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[–] 98 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every application kind of needs two modes: a default mode where the user is railroaded into making the right decision, and an "I'm not an idiot and will actually read the documentation before/after trying to make things work" mode. If you stick the toggle for the two modes somewhere that you'd only find by reading the documentation, people will automatically categorize themselves into the mode the ought to be in.

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You actually need proper documentation, though. I've had to read source code to discover or figure out how to use cli flags way too many damn times. (I'm not a real programmer, I just work on infrastructure).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I guess I shouldn't have switched from CS to IT when we got to recursion (I can read it, but I can't write it to save my life)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Thats totally fine for someone learning. Some really good coders i know still cannot explain complicated data structs or complicated topics. Nobody can "measure" you as a "real programmer" anymore, try as they might to replace us with LLM AI. You wrote code? You've been thru it? You've learned a good amount? You're a programmer.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    android does it well, if you want "developer" mode that let's you have better control over your system you have to do some funny IT rituals you can only access by 1. knowing they exist 2. googling how to do it

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Steam OS has kind of the same philosophy too. Normal users can treat it like a switch, only ever downloading from steam, and have a perfectly intuitive experience. But power users still have the options to run other software, customize the os, and even outright replace the os.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Although it's pretty easy to stumble upon some guide that you don't understand that gets you to enable dev mode. Not saying it happens a lot, but there's not a very high bar for the test for enabling dev mode.

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