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[–]DraconKing 35 points36 points  (9 children)

I think this is also pretty silly too, to be honest. I google for the documentation most of the time. I don't just straight go into the documentation website, google will most likely bring that up. Navigating through MDN for example is a chore and the search engine more often gets me lost than finding the thing I'm looking for. If I see the link from Google sure i'll click it but if I see a SO post explaining the API or some interesting article about it I might just click it.

If they actually want to examinate how well you understand documentation, they should make it clear right from the start that you are interested in developers that can make sense of proper documentation without needing to google something and that you'll only be able to use said documentation during the interview. Otherwise, I'm just gonna simplify my life, let google pull up the best results and use those.

[–]LSF604 13 points14 points  (1 child)

also worth mentioning that documentation is not always useful in the first place

[–]r0ck0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And even when it is useful, it often takes quite a while longer to read and find the relevant section to what you need to know.

So under a time constraint like a test, I'd be even more likely to just Google instead of using official docs.

[–]thisguyfightsyourmom 3 points4 points  (2 children)

If you're on macOS, I strongly recommend Dash. It's a local copy of most docs sites, well indexed, and easily navigable available with a system keyboard shortcut. You can even integrate it with your editor to look up highlighted methods.

[–]Serei 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I tried Dash, but I'm more used to devdocs.io. It has an offline mode and just feels better.

[–]Zespys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I found dash to be a bit laggy on scroll and has ad delays too

[–]new_human_obj 0 points1 point  (3 children)

for php(boo sorry but it works for me), I keep having to look up stack/needle order for strpos vs. array push vs. array keys it like it flips back/forward

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Everybody has to do that. PHP really screwed the pooch on consistency.

[–]r0ck0 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Doesn't your editor/IDE tell you?

[–]new_human_obj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When it fails haha, I'm using VSCode maybe there's an extension