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This is bad because he was 0% productive for many days because he couldn't input text on the computer where the problem was because it didn't have his editor.
by dlsspy 15y ago
This is bad because he was 0% productive for many days because he couldn't input text on the computer where the problem was because it didn't have his editor.
- efsavage 15y agoWe're 0% productive most of the time. Sleeping, commuting, meetings, lunch. Adding a negligible amount more for tooling is not really an issue. I'm essentially dependent on Eclipse when doing Java. It takes me < 1 hour to get it set up the way I like it. For the next 2-3000 hours before I need to set it up again, I will outperform and produce better quality code than anyone using vi or emacs, guaranteed. Sounds like a fair tradeoff to me. Back when I was on a Civil Engineering path, an elderly engineer said "I bet you don't even know how to use a slide rule, what do you do when the power goes out", to which I responded, "I go home, same as you, unless you've got candles in your desk too, and let's not even get into air conditioning".