I am mildly disturbed by this HN thread that seems to suggest there is a large number of programmers who have so little directed high-level planning and short term memory that they need to constantly refer to what their code looked like five minutes ago news.ycombinator.com/item?id=261878
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This is me. I am constantly working around the limits of my attention span. But it makes me a lot more sensitive to, and skilled at, explicitly identifying tacit knowledge and behavioral aspects of programming (once I discover it) to close the gap between memory and action.
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I feel this. Also so much of my life is following my nose… I'm trying to get better at directing my nose so that I crash into the right thing, at the right time. Doesn't always work out, possibly leaving me way off course on a epic, multi-year detour… 😟