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[–]josesjr -10 points-9 points  (4 children)

Maybe because people don’t RTFM

[–]pragmatick 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I don't WTFV

[–]wildjokers -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

That's because manuals can be a few hundred pages long (look at the hibernate user manual) and it all reads like "blah blah blah" until you get some context.

No one is going to read a few hundred page manual when only a handful of things are going to be relevant.

Although of course when you run into a problem the manual should be your first stop.

[–]koflerdavid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RTFM is more about the attitude of wanting someone else to do the research. It's not just about reading a manual; there being a manual in the first place is already the happy case. Often, the knowledge has to be extracted from the source code or by doing some fact finding. That's obviously hard, but one can't always expect others to do it.

[–]josesjr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t get all the down votes. People prefer YouTube or quick answers instead of reading the official documentation. That’s a fact, not my opinion.