A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its promises

Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by AndyNemmity on Friday August 11, 2017 @06:47AM (#14988280)

I don't know many keyboard shortcuts that most of the developers know.

Hell, I spent time stuck on a problem because I had never used code folding before, and couldn't find the import statements I needed to edit.

Would you agree that not understanding code folding is a bit much?

I'm not defending the particular individual, or the situation, only giving some context to my comment.

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Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by mercer on Friday August 11, 2017 @08:59AM (#14989185)

I rarely use code folding. Furthermore, few people other than programmers use code folding.

Not knowing the copy and paste keyboard commands is a completely different realm of incompetence!

But you're right that lots of developers don't know many keyboard commands. I was being a bit too broad. Personally I can't imagine how any programmer would not bother learning keyboard shortcuts (or even better vim keybindings), but I've met plenty who didn't.

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Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by foldr on Saturday August 12, 2017 @08:01AM (#14997555)

It seems odd that someone would not know the copy/paste keyboard shortcuts, but the most likely explanation is that he hadn't figured out that it's Command+C rather than Ctrl+C on the mac.

That being said, while using the 'edit' menu to copy/paste is clumsy, I don't see that it would actually have a significant effect on someone's productivity. So I would not go so far as to say that someone was incompetent just because they did that.

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