The speed that I type is not related to the quality of my code. I think then type.

I can code real fast. It doesn't compile, but it's fast :)

I'm honestly not even surprised by the number of comments saying how unimportant is the typing speed for a software developer. What a bunch of bullshit. What the heck you've been smoking, friends? Speed of reading and typing text it is absolutely the hallmark of a good programmer. Consuming and producing text is not only about code - code is nothing but structured text.

Software development is not purely technological discipline, we deal with socio-technological problems all the time. That means we need to consume and produce far more plain text rather than just code.

I mean sure, there are many facets to this and simply benchmarking and fretting about one's WPM won't magically make anyone a better programmer. But thinking it isn't important at all ain't right either.

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Picking on SO and the mods in particular is a popular HN pasttime. I'd like to add that I interacted a bit with SO (1k points) and never really had any problems with them. I must be lucky...

Glad to see some love for Wolf3d. It was an important step in the development of the FPS genre, but has always been overshadowed by Doom. As someone who could not play Doom on my 386, Wolfenstein I have many fond memories of this classic. I'm sure I'm not alone!

It probably depends on how young one was, I was young enough to play it for a year or two before Doom appeared (also Doom was kind-of sluggish on my machine at the time).

Fond memories. I remember going to the local YMCA (sub-2000) and going from DOS terminal to DOS terminal typing in (IIRC) `exec wolf3d.exe` and finding one of the few PC's that had it loaded to play it.

I had a similar experience with Quake when it first came out... it felt more like a slideshow on my AMD 5x86 @133mhz w/ 64mb ram and large cache module. My computer was entirely lopsided for games, I got the AMD a few months before a crazy deal on the ram and cache module for it, so I maxed it out. I will say it tore through business apps with OS/2 and later NT4 ran like a champ on that little box.

I couldn't afford the jump to Pentium at the time. I had it for about 4 years or so, until I bumped up to an overclocked Duron at 1ghz around 2000-2001 or so.

Well you could have played Duke Nukem 3D which has semi-3D environments based on real life places.

Oh, I did... ;-)

I wrote an article in a similar vein some years ago that might interest you too:

https://www.rlvision.com/blog/how-long-do-writable-cddvd-las...

Thanks, I read your article and my main reaction is that I'm saddened by the loss of data on those few unreadable discs. I hope it wasn't something you'll need to dig up in a few years.

https://www.rlvision.com and https://www.rlvision.com/blog

> without any compression

Perhaps not compression as we see it today. But one could argue that tile based graphics and code based music is a form of compression. Old games used a myriad of cool tricks to get around their limitations.

Modern coders will most likely never get to enjoy endless rewrites.

Honda Jazz was first called Fitta which is cunt in Swedish.

Don't forget about better filters for influencers talking about the climate crisis!

In the long run, perhaps this will give us a better power grid, just like the dotcom bubble gave rise to broadband?

> it seems intentionally badly trained

This implies that available training code is good. Consider for example how many GitHub repos are students just trying to learn to code.