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Next someone is going to suggest that we all learn to program by voice: https://www.extrahop.com/community/blog/2014/programming-by-voice-staying-productive-wi

by ryao 10y ago

Next someone is going to suggest that we all learn to program by voice: https://www.extrahop.com/community/blog/2014/programming-by-voice-staying-productive-without-harming-yourself/ https://www.extrahop.com/community/blog/2014/programming-by-... I cannot find the article at the moment, but there was one discussed on hacker news recently that mentioned a privacy device for telephones before the 1950s that achieved the same effect as cupping your hands over the receiver so that others in the room could not hear what you were saying into it. If programming by voice takes off, I imagine such a thing would be a necessity to keep office environments sane. The same goes for regular text input by voice.

zeveb 10y ago
> cannot find the article at the moment, but there was one discussed on hacker news recently that mentioned a privacy device for telephones before the 1950s that achieved the same effect as cupping your hands over the receiver so that others in the room could not hear what you were saying into it. If programming by voice takes off, I imagine such a thing would be a necessity to keep office environments sane. Or maybe we'd all get private offices with decent sound-proofing. Hmmm … that's not going to happen.
melling 10y ago
Well, that person suffers from RSI, so there's a certain group of people who would benefit from it. Here are a group of resources if anyone is interested: https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/programming_by_voice.org https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/progra...
rossjudson 10y ago
Never tried to program with voice, but I did set up Dragon and macros so I could dictate javadoc. That worked pretty well. Since a lot of the language in javadoc is fairly regular, I could work pretty quickly.
schoen 10y ago
I'm sure the device you're thinking of was the Hush-a-Phone, which was also important for competition policy history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone_Corp._v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone_Corp._v._United_S...

by ryao 10y ago

zeveb 10y ago

> cannot find the article at the moment, but there was one discussed on hacker news recently that mentioned a privacy device for telephones before the 1950s that achieved the same effect as cupping your hands over the receiver so that others in the room could not hear what you were saying into it. If programming by voice takes off, I imagine such a thing would be a necessity to keep office environments sane. Or maybe we'd all get private offices with decent sound-proofing. Hmmm … that's not going to happen.

melling 10y ago

Well, that person suffers from RSI, so there's a certain group of people who would benefit from it. Here are a group of resources if anyone is interested: https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/programming_by_voice.org https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/progra...

rossjudson 10y ago

Never tried to program with voice, but I did set up Dragon and macros so I could dictate javadoc. That worked pretty well. Since a lot of the language in javadoc is fairly regular, I could work pretty quickly.

schoen 10y ago

I'm sure the device you're thinking of was the Hush-a-Phone, which was also important for competition policy history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone_Corp._v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone_Corp._v._United_S...