What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?

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Post by panic » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 2:28 PM UTC

What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
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Post by tenken » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 3:18 PM UTC

Thank you for sharing!

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Post by lawik » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 3:22 PM UTC

Very interesting read. I've spent some time on that particular what-if now and then. I imagine a lot of people making a living at a keyboard do. Glad to hear that, much as I've imagined, it doesn't mean the end of the line. It will make things a lot harder but it doesn't have to be the end of life as someone doing programming.

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Post by delinka » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 3:22 PM UTC

I'd like to start using this so I can pace and code at the same time.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC

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Post by peteretep » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC

I thought this was going to link to “Speaking Perl Outloud” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3JeYfBTcY

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Post by mikestew » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 3:27 PM UTC

Boy, did I misread that headline. I thought it was about hunt-and-peckers, and who cares? Why I know people quadriplegic/missing hands/nervous system problems, and they write code for a living. Turns out, that’s exactly what it’s about. Interesting read to broaden your thinking on who uses your stuff. An encouraging read as well: your life doesn’t end if you can no longer wiggle your fingers in pre-determined patterns.

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Post by dejawu » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 3:27 PM UTC

On the other side of this, I found it very interesting how a programmer who can't see codes using text-to-speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94swlF55tVc

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Post by korijn » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 3:29 PM UTC

The interlude is very familiar.. I have several relatives who have gone through "the fibromyalgia experience". I can totally understand that one responds to what is effectively a refusal to acknowledge that you are actually experiencing pain with curses.

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Post by m12k » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 3:29 PM UTC

That story of how the doctors just dismissed her pain as delusion is terrifying. Doctors are supposed to be people of science, but one of the very fundamentals of science is to acknowledge that you don't know everything, that your current knowledge is just a theory that can be improved upon. I find there's a tendency among doctors to think they know every possible disease, and if someone comes along with one that doesn't fit in their system, they write it off as psychosomatic. They probably get their fair share of actual hypochondriacs, but I'll wager that more than half of the people who are dismissed this way, are actually suffering from a real, but rare or understudied illness.