What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ?

Vcio@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 178 points –

Computer related:

  • Don't be your family computer savy guy, you just found yourself a bunch payless jobs...
  • Long desks are cool and all, but the amount the space they occupy is not worth it.
  • Block work related phone calls at weekends, being disturbed at your leisure for things that could be resolved on Mondays will sour your day.

Buying stuff:

  • There is expensive because of brand and expensive because of material quality, do your research.
  • Buck buying is underrated, save yourself a few bucks, pile that toilet paper until the ceiling is you must.
  • Second hand/broken often means never cleaned, lubricated or with easy fixable problem.
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Read the entire error message very carefully before asking for help, or even searching for a solution.

For folks in tech this means reading and understanding the stack trace, too.

And often it's very easy to understand if you break down the components.

The amount of time of mine that's been wasted on telling people what the error message they came to me with says...