Some Times I Crack Myself Up!

tonylong wrote in post #16950035
Well, at least a number of people have seen this thread, and someone may even have some insight as to why those dang Ctl-xx keyboard shortcuts don't work!...?

Maybe they are like finding shortcuts on a map, they are always longer because they go wrong.

20droger wrote in post #16951113
Have you ever considered that the ctrl=xx shortcuts may work fine, that it's your fingers that don't work so well?

My shortcuts always work for me.

Hmm, hey, just because I've admitted to having developed "bumbling fingers" doesn't make me totally dense! I just tried Ctl-i, Ctl-b and Ctl-u in the broad daylight and with my eyes wide open, still no dice! I haven't tried it on another browser, but anyway...

JAZZ D.P.G. wrote in post #16951903
Maybe they are like finding shortcuts on a map, they are always longer because they go wrong.

Heh! I'm typically good with using maps and getting out and about and such and a good sense of direction, but one day last year a housemate grabbed me to take off to an area that I wasn't familiar with, and hadn't had any view in Google Maps, we headed off down a trail into the woods, then she decided to go a bit off and expected me to get us back to our starting point, which I was able to do, except we were off enough to require a couple miles to get back!

And eventually you will probably program on Linux..... And then you're gonna try to type on vi or emacs.

Good luck. That sht is evil.

Xyclopx wrote in post #16971973
And eventually you will probably program on Linux..... And then you're gonna try to type on vi or emacs.

Good luck. That sht is evil.

Heh! I was a Unix programmer for a number of years, hey, that was a programmer's playground!

Talk about "fallen faces" -- the day came when our group was told we had to start programming for Windows and we had to use the then-new Visual Basic for Windows programming "language" (this for a bunch of hard-core C programmers), boy we all were walking around in a daze for quite some time.

Fortunately, I had begun "cutting my teeth" doing some early (for us) Windows programming -- I had been working with the Visual C++ platform, and since I had worked with C++, I was able to get a handle on it, but Visual Basic was a whole other animal to get up to speed on!

My specialty was Assembly. I cut my teeth on the 8008 and progressed up from there.

After all, there are only 10 kinds of programmers: those who think in binary; and those who don't.

I've never had a typo

20droger wrote in post #16972204
My specialty was Assembly. I cut my teeth on the 8008 and progressed up from there.

After all, there are only 10 kinds of programmers: those who think in binary; and those who don't.

Ah, yes, actually before I got into the Unix world, my first "job" programming was on an old IBM 80xx back in '89. I actually did most of the programming in C, but I was creating an app with graphics, and the C was just too slow, so I did some subroutines with assembly language and they noticeably sped things up!

Ah, but my first actual experience with that stuff was back in the '70s when I picked up one of the little Atari machines that had keyboards as well as slots for games. I used to buy magazines where they published machine language code that you could type in and run a real game! After that, at least assembly language was a "piece of cake"!

Fricks wrote in post #16972218
I've never had a typo

But isn't Frickish sort of all typos?

20droger wrote in post #16972433
But isn't Frickish sort of all typos?

Yeah, well, how about "20droger"? If I try to type that out, well, I can be all over the map!

Touch typing can have it's disadvantages - like realizing that you have spent the last 10 minutes one step shifted on the keyboard. That's quite a lot of text looking like it has been encrypted.

Extra fun when in a hurry to finish, and wondering if it's faster to retype or write a C program to unshift the keys.

50wpm? What metric - assuming 5 character words? When I did take type writing a long while ago, the test was for 900 characters in 3 minutes, with 100 characters off for each spelling error. The bad thing with computers, is that it doesn't cost hardly anything to spell wrong since it's a single key press to erase - that leads to too lazy writing.

tonylong wrote in post #16973309
Yeah, well, how about "20droger"? If I try to type that out, well, I can be all over the map!

Some of us have more pronounced handicaps than others....

pwm2 wrote in post #16973347
Touch typing can have it's disadvantages - like realizing that you have spent the last 10 minutes one step shifted on the keyboard. That's quite a lot of text looking like it has been encrypted.

Extra fun when in a hurry to finish, and wondering if it's faster to retype or write a C program to unshift the keys.

50wpm? What metric - assuming 5 character words? When I did take type writing a long while ago, the test was for 900 characters in 3 minutes, with 100 characters off for each spelling error. The bad thing with computers, is that it doesn't cost hardly anything to spell wrong since it's a single key press to erase - that leads to too lazy writing.

And that's not the only thing bad about computers.

Computers are tools of the Devil! Just think how often they cause you to speak strongly to the Lord!

tonylong wrote in post #16973309
Yeah, well, how about "20droger"? If I try to type that out, well, I can be all over the map!

Are you casting animadversions upon my moniker?

pwm2 wrote in post #16973347
Touch typing can have it's disadvantages - like realizing that you have spent the last 10 minutes one step shifted on the keyboard. That's quite a lot of text looking like it has been encrypted.

Extra fun when in a hurry to finish, and wondering if it's faster to retype or write a C program to unshift the keys.

50wpm? What metric - assuming 5 character words? When I did take type writing a long while ago, the test was for 900 characters in 3 minutes, with 100 characters off for each spelling error. The bad thing with computers, is that it doesn't cost hardly anything to spell wrong since it's a single key press to erase - that leads to too lazy writing.

Well, it's been a while, but I recall the "test" was the old "quick brown fox" sentence where you used all the alphabet keys, although some variety of that would come into play...and hey, I typed all this out by "touch" and made only two typos!

20droger wrote in post #16973478
Are you casting animadversions upon my moniker?

Why Rog, who am I to "cast animadversions"? Some kind of bum?

Err, never mind...

Besides, 20DRoger, I mean, 20droger, I think your "name" is just fine!