Its so rough watching non vimmers use vim
a pro vim user watching a vim noob using arrow keys.
- Using “cmd+f” to search terminal buffers instead of
/ - Using
:wqa!and then reopening the editor instead of just using:w - Deleting an entire line by hitting
xrepeatedly - Adding to the end of a like by pressing
iand then the right arrow key until they’re at the end of a line
STOP! You’re scaring the children!
Those last two made me physically recoil wtf
I’ve heard some people even use
:wqover:x….I’ve been using :wq for years…
Repent! Imagine all of the wasted productivity! Ahhhhhhhhh
- Using “cmd+f” to search terminal buffers instead of
Come on. Dude. Give credit where credit is due. SMH…
It’s not SMH, it’s SMBC
SMH = Shaking My Head
It’s an Internet initialism.
I know. Just foolin’ :)
Oh. Sorry about that. Text is not a good medium for tone. xD
Wanna make it worse? Have the dummy user mumble-read EVERY. FRIGGING. WORD.
Older scrum masters during the daily standup and trying to do live updates to the JIRA board
Turned 15 minute meeting into 30 minutes at times lol.
I let my stand-in scrummy drive the TFS board this morning. In adding a PBI to the sprint he typed the iteration manually (a pretty long path name), rather than clicking the context menu and selecting “current iteration”
The millennials are in the absolute worst position tech literacy wise. They had the boomers on one end and the zoomers on the other.
My niece struggled with using a mouse when she was in middle school – her experience with UI was exclusively touch screens prior to that.
The verge had an interesting article on this phenomenon
I’ll add “it’s not their fault”. In the race to make technology intuitive and idiot proof we’ve removed the need to actually learn how technology works past a superficial level.
thats literally my job (web development teacher)
You poor soul.
clicks scrollbar with mouse and drags it, instead of using the scroll wheel
That’s so inefficient. You realize you can scroll using the spacebar?
Fool—the scroll wheel is a scalpel; the scrollbar is a broadsword. Use the right tool for the job.
right click -> copy; right click -> paste
Please tell me your students aren’t making pages that load >5MB of uncompressed javascript and css
of course not, its >5mb of compressed javascript and css
