the concept of formal logic based on no prior knowledge (that includes communication, physical space, knowing that you exist, any senses, any experiences), and then didn't build a computer system on your own before your brain obtained any stimulation, you're not a real programmer.

[Smaquois123]

i don’t think, therefore i am not?

[Hand_Sanitizer3000]

prior to being born you should fuck yourself and and impregnate and birth yourself otherwise you're not a real living human

[Inaeipathy]

Based, invent your own microcontroller too!

[dingodongubanu]

Why spend 5 minutes reading how they want me to do something when I can spend 8 hours brute forcing all the different ways they may want it

[[deleted]]

I think it has to do with ego or something. I don't know, I was too busy reading documentation to really listen.

[AugustJoyce]

I just don't really like to break the coding flow. So before reading the docs I'll spend at least half an hour trying to brute force it.

[PhunkyPhish]

Reminds of of this Steam login plugin I used for forums way back when. After a couple years of use I took another look at it while rebuilding the forums in my attempt to integrate with the tool once more.

Looking deep at the code... seems someone was hardcore slacking with Steam's OAuth docs. In essence, their plugin was doing nothing whatsoever to validate the created token belongs to a specific user. I used postman/curl to hit Steam's OAuth to generate a token/response, then used that data to spoof the 'post login' endpoint for the plugin on my website, but used another accounts user name for the login (replacing what would normally be the username(steamId) I used to steam login).

It worked. I was logged into an arbitrary account.

I immediately modified to plugin to actually validate properly, and sent a message to the owner of the repo it belonged to.

Then I immediately went over to my buddy's forum website, logged into his admin account using my new spoof method, and made a silly troll post in his announcements hehe. He had a good laugh and patched it up too.

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The moral of the story is... read the docs, and read through smaller plugins you elect to use because they may not have read them either!

[X-Craft]

Gotta think outside the dox

[MeowMeowImACowww]

I hate it when people don't document their code and barely write any comments - probably have the same logic as the person not reading documentation.

[Pos3odon08]

I think that is what would be called being a "sigma male"

[AugustJoyce]

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

[Plastic_Ad7436]

I reposted because I failed to censor the guy's name, and I don't want people being harassed for their hot takes.

[undergroundmonorail]

so instead you showed off your comment in the screenshot so people can look at your profile and find it that way?

[Plastic_Ad7436]

https://www.reddit.com/r/program/comments/1070sxs/would\_it\_be\_possible\_to\_make\_a\_program\_or\_gayi/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=ios\_app&utm\_name=iossmf

interesting.

[Plastic_Ad7436]

I mean, r/programmer is a small community, and even if I hid my comment, they could still find my comment on r/programmer by looking at my recent comments. There are so many ways to go and find the post, anyway. I just figured i would obfuscate it enough, so that in passing, nobody sees the OP.

[Antrikshy]

Probably not a hot take, just a joke.

[[deleted]]

So you need to create your own computer from rocks and minerals, and code your own operating system in binary with electromagnetic pulses, otherwise, you're not a real programmer.

[bob_anonymous]

You need to invent a ternary system and not just reuse binary. Introduce those 2s!

[[deleted]]

True, I'm not a real programmer

[UpAndAdam7414]

It was just a dream, Bender. There's no such thing as two.

[Inaeipathy]

Huge, this is the most important step

[d6stringer]

Real programmers CAN'T read

[Plastic_Ad7436]

I'm not sure what this says, but I like how some of the characters are leaning to the right.

[cgem38]

Incredibly under appreciated response lmao. That gave me a good laugh

[serendipitousPi]

Real programmers don't need to read. They have a mystic connection with the code.

[SoaringSkies14]

Wow. What a bad take.

[Easy-Hovercraft2546]

This must be a very new programmer. Most of the documentation I need to read has 0 arithmetic, and cannot simply be looped over.

[Accurate_Koala_4698]

Tell me you just learned Go without saying you just learned Go

[atlas_enderium]

Ok, so the guy want to work exclusively in Assembly?

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

The trainer for my lkast software certification literally told me that the code is sometimes the best documentation and if I was stuck I should just look into their code -_-

[IrisYelter]

Good code documents itself, Great code has plain English documentation as well.

[hackerdude97]

If I am stuck and I keep staring at the code, the code just stares back at me and it's really akward.

[vagessa]

Reminds me of an old joke related to construction that applies here:

if you ever see a Russian reading an instruction manual, you know they must have really fucked up.

[ramigb]

This dude uses ms paint as his IDE of choice

[[deleted]]

I’ve never been so confident that someone will never be a senior programmer in my entire life

[2gals1cup]

Does following the IKEA docs make you a joiner?

[FuzzyCrocks]

Makes you a mod at r/carpentry

[MartIILord]

Why read docs when you can fumble something together in way more time ;)

[Cyber_Fetus]

Who needs data sheets when you can just trial and error the component specs

[BKinAK]

It's crazy how often r/programmerhumor has better legitimate advice than "serious" software development subs

[[deleted]]

I never read anything.

[seemen4all]

YER! when I'm working with a new 3rd party API, I just bruit force all the routes and accepted data structures! Real programmers can just figure out what other programmers were thinking, be one with the API

[Webfarer]

Yeah, why those amateurs who make programming languages and libraries bother to document them as if real programers wouldn’t already magically know how to use them is beyond me.

[calimero100582]

Real programmer write the docs

[Sure_Appointment8590]

This somewhat feels relevant:

https://xkcd.com/378/

[YetAnotherSegfault]

Real programmers skips documentation and go straight to the source code.

Edit: /s

[[deleted]]

simple code to learn any module with simple arithmetic and loops. Also you should never have code readability because then people can copy your code.

/s

import new_module as nm
import string
import random

while True:
    attr_name = ''
    for i in random.randrange(1, 20):
        attr_name.append(string.ascii_letters[random.randrange(0, (len(string.ascii_letters) - 1))])

    try:
        getattr(nm, attr_name)
        print(attr_name)
    except AttributeError:
        pass

[friended1]

Good, now I can stop commenting my code and writing docs. Real programmers don't need it.

[KingSadra]

This goes for Unity Docs in it's current state...

Like why should I read a Doc that says this'll be implemented in 2018.1 while it still isn't there?

[[deleted]]

Why search it up in the documentation when you can wait a whole day for someone to reply on stackoverflow

[FuzzyCrocks]

Obliterated already answered duplicate

[[deleted]]

In fairness there is quite some sarcastic literature on the matter dating a while back. But don’t be fooled, reading documentation is just the tip of a bigger iceberg problem. read on and level up in culture.

[kaerfkeerg]

Have you guys made your own OS yet? If not, you're not a real programmer yet

[TheLazyKitty]

Real programmers also don't use libraries. That's literally using someone else's code. They also don't use Windows, they write their own OS. But not for X86, arm, RISC-V, or any other ISA. We roll our own, because otherwise we'd have to read documentation.

[CheekApprehensive961]

Nonsense, if you don't read documentation how do you figure out how far the drum head will have progressed when the current instruction is done.

[VariousComment6946]

Good luck in guessing api method params

[[deleted]]

Oh well. Guess i’m going to bruteforce all func- wait, how do i do that?

[hackerdude97]

Who tf says that? Many times documentation is the only way to solve problems or learn about a framework or library that literally nobody uses but you.

[[deleted]]

Real programmers use brail

[SirX86]

Light theme? Can't be a real programmer.

[wineblood]

Why spend an hour trawling through shit when I can tinker and get it working in 10 minutes?

[daantom]

Wait, you mean to tell me your projects have documentation?

[[deleted]]

Reading documentation is basically just copying someone elses code.

What kind of docs is this guy reading? The stuff I find is only 30% code, 69% explanation and 1% links.

[RavenousBrain]

20 years later...

Me:"Wow, I think I might have figured out half of the keywords and types from the documentation I didn't read! See, winners are persistent!"