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A good (and very thorough) wash later and its as good as new. The best (and loudest) keyboard I use. Its best feature is the little ridge to hold your pencil on top of it---why don't more keyboards have one?
- the :normal command in Vim and Evil. - learning to use tags to navigate code.
But more generally learning how to take something seemingly complex like Linux or Git and then delve in and read the code and understand how it actually works. Learning to read good technical books and manuals and understand how something was designed and how it was designed to be used.
Colleagues think I work magic; in reality I'm just as thick as they are, I just RTFM.
But mostly because Appendix D gives a really succinct description of the language, key functions, all the different parameters to FORMAT and LOOP, and all the different read macros. Never underestimate the value of a good appendix!
Reboot at least once a month holding down the command and option keys to rebuild the desktop files and prevent death!
When someone suggested we "go ask the students" the Profs and Lecturers shot it down saying "they'd only lie". I did go ask some of the undergrads and the reasons almost universally that the prof who taught it in first year was a harsh marker, bad lecturer, and that it wasn't worth losing the credit points in years two onward when they could get a better grade elsewhere and come out with a better degree at the end of it.
The staff don't trust the students and the students want to make sure they get their money's worth; even if it means missing on some important stuff.