Re: I paid people to try and follow my README

> But it is really hard to ignore your own biases. Of course you know that certain commands require sudo and obviously when you wrote -foo you meant --foo and everyone knows that you have to reboot afterwards.

I sometimes write readmes for myself, so that I can remember the exact steps to generate a data report, etc.

It's surprising how much they become incomprehensible after just a couple of weeks; when everything's in our head it's all clear, fluid and self-explanatory; but once we have forgotten the context, nothing makes sense anymore.

bambax, 5 hours ago