🌟 🚴🏽 🛀🏾 Googled too? 🌓 🕔 🏢

When I got a new job, my colleagues, looking at my monitor, asked an unexpected question - "Do you google too?"

At that moment I felt a little uncomfortable. It feels like I came to the theater, went on stage in complete darkness and began to google.

But then we got used a little bit, and this sin was forgiven me. As it turned out, everyone is googling, but some are embarrassed to admit it or consider googling a vice, a sign of unprofessionalism.

Does anyone else remember the pre-google era? When computers were large, phones were small, and abstracts were downloaded from UUE to echo-conferencing?

When man pages were pages, not 50-sheet manuscripts of long text, and the Technet library fit on two CDs (650Mb each).

How then was the availability of information? But it was like that.

Many products were at the very beginning of their life journey. When Microsoft released Windows 2000, the whole breakthrough was inside one of the most important components - Active Directory.
All other components of the operating system were just a bundle around it, and the functionality was very modest. They could be sorted out. The products were sophisticated but finite. Today, any server role is a separate world in which you can disappear forever.

In these glorious years at Microsoft, engineers were held in high esteem, and understanding of the principles of the product, technology, was put above the skill of an art click.

You could go to an authorized course and really learn and understand.

You could open the Technet library and read a detailed description of the technology or Whitepaper.

Product teams ran blogs, their information was invaluable, reference, whole systems were tuned for one such article.

As a result, when you saw a person's paper like MCSE, CCNA, there was something to think about. He passed a difficult test despite the lack of wide public knowledge, the high price of courses. No dumps. The cost of exam track could be a salary for six months.
What now?

At some point, much has changed. Products have become more complicated by an order of magnitude, while Microsoft has no need for engineers. "Developers, developers, developers!" Yes, friends, you won, but we are not leaving anywhere.

So about 5 years ago, many were fired from Microsoftgrocery technical writers and quality rolled yourself know where.

Modern vendor courses are dummies.

Do you know what I read instead of whitepaper? patents.google.com with a description of the technology, trying to link multiple patents into the final product. Patents, Carl!

Product blogs, yes, this is the last thing that has not yet died out. Nothing can force a person to abandon self-expression, and because of this, we have for many years been able to read smartly written articles with secret knowledge that will not be included in official documentation.
Microsoft has been trying to get rid of this creative for many years by replacing 3 blog platforms in my memory. And each time, product teams must themselves transfer content between them. Imagine, a man wrote, invested himself, then a new class manager came and said - the design is not the same.
Because "Come on a new Misha, all garbage."

What about exams, certifications? This all depreciated, and the tracks and status are shaken up every three years beyond recognition.

Back to the main question. When the documentation leaves much to be desired, the courses do not provide secret knowledge, and the product group is silent, we humans help each other.
Forums and blogs have always existed, but now they have become almost the last bastion. A means of survival in opposing directional stupidity by vendors.

There is a technical problem, and what are we doing? We think, analyze, collect facts. And google. And from the search engine spills on us.

Oh, not the light of Truth at all.

And some nonsense.

In the forum, people asked essentially, and they poured "standard tips" into their ears.
Rebooting is no longer in fashion, let's do sfc / scannow, dism / restorehealth, and another million copies of these commands for each one. For any question, even if DNSSEC does not work for you.

We were waiting for answers, but received a ton of information garbage. We found an article on Habré about technology, and there is some nonsense.

What to do? To despair? Write an angry post about the fact that the Internet is not the same, but Habr is not a cake?

And you need to google further. And we google. We filter out nonsense and wrecking. We are looking for similar problems. We are looking for the exact same ones. Or we understand that we are faced with something unique. Among tons of delirium, informational garbage, we find these grains of Truth. Among hundreds of dummies, we find messages from those who understand.

And now googling is part of our work. It is an important professional skill to extract information from noise. From garbage - pearls of meaning.

We google in order to use the knowledge of our brothers in arms. Like us. Those who are better than us are smarter than us, more persistent than us.

But we must not remain in debt. We also write in forums, share finds. We are writing articles. We have blogs. We comment, correct, supplement, explain. Share.

So we all move the industry forward together.

And google. There we find each other.

Googled too?

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