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stevemk14ebrtoday at 1:00 AM1 replyview on HN

only reliable way to know how things work is to reverse engineer them


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californicaltoday at 4:26 AM

But that’s my point, it’ll tell you how things work. In libraries I’m using, you can just read the code yourself.

You need the documentation to know why certain things work a particular way, or to know why some relationships or methods are the way they are