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Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? by shantly on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @09:35AM (#21921215)
> Most of what programmers do is a lot of navigation and text manipulation correct?

Possibly I'm a terrible programmer, but most of what I do is thinking and looking shit up. Entering or modifying code, and navigating non-linearly within one file is like... a couple percent of what I do on an average day? Maybe 5% tops? Some days it may get as high as 20% of my time. Maybe.

[EDIT] add "communicating", broadly, to the list of things I do a lot of at work that's not editing code.

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Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? by benji-york on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @10:11AM (#21921447)
Yes and no. Feedback cycles are important. It's better for a test to fail than to notice a bug in production. It's also better for you to be able to get that thought from your head to the file in 3 seconds instead of 10.
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Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? by KlayySOC on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @06:58PM (#21925663)
Doesn't a modern IDE with context aware autocomplete help more with that than slightly faster text editing? Perhaps it also depends on what kind of development you're doing
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