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		hi41 on April 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blind since birth, writing code at Amazon since 20... No, I was not sarcastic at all. I admire the programmer. I was just trying to understand something which was far outside my own experiences. I couldn't fathom how he was able to a successful programmer without the tools most of us use during the normal course of the day.

coldtea on April 22, 2018 [–]

Sure, but that's perhaps true for more essential tools: seeing the code, the debugger window, the output, going through logs, etc.

The ability to see diagrams would be quite low in utility.

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