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My favorite times when playing secretary, where I am simply typing something someone is telling me to type to add/fix/modify/optimize/you-name-it, are those inevitable moments when the person telling me to type says 'add x' meaning to type an x and I type '+x'. For some reason it always makes me laugh because it dawns on me that I'm not absorbing anything - I am simply putting someone else's brain dump into logical (or illogical) code.

My goal is always to go back and learn from what they just told me to type, however all too often time gets away from me and I don't go back to analyze anything.

White boarding, taking a little longer to understand what I'm being told, helps me to learn new skills and also is necessary for when I need to go back to the script for any reason.

In reply to Re^3: Don't go all PerlMonks on me by dana
in thread Don't go all PerlMonks on me by bobf

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