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asimovDevtoday at 12:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

https://youtu.be/wKISPePFrIs?si=ahGfFp0U7-pTU9w6&t=43

my go to example of this is this talk by Saqib Shaikh (a blind software engineer at Microsoft) giving a talk about Visual Studio. Link is timestamped


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isityettimetoday at 1:12 PM

I think it takes quite a lot of practice to reach this speed. It's not rare among blind developers, but I think it still takes a lot of work to get there. Pretty impressive!

I wish more people would watch videos like this just because having a realistic idea of how blind people do certain tasks can help you move from pity or even compassion to a more productive kind of understanding. I think sometimes when you haven't seen it, you can't really even imagine how it can be done.

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dijittoday at 1:11 PM

Ho-ly cow. That is very impressive.

I'm not even sure what to say, but discoveries like this are why I use hackernews, I'd never have known this otherwise.

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