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This ability would be a big time saver during development. I enjoy to develop without Googling; really enjoy! I tried some other amazing things: - developing

by gebt 6y ago

This ability would be a big time saver during development. I enjoy to develop without Googling; really enjoy! I tried some other amazing things: - developing without using touchpad or mouse. - debugging without running code until the end. - developing with turn offed WiFi. In general, I'm always trying to reduce my needs. I think this practices would help me to be more accurate, more independent, and become able to live in a post-apocalypse situation as a geek. I said post-apocalypse, I remembered lcamtuf article "Disaster planning for less crazy folk": https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/ https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

karlicoss 6y ago
Totally agree. It's a practice of resilience, even if you don't do it most of the time (because googling is indeed usually a massive time saver).
- gebt 6y ago
  About googling, I meant to be master of the subject; as when you want to write a for loop and you do not google for that. So not googling is a time saver here.
  - hycaria 6y ago
    Ha, sometimes I forget the for loop syntax, luckily my IDE knows it.
aerovistae 6y ago
I thought this was a joke until I realized you were serious; I was expecting that as I read further into the list it would get to "-develop without using my hands" and "-develop with my eyes closed" (which are legitimate situations for disabled developers, btw) but which would be absurd for anyone to practice under conventional conditions.
- gebt 6y ago
  It's not absurd. At least it improves you mental abilities; as when you try to write using your other hand. p.s. Even occasionally I'm walking closed eyes.
- namelosw 6y ago
  I accidentally find close my eyes while doing things helps. When I'm running I periodically close my eyes and it helps me breathe a lot. When I'm programming I often close my eyes if I know what's the current state and what operations I'm going to do for several following steps, until I lose track of them. It helps me to concentrate and recover my sanity.
- shrimp_emoji 6y ago
  Terrifyingly, losing your hands or eyes is way more likely than experiencing an Internetless apocalypse, so those would be way more germane software survival skills.
theonlybutlet 6y ago
This sounds like those things you do at work when you're bored.

by gebt 6y ago

karlicoss 6y ago

Totally agree. It's a practice of resilience, even if you don't do it most of the time (because googling is indeed usually a massive time saver).

gebt 6y ago
About googling, I meant to be master of the subject; as when you want to write a for loop and you do not google for that. So not googling is a time saver here.
- hycaria 6y ago
  Ha, sometimes I forget the for loop syntax, luckily my IDE knows it.

aerovistae 6y ago

I thought this was a joke until I realized you were serious; I was expecting that as I read further into the list it would get to "-develop without using my hands" and "-develop with my eyes closed" (which are legitimate situations for disabled developers, btw) but which would be absurd for anyone to practice under conventional conditions.

gebt 6y ago
It's not absurd. At least it improves you mental abilities; as when you try to write using your other hand. p.s. Even occasionally I'm walking closed eyes.
namelosw 6y ago
I accidentally find close my eyes while doing things helps. When I'm running I periodically close my eyes and it helps me breathe a lot. When I'm programming I often close my eyes if I know what's the current state and what operations I'm going to do for several following steps, until I lose track of them. It helps me to concentrate and recover my sanity.
shrimp_emoji 6y ago
Terrifyingly, losing your hands or eyes is way more likely than experiencing an Internetless apocalypse, so those would be way more germane software survival skills.

theonlybutlet 6y ago

This sounds like those things you do at work when you're bored.