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Documentationsupport fixes
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lydiapintscher committed Feb 26, 2012
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I started reading the book and to my surprise the definition of hacker was
``someone who likes solving problems and overcoming limits''. It also said
``hackers build things, crackers break them.'' Alas I wanted to be a cracker but
``hackers build things, crackers break them.'' Alas I wanted to be a cracker, but
this book brought me to the other world of hacking. I kept reading the book and
encountered various new terms like GNU/Linux, mailing list, Linux user group,
IRC, Python and many more.
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One fine day I got an email about a monthly Linux user group meetup. I
needed answers for my many questions. I met Karunakar there and he
asked me to bring my computer to his office as he had the whole Debian
repository available there. Debian was new for me but I was
repository available there. Debian was new for me, but I was
satisfied with the fact that finally I will be able to play music on
Linux. The next day I was in his office after carrying my computer on the
over-crowded bus -- it was fun. In a few hours, Debian was up and running on my
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many others for sure. After all these years in the Free Software
community, I have realized documentation is the key for participation
of newbies in this awesome Open Source community. My 1\$ advice to all
developers would be to please document even the smallest work you do as the world
is full of newbies who would love to read it. My blog has even simple
postings like enabling the spell checker in OpenOffice to installing Django
in a virtual environment.
developers would be: please document even the smallest work you do as the world
is full of newbies who would love to understand it. My blog has a wide range of
postings, from simple ones like enabling the spell checker in OpenOffice
to ones about installing Django in a virtual environment.
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\section*{Patience}
There is a tendency in the technical documentation world to be impatient and
belligerent. The sources of this impatience are numerous. Some people feel that,
since they had to work hard to figure this stuff out, you should to. Many of us
since they had to work hard to figure this stuff out, you should too. Many of us
in the technical world are self-taught, and we have very little patience for
people who come after us and want a quick road to success.

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