> It was painful to watch them stumble about, trying to debug installation errors that seem obvious to us. Just like trying to watch a lay person try to use a computer, watching these other people made me want to blurt out the answer.
I see that all the time. Programmers aren't necessarily expert computer users.
The number of people on my team that don't use, say, WebStorm's regular expression search & replace to quickly refactor, or find usages, or anything in the refactor menu, or even the NPM scripts I made to quickly update the project -- any of the less obvious features to make their own lives easier is more than half of the team.
And they also like to work on one monitor, maybe two.
Just watching them try to debug something with their cargo cult methodology is frustrating.
Shit, I have people on my team who click Edit -> Copy and Edit -> Paste. Sometimes they might right click and paste, but keyboard shortcuts are foreign to them.
I see that all the time. Programmers aren't necessarily expert computer users.
The number of people on my team that don't use, say, WebStorm's regular expression search & replace to quickly refactor, or find usages, or anything in the refactor menu, or even the NPM scripts I made to quickly update the project -- any of the less obvious features to make their own lives easier is more than half of the team.
And they also like to work on one monitor, maybe two.
Just watching them try to debug something with their cargo cult methodology is frustrating.