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Re:Ask HN: For programming what to actively memorize? by arkis22 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @08:36PM (#23443646)
I memorize what I need to type into google to get the correct Rails API documentation page. Maybe one day I'll memorize the API, but I don't care. APIs change. My productivity limitation is never how quickly I can type the code correctly.

You don't need to know every English word to be a good English speaker.

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Re:Ask HN: For programming what to actively memorize? by cchen408 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @08:54PM (#23443723)
I agree. I almost never actively try to memorize anything, it simply happens through repetition that occurs naturally when writing code.

Remembering how to access the information that you need is pretty much the only thing that needs to be committed to memory.

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