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I find it ironic that people who create technology to automate tasks in the lives of others refuse to automate tasks in their own. I recall a group of folks wh
by gills 19y ago
I find it ironic that people who create technology to automate tasks in the lives of others refuse to automate tasks in their own. I recall a group of folks who once refused to use looms because it wasn't as "pure"...
I find syntax highlighting very useful. In fact, I use as much as I can. I want to offload as many mental "maintenance" tasks to the computer as possible, so I can concentrate on the real problems.
- edw519 19y agoI prefer to do the mental maintenance tasks myself. Just like Tiger Woods hits 400 balls a day or Kobe Bryant shoots 1000 shots a day. I know my code like the back of my hand so when I wake up at 3:00 a.m. with a thought, I don't need a listing; I know. Nothing ironic about it.
- gills 19y agoI respect your preference, so I will try to respond with some colloquial form of reasoning. Please forgive the slight abuse of information theory...in general, styled text will have lower entropy than the same un-styled text. Low-entropy text will be more memorable than high-entropy text because it contains more information. It's like a chapter heading in a book - not only is it interesting and informative, the style provides the context that it is a heading and not the first sentence. Re-reading my previous comment, one could misconstrue that my editor looks like a crayon box. It doesn't. I use fairly subtle styles for most parts of the text, with only a select few items in bold or bright styles (keywords, constants). It helps to skews the distribution of what grabs my attention and what does not.
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