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This reminds me of Steve Yegge's classic blog post "Programming's dirtiest little secret"[0]. Yegge's post is of course about touch-typing, but it essentially m

This reminds me of Steve Yegge's classic blog post "Programming's dirtiest little secret"[0]. Yegge's post is of course about touch-typing, but it essentially makes the same argument. Doing things slowly is a liability, not primarily because it consumes more time, but because it makes you opt out of doing certain things because of their perceived cost. [0] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtiest-little-secret.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties...

neom 3y ago
"You'd be absolutely astonishedly flabbergasted at how many programmers don't know how to READ. I'm dead serious. You can learn to speed read even faster than you can learn to type, and yet there are tons of programmers out there who are unable to even skim this blog. They try, but unlike speed readers, these folks don't actually pick up the content." Heh!