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I spend maybe 90-95% of my time thinking, looking up existing code, reading documentation, solutions, and code exemplars online, and trying to engineer a soluti

I spend maybe 90-95% of my time thinking, looking up existing code, reading documentation, solutions, and code exemplars online, and trying to engineer a solution either in my head or on paper. I spend at most 10% actually typing. It's just not something that I've really ever felt has slowed me down.

nouveaux 2y ago
As a modern day tech person, you only spend 4 hours a week on your keyboard across browsers, email, messaging, command line, etc? What about your personal life? Even then, learning Vim could improve your computer interactions easily by 10%. That's 40 min a week or ~34 hours in a year. https://xkcd.com/1205/ https://xkcd.com/1205/
- delta_p_delta_x 2y ago
  I mean during my work hours I spend the majority of my time reading and thinking rather than programming. In my personal life I try not to program. I do other things.
liontwist 2y ago
Did you look at the article?
- delta_p_delta_x 2y ago
  I did. I disagree with the premises, the (rather exaggerated) examples given, and furthermore the author's situation appears very different compared to mine. I am a very junior developer. The codebase I work on is established and if I ever make edits, it's confined to a handful of lines. It takes a long time for me to understand and parse an existing code base. I am unlikely to ever do the sort of text-slinging that Vim users tend to demonstrate on YouTube. I move between work and home, and I type on different keyboards with different physical layouts. At the end of work I am so physically and mentally exhausted that I couldn't give two hoots whether I used Vim, VS Code, or the trendy modal AI-augmented editor written in Rust. I just want to get dinner, flop onto my bed, text some friends and get sleep. I have a couple of blog-posts that I've been sitting on for months because I haven't had the time nor energy to sit and write them, even at weekends. Given all this, learning to use Vim is just another drag. Oh, and I should mention—I am exceptionally lazy. I'm not the so-called 'smart lazy' type of person. I'm lazier than that. I simply don't do stuff if I can afford not to. The author suggests I now profile my own typing to speed it up? I frankly couldn't be bothered. I type reasonably fast anyway and Vim isn't going to speed things up at all.
  - liontwist 2y ago
    > I just want to get dinner, flop onto my bed, text some friends and get sleep. Sorry, I was using the assumption you were looking to improve your craft and make great contributions.
    - delta_p_delta_x 2y ago
      Could your horse be any higher?
      - liontwist 2y ago
        If you’re happy with where you are at why would you want to learn something new like vim?

nouveaux 2y ago

As a modern day tech person, you only spend 4 hours a week on your keyboard across browsers, email, messaging, command line, etc? What about your personal life? Even then, learning Vim could improve your computer interactions easily by 10%. That's 40 min a week or ~34 hours in a year. https://xkcd.com/1205/ https://xkcd.com/1205/

delta_p_delta_x 2y ago
I mean during my work hours I spend the majority of my time reading and thinking rather than programming. In my personal life I try not to program. I do other things.

liontwist 2y ago

Did you look at the article?

delta_p_delta_x 2y ago
I did. I disagree with the premises, the (rather exaggerated) examples given, and furthermore the author's situation appears very different compared to mine. I am a very junior developer. The codebase I work on is established and if I ever make edits, it's confined to a handful of lines. It takes a long time for me to understand and parse an existing code base. I am unlikely to ever do the sort of text-slinging that Vim users tend to demonstrate on YouTube. I move between work and home, and I type on different keyboards with different physical layouts. At the end of work I am so physically and mentally exhausted that I couldn't give two hoots whether I used Vim, VS Code, or the trendy modal AI-augmented editor written in Rust. I just want to get dinner, flop onto my bed, text some friends and get sleep. I have a couple of blog-posts that I've been sitting on for months because I haven't had the time nor energy to sit and write them, even at weekends. Given all this, learning to use Vim is just another drag. Oh, and I should mention—I am exceptionally lazy. I'm not the so-called 'smart lazy' type of person. I'm lazier than that. I simply don't do stuff if I can afford not to. The author suggests I now profile my own typing to speed it up? I frankly couldn't be bothered. I type reasonably fast anyway and Vim isn't going to speed things up at all.
- liontwist 2y ago
  > I just want to get dinner, flop onto my bed, text some friends and get sleep. Sorry, I was using the assumption you were looking to improve your craft and make great contributions.
  - delta_p_delta_x 2y ago
    Could your horse be any higher?
    - liontwist 2y ago
      If you’re happy with where you are at why would you want to learn something new like vim?