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> why would a professional programmer not want to invest the time to learn to type properly: typing fast boosts your productivity significantly. I have not fou

• usefulcat 4y ago
  This is true, but from what I've seen, not being able to touch type may also be a serious impediment to written communication. Maybe not so much for email, but very much so for anything ~real time like slack/chat. I once worked (mostly remotely) with a guy who I'm pretty sure couldn't touch type. He wrote pretty dense code and used very abbreviated class/variable/method names. But the real clue came from communicating with him via slack. It often felt like talking to someone much less intelligent than I knew him to be. His messages were so terse that I was constantly having to make a lot of guesses about what he was trying to say. Needless to say, it was not a great working relationship.
  • kylestlb 4y ago
    wait a second, is this why i typically send 10 messages per 1 coherent thought? i learned how to type too well?
• jimbokun 4y ago
  It certainly helps to reduce latency of being able to test out your thoughts, which can be very useful for staying in a good flow state. Of course it doesn’t help at all if you have a long build or deploy process before you can see the outcome of your changes.