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1. cybre:uranther ＃０１２.０１８ (uranther@cybre.space)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 20:17:26 UTC cybre:uranther ＃０１２.０１８

   • Andrew (bookseller era)
   • Chris 💾✒🚀🍕🎮🔧📵💻

   @suetanvil @ajroach42 :thounking: The pace of development may be too frenetic on the whole. An #antifragile system likes small volatility but too much chaos at a local level will disrupt the global state.

   The race for more features and bigger and faster computing devices may have blinded us to the human-centric usability successes. Since it will all be erased in 3 months because "break things fail fast," how cruel to ask for thoughtful documentation to be written.

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   • Kurt Mosiejczuk (kurtm@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 18:31:19 UTC Kurt Mosiejczuk

     • Andrew (bookseller era)

     @ajroach42

     RTFM is only hostile because documentation quality has gotten so poor.

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   • Russ Sharek (russsharek@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 19:57:10 UTC Russ Sharek

     • Andrew (bookseller era)

     @ajroach42

     Brain-melting realization that this means that writing decent documentation, tutorials and FAQs is totally Cyberpunk behavior.

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   • cybre:uranther ＃０１２.０１８ (uranther@cybre.space)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 20:21:26 UTC cybre:uranther ＃０１２.０１８

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     • Andrew (bookseller era)
     • Chris 💾✒🚀🍕🎮🔧📵💻

     @ajroach42 @suetanvil Documentation doesn't make money. Most customers will not bother to read it anyhow because of the distracted culture we live in -- distracted because of the computer-centric competition for our attention ("eyeballs"). It's a vicious cycle --reinforcing negative loop-- that we must break out of by nourishing the balancing loops.

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   • ❦ Billy Blaze ❦ (ckeen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Apr-2018 11:07:19 UTC ❦ Billy Blaze ❦

     • Andrew (bookseller era)

     @ajroach42 One thought that came to mind when reading this again: Although the concepts where foreign, the explanation treats the reader as a grown up human that wants to use a tool. Not as a consumer of some show effect. Also compare the Jupiter ACE manual that explains Forth to the general populace.

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 26-Apr-2018 13:08:05 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • notklaatu
     • Russ Sharek
     • Andrew (bookseller era)
     @russsharek @ajroach42 Not to mention, #hpr episodes and other hacker show episodes. ;-)
     
     @klaatu carefully explaining on GWO how to install NetBSD is basically the most cyberpunk thing right now.