Ask HN: Is it important to know each and every feature of a package?

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Is it important to know each and every feature of a package or can I get away with knowing just the basic uses of it and then google for stuff that I don't know about?

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It is an enormous waste of time to know the majority of features of most packages. Some packages that are "the standard", you will know more than others, but still far from memorizing most of the functionality.

It's just not worth the time. You should focus on the underlying languages since they transcend packages.

Skim the docs. Come away knowing what it can do even if you wouldn’t be able to say off the top of your head exactly how to make it do that. Then go back to the docs or google when you actually need to do those things.

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