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I work with an engineer who is visually challenged and uses emacs with dictation to code. He is a pretty phenomenal engineer.

• Hnrobert42 2y ago
  This makes me realize it must suck to be a mediocre blind developer. The average person is just average. Unless there is something about visual impairment that makes them better at development, then I would expect them to be on average, just average developers. Yet I would guess that visually impaired developers get more scrutiny. If nothing else, just because they are a novelty. Anyhow, I guess I am just reminding myself to treat each person as an individual.
  • jesterswilde 2y ago
    I feel I'm a mediocre blind developer and it does suck, mostly just the blind part though. I do my best not to let my coworkers know I'm blind (I work remotely.) Mostly to avoid either 'cripple porn' or being disregarded. Either way, it's easier.
    • cies 2y ago
      Quite bizar you can hide the fact your blind at work. But yeah, why not, fuck pity.
    • bitwize 2y ago
      I'm "on the spectrum" as they say, and I don't talk about it much; I'm quite concerned with what's called "passing". I want people around me to focus on the things I can do, rather than the things I can't do. Can totally empathize with that someone with a more acute disability than mine, such as blindness, would want to do the same.