I often use only the curser to code. I prefer to drag and drop letters from a virtual keyboard into my IDE.
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I used to work with a guy who would, genuinely, use the mouse to copy and paste individual characters.
I worked with a diplomated software engineer and that idiot couldn't even set up his own computer.
This whole branche is cursed...
s/diplomated/graduate/
s/branche/industry (sector)/
Yeah... Thanks
English isn't my first language and it's Friday, I'm everything but sober
Prost! 🍻
I do most of my cursing during preliminary test...
Original tweet
Why is the 🫣 emoji censored?
It reminds people that negative things exist and that isn't good for business.
Psychopatl is a word from nahuatl?
only in the uto-aztecan dialects. lol
The poor sap was probably trying to get the wifi working :/.
You mean like we all did if you’re like me and started writing code in late 80s to mid 2000s?
Fucking amateurs…
Yeah, but to fair, we had comprehensive manuals.
I remember these.…
And …
And…
And now, this:
For the Atari ST, although I actually preferred Hisoft Basic.
had comprehensive manuals
You must not have coded for DOS.
At home, Atari ST and at work IBM System/38 where the manuals had their own office.
I had an Atari 800, and the manual for it was pretty complete.
At office in 1991 I started programming for IBM PCs in DOS, that was a big step into the void.
In the late 80s there were no man pages, we had a 50 page paper manual - and it was mostly useless.
Two scenarios:
A) nixCraft could tell it's vim from a mere look – in which case they're a "psychopath" themselves.
B) this is completely made up.
C) It's an obvious joke.
This is the way
~~Which app is this? Never seen the chat icon at the bottom in fediverse clients.~~ didn't know nixcraft was on twitter
I saw this on Mastodon if that helps
Poes law is hard at work here