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honestly the real patriarchy is that nobody has invented a drug to make me more interested in learning programming yet

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Feb 1, 2022

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I do feel like ppl who know how to program have forgotten about all the intuitive knowledge they have that helps. I have tried a few times to learn and rapidly get stuck on a confusion that no programming forum addresses because it's too basic

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100000% yes i keep running into this problem

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i would absolutely fucking join a chat where half of us are people with the stupidest basic questions and the other half are people happy to explain with short turnaround time

8:56 PM · Feb 1, 2022

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Do you think it might work to post these questions on twitter, or would the signal to noise be too annoying?

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i'm usually hesitant to post stuff like that to twitter cause i don't want to bother people who don't care

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Too many programmers in the chat would probably devolve into pedantic wars over tiny details and create more confusion than clarity.

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I feel many Knowers would be happy to join something like this (I might for my areas of expertise) but there would be problems of social dynamics and threat of the Mansplaining Label.

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There are many many groups like this actually!! For example, here is the typescript discord. I recently had a question and it was answered within minutes. discord.com/invite/typescr There are others for pretty much every language, and even groups for specific apis/sdks