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If you're a hacker and more than 5% of what you type goes anywhere other than your code repository, you should probably reevaluate what you're doing before you
by j_baker 15y ago
If you're a hacker and more than 5% of what you type goes anywhere other than your code repository, you should probably reevaluate what you're doing before you make it any easier to do it.
You know, I was more than willing to "agree to disagree" until I read this. Sorry, but I just don't buy the idea that I should spend 95% of my time in front of a computer writing code. I don't think it's practical or even preferable.
Writing things other than code is a useful thing for a hacker. It certainly doesn't seem to have hurt pg, does it? Plus, I can't think of very many people whose emails I've read (myself included) who wouldn't benefit from more writing practice.
- lovskogen 15y agoHe wrote 'type', not 'time'. I think there is a huge difference.
- Dylan16807 15y agoHow? The way I see it it just makes things more extreme because you type orders of magnitude more in a ten minute comment than in ten minutes of coding.
- lovskogen 15y ago95% of your computer typing is far less than 95% of all your time.
- TeMPOraL 15y agoBut still, if this 95% of what you type is code, it takes much, much more time to type it than if it was a free-form text. In other words, it means that 'if 99.9% of the time you spend typing isn't spent on typing code, you're doing it wrong'. Or at least I understood it this way.
- reinhardt 15y agoI think you misunderstood; he suggested using a (version controlled) repository to store the 95% of anything you type (emails, docs, blog posts, etc), not spending 95% of your time coding.