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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips? by naavis on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:13PM (#23119529)
One thing I worry about with these extremely customized keyboard configs and such is that once you get used to them, you will have a hard time using any other computer when you suddenly need to. Maybe this isn't such a big problem with physical keyboards, but can be with e.g. text editor configs, which you can't take along if you need to SSH into many servers during a workday and work with whatever is installed there.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips? by mekster on Saturday May 09, 2020 @11:18AM (#23125379)
I always find this argument nonsense. Most people will be on their computer for 99% of the time and sacrificing for the rest of 1% doesn't make sense. I had a colleague who had been using vim without customization because of that reason and he's always on his computer but I find the reasoning very odd.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips? by nikivi on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:14PM (#23119545)
I have a bind to turn off all my binds if anyone else wants to use my computer.

And I can still use other people's computers although with some pain.

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips? by chadlavi on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:37PM (#23119781)
as a caps-to-ctrl remapper, I can't imagine how crippling it would be to have serious remaps or Dvorak or something and try to use someone else's keyboard. Doesn't seem worth it.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips? by winkeltripel on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:55PM (#23121179)
A buddy of mine uses dvorak with a qwerty keyboard and an inline usb switch to engage dvorak. Pair programming and everything.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips? by NateEag on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:46AM (#23165854)
I actually got used to it pretty quickly. Adapting was not hard.

It's a little like how learning more instruments doesn't make you worse at the ones you know.