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WWW::Mechanize Best Practices | i hack on things

Recently at $work we were discussing some of the behaviours of WWW::Mechanize when submitting forms. For instance, when you pass the fields parameter to the submit_form() method, Mechanize might take a very lax approach to submitting your data. Imagine the following form:

Austin Kleon — TED.com Talks: Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill...
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Amazing 19-minute talk, where Robinson explores the way education in this country values one kind of intelligence: mind over body. One way he explores this is by talking about dancing. I particularly liked this bit about college professors:

Austin Kleon — Clive Thompson, “The Pencil and the Keyboard: How...
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When you teach people to type faster, they get their ideas out. "Transcription influency" - 24wpm is minimum

Typing is great for producing knowledge for other people, say, writing an article. The faster you type, the better your ideas will be. There’s a thing called transcription fluency, which boils down to: “when your fingers can’t move as fast as your thoughts, your ideas suffer.” If you help people increase their typing speed, their thoughts improve. (Learn to type faster.)