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> a common antipattern when trying to figure out what to do is to jump straight to proposing solutions, without forcing everyone to clearly articulate what all the requirements are.

This is a quick way to determine if you're in the wrong team. When you're trying to determine the requirements and the manager/client is evading you. As if you're supposed to magically have all the answers.

> When you’re learning to use a new framework or library, simple uses of the software can be done just by copy pasting code from tutorials and tweaking them as necessary.

I tried to use the guides and code examples instead (if they exists). One thing that helps a lot when the library is complex, is to have a prototype that you can poke at to learn the domain. Very ugly code, but will help to learn where all the pieces are.




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