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by shiroiuma 972 days ago
Even with those problems, those are still far better than the (complete lack of) documentation I see in software workplaces these days.
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In fairness to the workplaces that I've been in, documentation for a software stack, or even the product, from 18 months ago may as well be in Swahili for as much good as it would do any new member to the team

Just like the comparison to code quality I often see is any such NASA thread: it's a whole different ballgame when one is sending a spacecraft out, or carrying lives to space, than "I tried to send a Slack message and it did a sowweee,oopsiez"