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Re:Ask HN: What do you think while developing? on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @08:10PM (#9495832)
From what I've run across, your experience seems quite common. It also seems common that people don't consider what they think while programming.

Do you think that deliberate thought would interfere with coding similar to the guitar?

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