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deepGem on July 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Command line tools every web dev needs to know

It's perhaps one of the effective filters while hiring. Not just the typing speed, but the general use of command line tools and keyboard shortcuts. Most good developers that I know are masters of the keyboard. They rarely ever touch the mouse.

DennisP on July 24, 2012 [–]

Do you allow them to install their favorite editor?

If someone watched me on Visual Studio without letting me install Viemu first, I'd look like an idiot.

deepGem on July 25, 2012 | [–]

Yep. Whatever editor/IDE they wanna use.

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