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Re:Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard? by PeterisP on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @01:10PM (#5519490)
After some incidents in my shool years, I've noticed that I unconciously tend to hit ctrl-s every few dozen keystrokes without even noticing it.

Good software doesn't lose anything ever, but even with "average" (i.e., unacceptably bad if you think about it critically) tools I've had sudden power cuts where I lost just a few words because of this habit.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard? by akanster on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @01:34PM (#5519659)
> After some incidents in my shool years, I've noticed that I unconciously tend to hit ctrl-s every few dozen keystrokes without even noticing it.

That is exactly how I learned too. Years later, ctrl-s is still a reflex action.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard? by lifeisstillgood on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @07:48PM (#5522275)
I realised I have passed some kind of milestone - I read that and thought "search"

Thank you :-)

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard? by stretchwithme on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @03:36PM (#5527530)
Totally necessary when the early PCs would just die on you because you pushed a key.
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