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I noticed that whenever I have documentation at the reach of my fingertips (Intellisense, awesome API docs), I'm not going through the effort of really reading the documentation and many times I start cargo-culting.

For instance ... if you need to read the Amazon AWS's docs, maybe you're better off searching for and using something like Boto. If the Boto API is too complex to memorize, maybe you're better off constructing a Facade around it that you can remember without going for the documentation every time you want to open an S3 bucket.

Just saying ... lack of easily accessible documentation leads people to do strange things :-)




He's saying he actually needs to make the API calls, not that he needs to look up the API docs.

If you're building a Facebook app, for example, you need to have Facebook available at all times or it just won't work.




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