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Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title

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paddy_m ◴[20 Dec 25 20:29 UTC] No.46339357[source]▶
I wish more programmers would pay attention to how productive power users in different can be with their tools. Look at CAD competitions. I wonder if there are video editting competitions?
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lysace ◴[20 Dec 25 21:06 UTC] No.46339639[source]▶
Programming efficiency isn’t about typing/editing fast - it’s about great decision-making. Although I have seen the combo of both working out very well.

If you focus on fast typing/editing skills to level up, but still have bad decision-making skills, you'll just end up burying yourself (and possibly your team) faster and more decisively. (I have seen that, too.)

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1. etbebl ◴[20 Dec 25 22:38 UTC] No.46340313[source]▶
I interpreted the original comment totally differently - I thought they were saying that the programmers [who created these tools] should pay more attention to how productive [or not] power users can be with the tools [that they created]. And use that as an important metric for software quality. Which I definitely agree with.