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This ability would be a big time saver during development.

I enjoy to develop without Googling; really enjoy!

I tried some other amazing things:

- developing without using touchpad or mouse.

- debugging without running code until the end.

- developing with turn offed WiFi.

In general, I'm always trying to reduce my needs.

I think this practices would help me to be more accurate, more independent, and become able to live in a post-apocalypse situation as a geek.

I said post-apocalypse, I remembered lcamtuf article "Disaster planning for less crazy folk": https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

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I thought this was a joke until I realized you were serious; I was expecting that as I read further into the list it would get to "-develop without using my hands" and "-develop with my eyes closed" (which are legitimate situations for disabled developers, btw) but which would be absurd for anyone to practice under conventional conditions.

It's not absurd. At least it improves you mental abilities; as when you try to write using your other hand.

p.s. Even occasionally I'm walking closed eyes.

I accidentally find close my eyes while doing things helps.

When I'm running I periodically close my eyes and it helps me breathe a lot.

When I'm programming I often close my eyes if I know what's the current state and what operations I'm going to do for several following steps, until I lose track of them. It helps me to concentrate and recover my sanity.

Terrifyingly, losing your hands or eyes is way more likely than experiencing an Internetless apocalypse, so those would be way more germane software survival skills.

Totally agree. It's a practice of resilience, even if you don't do it most of the time (because googling is indeed usually a massive time saver).

About googling, I meant to be master of the subject; as when you want to write a for loop and you do not google for that.

So not googling is a time saver here.

Ha, sometimes I forget the for loop syntax, luckily my IDE knows it.

This sounds like those things you do at work when you're bored.

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