Reviewing the worst piece of code ever

Re:Reviewing the worst piece of code ever by onionisafruit on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:03AM (#24028770)

That’s what I felt like when ai joined a company that issued me a macbook for the first time. There’s nothing quite like demonstrating your code to somebody and having the conversation turn into a tutorial on cmd vs ctrl keys. It was probably only a week or two before I had it mostly worked out, but the imposter syndrome was pretty bad for a while. I can imagine falling into the same trap as the fellow in your story if I had trouble with the code too. At some point you start thinking that anything you say will out you so you just shut up and hope to delay the inevitable.

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Re:Reviewing the worst piece of code ever by noir_lord on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:49AM (#24034575)

Happened to me at the start of the year, I chose macbook because reviews on 16" keyboard said not horrible and the rest of the team where already on it (and I had juniors to support).

I resolved from day one to not fight the machine into behaving like Fedora instead learning the actual shortcuts (and I installed Rectangle).

It took about a week before I was comfortable and a lot of that was remapping my IDE since I have extensive altered keybindings and shortcut keywords for that on linux.

Once I accept it was just a unix with a different DE it wasn't so bad, messes me up more the other way I keep hitting alt+C etc on linux now.

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Re:Reviewing the worst piece of code ever by CM30 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:53PM (#24031653)

Same here. Started a company where employees had Macbooks to work on, and was all kinds of lost for the first few weeks because of it.

Then again, that's still a problem even now, since switching between a PC and Mac on a fairly regular basis still leaves me a tad confused about the shortcuts and key bindings.

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Re:Reviewing the worst piece of code ever by agustif on Sunday August 02, 2020 @12:02PM (#24029469)

Been the same for me using a Windows PC on work having a Mac home.

having different keymappings in different machines is hard

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Re:Reviewing the worst piece of code ever by RulerOf on Sunday August 02, 2020 @02:49PM (#24030640)

I was okay when I had the proper keyboard in front of me, but I still stumble with reflexively using the correct keys for shortcuts when I'm remote controlling one from the other.

I've found it very difficult to use Ctrl+C to copy from Windows and then Cmd+V to paste on Mac OS without pretty frequently using the wrong modifier key.

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Re:Reviewing the worst piece of code ever by agustif on Sunday August 02, 2020 @03:03PM (#24030761)

Also, Hyper.app has ctrl+shift+v/c for copy paste, Git-ui has some weird shit like alt-shift-fn-c/v too LOL...

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Re:Reviewing the worst piece of code ever by mercer on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:57AM (#24034870)

This guy truly just didn't know about keyboard shortcuts in general!

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