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Academic Programmers - A Spotter's Guide

ee.ryerson.ca

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absolutely nobody can use his customised environment, which also suits him because it means he doesn't have to answer questions about it.

Ha ha ha quote for truth with me! Every time someone starts using my computer, I check to see how good my set up is doing based on the number of WTFs per minute.

My setup guarantees that I get at most one:

"WTF...oh...Dvorak. Here, you type."

I find that my swapped CAPS-LOCK and CTRL keys are enough to boggle most people who try to use my machine.

We had keyboards like that in one of my classes last semester. It was really annoying, but it didn't matter too much since the software we used didn't use CTRL-C, CTRL-X, or CTRL-V anyway.

God I hate that! :)

what do you need a capslock for?

Bahaha!

My XMonad setup is pretty crazy. On top of that, I've remapped a bunch of common keys like super, control, caps lock, and escape. I posted a cheat sheet by my monitor and people still refuse to even attempt to use the thing.

I re-read this after the fact and it comes off as being particularly arrogant/ivory tower nerd-ish. I was just trying to demonstrate to 90% of the population my system is unusable. I work in IT and everyone at work thinks it's disgusting.

Lots of great stuff one level above.

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/index.html

Ha ha that's an old bone you dug up there, even so I recognize a few of those personalities in my present-day co-workers.

Hell, I recognize a number of them in myself.

I can definitely relate to "GNU". As a long-time Linux user, I remember the first time I sat down at an OS X machine and wanted to blow away a directory tree. "rm * -rf", I typed. "rm: -rf: No such file or directory", it replied.

I then learned how to build and install the GNU utilities.

I actually did pretty much the same thing. I had a solaris account at school and ended up filling half of my space on the server with gnu utilities because I didn't feel like learning Sun's "almost-right" utilities.

So many of these apply to me it's a bit scary

I dimly remember the days when a megabyte was a large amount. Those were weird times.

Yes, much of this guide is spent being snide about how others are using scarce disk space.

What's it mean when you fit into several of these?

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