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7thaccount ◴[14 May 25 12:15 UTC] No.43983602[source]▶

Regarding weird development methods of interest...Aaron Hsu of APL fame writes a lot of code in calligraphy with fountain pens when trying to organize his thoughts. I do something kind of similar, but in print with a crummy bic pen and a flow chart of Python objects (kind of like poor man's UML).

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1. sph ◴[14 May 25 16:32 UTC] No.43986476[source]▶

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There is a proven association between hand-writing and memory retention. Taking notes on a computer is like leaving fingerprints on a handrail.

I wish OCR technology got so good that I could only write by hand and have perfect storage and searchability.

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