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I spent a month typing 25wpm one-handed with my other arm in a brace. It was incredibly, incredibly frustrating -- but mostly because of the communication slowdown over irc, email, ticketing systems. (Then, as now, I was in a shared office so voice recognition wasn't really an option.)

Using an IDE (Wing, for Python) that autocompleted locals without having to control-space to ask for completion helped a lot. Right now I'm doing mostly Java, and for some reason none of the big-name IDEs do that that I have been able to find. Kind of ironic given how proud most Java fans are of their IDEs.



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