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Thanks for sending; this is really interesting. It confirms what I've
noticed about how developers work and search documentation.
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Andrew Harvie <withanie -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I see that the folks over at SlashDot have noticed the existence of
> documentation:
>
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>http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/03/05/1755216/developers-may-be-getting-50-of-their-documentation-from-stack-overflow
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> TFA (to use their term) doesn't have anything that we don't already know -
> Anne Gentle pointed it out in her book (Conversation and Community). What I
> found interesting was to read the comments from the SlashDot community,
> many of whom are developers. In short, they want better examples with their
> API notes.
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