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I would buy that, but does it really matter?
Yes. Fundamentally we're talking about being able to communicate - anything that restricts your ability to communicate with your coworkers definitely matters.
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If the issue is really important, there should be a voice call. If it's not, does it matter if they contribute less? If they have something actually important to say, they'll say it.
We only have a real meeting if there is something useful to discuss in person - often we can reach consensus w/o one. But sure, major issues are generally discussed over a larger length of time and everybody can contribute.
But there are other situations where its super duper important.
We run outages from slack. Often there is a meeting/call as well, but slack is often the center stage. People that can't type fast can't contribute as much in these situations. There's also lots of day-to-day decisions that get made by the people that 'show up'.
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Whenever I see someone complain that other programmers don't comment code enough, I pretty much ignore everything else they have to say. Good code should usually only need sparse commenting, and people that insist on heavy commenting are the enemies of productivity and maintainability.
He's actually not arguing for heavy commenting. Nor do I think that he is explicitly talking about using language comments (which still have an important place). People that type slowly are less likely to leave comments AND less likely to refactor their code to make it readable and understandable.
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The bit about them not formatting code also made me lol. Does this guy use an IDE? I mean the post is 2008, so maybe that has something to do with it, but it reads like it's from 1998.
There's still important formatting you should do even with an IDE. But, uh, sure. It's probably not that important for many people/languages. (And note that he was talking about "the ones who essentially type with their elbows")
As a meta point - I'll point out once again that people that just go "LOL that blog was terrible!!!!" are doing themselves a great disservice. Its clear from your response here that you could have learned something from it.
And an attitude like "Whenever I see someone complain that other programmers don't comment code enough, I pretty much ignore everything else they have to say" is also a pretty big disservice. Nobody in life is perfect, so if you ignore everything from someone that says something wrong to you... well, that's tough.