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At least as I see my colleagues who buy special keyboards to type code faster and still being hellishly unproductive, deleting and rewriting while I prefer to t

At least as I see my colleagues who buy special keyboards to type code faster and still being hellishly unproductive, deleting and rewriting while I prefer to think before typing and have a solution that works when I type it in instead of iterating over solutions that cannot work in the first place. When I type it's fast, I just don't do it so much compared to my peers, but I am more productive delivering working code. Writing with a pen I tried, but no-one, including me, can read it after...

School-Cotton 3y ago
People buy special keyboards because they enjoy using them, not because they’re faster to type on.
- crabbone 3y ago
  Not if you play videogames, but yeah, for writing code keyboard speed doesn't make a difference.
- anonzzzies 3y ago
  If they tell me they buy them to type faster on then I tend to assume that's the reason.
  - School-Cotton 3y ago
    I think that’s an incorrect assumption. People are often bad at articulating why they enjoy something.
  - deleted 3y ago
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- dmoy 3y ago
  Or sometimes 'cus it's less pain-inducing for the wrists
- doubled112 3y ago
  What baffles me is that some people aren't willing to buy nice peripherals. I don't know about anybody else, but I spend 8-18 hours a day attached to a mouse and keyboard. I'm not going to use one that doesn't feel good to me.
  - a1369209993 3y ago
    Like with most things, the problem is usually that we can't find peripherals that are actually nice, rather than overpriced (and endorsed by shills). If the options are paying 40$ for a shitty keyboard, versus paying 400$ for a still equally (if not more) shitty keyboard, the choice is pretty obvious.
  - foofie 3y ago
    > What baffles me is that some people aren't willing to buy nice peripherals. Buying nice peripherals is like buying nice clothes.
toss1 3y ago
I'm generally with you in terms of think—then—write, and wondering how people can write/type rapidly then endlessly edit. But I do have some modes where it works to write out incomplete thoughts, getting them out of my head, and then edit them into something workable. Perhaps some people just really need to take that to extremes, getting out of their head all their fragmentary or preliminary thoughts, and filtering and working them down on paper or the screen? It generally seems (to me) that a good-heavy amount of thinking first works best and/or is most productive, but overall, we all have different brains, training, and experiences, so I'd go with: "whatever works for you" (but try multiple methods).

School-Cotton 3y ago

People buy special keyboards because they enjoy using them, not because they’re faster to type on.

crabbone 3y ago
Not if you play videogames, but yeah, for writing code keyboard speed doesn't make a difference.
anonzzzies 3y ago
If they tell me they buy them to type faster on then I tend to assume that's the reason.
- School-Cotton 3y ago
  I think that’s an incorrect assumption. People are often bad at articulating why they enjoy something.
- deleted 3y ago
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dmoy 3y ago
Or sometimes 'cus it's less pain-inducing for the wrists
doubled112 3y ago
What baffles me is that some people aren't willing to buy nice peripherals. I don't know about anybody else, but I spend 8-18 hours a day attached to a mouse and keyboard. I'm not going to use one that doesn't feel good to me.
- a1369209993 3y ago
  Like with most things, the problem is usually that we can't find peripherals that are actually nice, rather than overpriced (and endorsed by shills). If the options are paying 40$ for a shitty keyboard, versus paying 400$ for a still equally (if not more) shitty keyboard, the choice is pretty obvious.
- foofie 3y ago
  > What baffles me is that some people aren't willing to buy nice peripherals. Buying nice peripherals is like buying nice clothes.

toss1 3y ago

I'm generally with you in terms of think—then—write, and wondering how people can write/type rapidly then endlessly edit. But I do have some modes where it works to write out incomplete thoughts, getting them out of my head, and then edit them into something workable. Perhaps some people just really need to take that to extremes, getting out of their head all their fragmentary or preliminary thoughts, and filtering and working them down on paper or the screen? It generally seems (to me) that a good-heavy amount of thinking first works best and/or is most productive, but overall, we all have different brains, training, and experiences, so I'd go with: "whatever works for you" (but try multiple methods).