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She's got a rubber duck, doesn't she? CP Lounge is a rubber duck as good as any!
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Yes, but it'd be faster to speak to a rubber duck. More time to write code!
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Personally, I use documentation for rubberducking. First writing it down as the elements come to mind; it usually comes out in a rather messy fashion. Then I start organizing all the elements in a proper structure for a user, making bullet lists of highlights, drawing sketches of how data structures relate, writing small code snippets to illustrate the use of what I am implementing.
I took a typing class in 8th grade; that was an essential preparation for a Comp.Sci education, although in 8th grade, I had never seen a computer. So it takes me far less time to write it down once I have created a statement in my head; most of my time "writing", my keyboard is idle (but usually with my fingers hovering over the keys). The typing doesn't take long - making my thoughts clear in my head is what takes time. That I will have to do even if talking to a rubber duck (or in my case: A 10 cm tall rubber Jenkins). One other benefit: Quite frequently, I believe that my first "final" explanation was clear and lucid. Picking it up a few days later, I see that it is still a mess, and I have not addressed, or misunderstood, several aspects. If talking to a rubber duck / Jenkins, there is no memory of the points that are still unclear.
Another benefit: I spend little time writing documentation. It is there already, ready to be delivered with the code.
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Thanks for sharing your novel approach. I try to document code fairly thoroughly as I write it, but that's still quite a ways from what you're doing.
Our typing backgrounds are very similar. I also took it in 8th grade before seeing a computer. So when I took it in 9th grade with an 8th grade classmate, we became fairly proficient. He could do about 60 wpm and I could do about 55, on manual typewriters! Now that correcting errors is so easy, my accuracy has dropped significantly.
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haha that's actually kind of cool.
Michal learned that the object files that CoreTR's AOT (ahead of time) compiler in 2020 can be linked with the 1994 linker from Visual C++ 2.0. The result is native code that links up with Win32s that runs in 16-bit (ish) Windows 3.11. Magical. Kudos Michal.
That's awesome.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Please consider using the "Best Windows of all times" 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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One big advantage is that it probably won't crash 15% of computers with every update, unlike winio.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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3.1 didn't need any update to crash all the time.
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So I've got my little bytecode interpreter, compiler, assembler and disassembler for regular expressions.
I've been playing around with compiler optimization techniques using it and it's so much fun!
I'm so glad I made Lexly. This is some entertaining code.
Right now I'm trying to turn my AST into an NFA, and then do a partial DFA transformation on that to see if I can't render the code from that instead of the AST directly and thereby make it tighter.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Just saw this one on a job posting:
Job post: Must be a team player that works with a sense of urgency.
Okay, there are two translations that come to mind:
1) "works with a sense of urgency" --
Translates to..."Drinks a lot of water but is allowed no restroom breaks" 
2) Must be a team player that works with a sense of urgency -- Translates to, "Don't be griping when we tell you late Friday afternoon that the thing has got to be done by Monday morning!"
Also notice that they are looking for a "team player that" and not a "team player who" which indicates that they think of you as any other piece of office equipment (chair, desk, etc.) since you're a that and not a who.
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Glass half empty
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Glass half empty
Why, yes, of course. It was full, but it was the job posting that poured out the top half.
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Some people think the glass is half empty, other think the glass is half full.
Engineers think the glass is twice as big as necessary.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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LOL. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Technically, the glass is always full.
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Unless it is a quantum glass. Then it is full and empty at the same time.
Da Bomb
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Indeed.
"Sense of urgency" means the boss wants you to feel as stressed out as she does.
Some years ago my wife had a boss who complained she had no sense of urgency, but her co-workers said she "had a calming effect on the office".
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When you're stressed out you're less productive and make more errors.
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Everyone know that. Except inept bosses, of course.
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The hurrier i go, the further behind I get. My grandpa had a sign that said that. 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: her co-workers said she "had a calming effect on the office".
Translation: "I fall asleep whenever I hear her speak"?
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I'm referring you to Assets as your corporate obedience training has not taken and you are defective merchandise.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: your corporate obedience training has not taken and you are defective merchandise
Quite true.
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