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I think tech people underestimate how much people want to print things. My wife is printing stuff all the time. Proofreading things on physical paper is better
by imgabe 2y ago
I think tech people underestimate how much people want to print things. My wife is printing stuff all the time. Proofreading things on physical paper is better than on a screen. You read more carefully and catch more mistakes.
- mananaysiempre 2y agoRereading things works better when they look different, even superficially. Have you ever noticed a bug or typo immediately on a Gerrit/GitHub/etc. code review submission page that you previously overlooked a dozen times in your editor? And scribbling on paper is still unparallelled as a thinking device for rearranging things, catching repetitive turns of phrase, and the like. A tablet with a pen works to some extent, but I cannot surround myself with tablets showing parts of the same document like I can with sheets of paper, and that’s helpful for long-form texts. No word processor with mouse-and-keyboard input can compare.
- ho_schi 2y agoThis. Bonus: We must print. Shipping labels, things which require an actual signature. And so on. And sometimes I want just hang the paper on a wall. Maybe the next print says “Dear macOS users. You’re vulnerable, too. Update now!” Computers aren’t made to avoid printing. Their task is printing faster on more paper. At least this is what happened ^^