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		bocklund on July 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Bulk of Software Engineering in 2018 Is Just P... In my experience, most people are too afraid to enter the initial `?` in the command line for fear of breaking something. I imagine many would be afraid to do anything with the rench for the same reason. Also, people new to programming and command lines are seemingly incapable of reading error messages.

sobani on July 9, 2018 [–]

> Also, people new to programming and command lines are seemingly incapable of reading error messages.

Aren't all people seemingly incapable of reading error messages? (ignoring the rouding-error-amount of people who do)

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