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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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