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[@TusharSelvakumar]

That Doc comment aged well lmfao

[@snaccmuffin9491]

I was gonna say lmaooo

[@bkrxiii]

Me too 😅😅

[@pita-𰽱]

lol

[@a_lethe_ion]

Doc and stallman clearly share opinions

[@boredsherbet]

litterally scrolled to the comments for this

[@FATTMONSTER]

3:39 Yes the Doctor wont be streaming anymore

[@un9286]

he's streaming again...

[@FrederikSchumacher]

He did the mandatory classic EMACS dunk, but he didn't do the mandatory classic VIM dunk: VIM has two modes, one that beeps, and one that breaks your file.

[@arabiancandybar]

My life is already broken. There are no downsides.

[@RenderingUser]

bro re-equipped the blue hair again

[@BlackFoliageVol1]

Is he rocking a filter? Real > all

[@ivanjelenic5627]

BlueHairAgen

[@PaulSebastianM]

Hair color spray. I think it can be taken off with a wash.

[@desertfish74]

I hate it

[@NeilHaskins]

@@PaulSebastianM Way to shatter the illusion.

[@DavidValle-ej8es]

I actually have Dracula mode on, with 0 udemy courses finshed

[@oscarmulin114]

Dracula is just good, imo. Close to Solarized Dark, but "warmer". Buut maybe I've just coded in JVM stuff for too long xd

[@ivanjelenic5627]

Me too. But I haven't even started any. Sublime + JetBrains editor combo

[@lucasjames8281]

Cherry vscode theme is the best you mongs

[@tenbitube]

I prefer dracula because it is on everything and I like the color

[@poomprawatkomolthitinan5209]

@@lucasjames8281I used to have it during the very first week I use nvim (because Primeagen). And it’s just bland. I need dracula’s brain stimulus

[@PapaVikingCodes]

Files column open helps center the code window. Yea. It’s a thing. Any column will suffice.

[@stevvns]

Yup, same here. Side bar opened on the left comfortably offsets code position closer to the center of the screen. The bar can be anything - file explorer, git view, tests view, whatever. I really felt extra strain on eyes going neovim or helix without this comfortable padding on the left.

[@ivanjermakov]

For that I use "Deditor.distraction.free.mode=true" in Intellij and no-neck-pain.nvim plugin in nvim.

[@peterszarvas94]

same here, but you can also use something like zen mode to center the code

[@NeilHaskins]

All that empty space at the right of your code can be disconcerting. At what point does that abyss start staring back?

[@trumpetpunk42]

​@@NeilHaskinsjust make longer lines - what are we paying by the column!? 😂

[@hebozhe]

I'm kind of like a T-Rex. If I don't toggle my file manager every once in a while, I begin to think my files don't exist.

[@uzbekistanplaystaion4BIOScrek]

clever girl

[@pencilcase8068]

Me too, I'm glad I'm not alone

[@emjizone]

4:33 That line "Are you lost?" after a pause almost killed me. I was eating bread and cheese and the sudden fit of laughter as I swallowed almost killed me. Thanks you. I now have a better idea of the value of my life. This "Are you lost?" question is certainly the most humiliating to ask to someone pretending to be a genius with a computer. I keep it. I will make a good use of it. Thank you. Simple, straightforward, efficient, apparently naive yet extremely vicious. Elegant.🤩

[@olhoTron]

0:42 thats not a cube brain, that is a tesseract brain!

[@binary_gaming113]

I have a file explorer open mostly so that my code is more towards the center of the screen (the only valid reason for one)

[@webcodr]

Woohoo, I'm not the only who does this. :D

[@gearmaxim]

If you're using vsc, there is zen mode, might be cool to try out

[@esbrasill]

Same here, my screen is just way too big.

[@gosnooky]

@@gearmaxim Zen mode. We all know it's there, but I've never used it - I can see using a minimalist mode when writing prose, but coding? Just never felt "natural."

[@MarasiTemple]

Just use word and use the center tekst option

[@candafilm]

Well shit. I'm a C# developer in a decent sized middle class home in Idaho with a dad bod. Called the hell out.

[@BraxtonMeyer]

I do love prime discovering some of the absolutely idiotic takes Stallman has.

[@ThePrimeTimeagen]

Dude, that shit is wild

[@notuxnobux]

good thing his social takes are completely unrelated to his take on software freedom

[@nekogami87]

ngl, I paused the video and googled that shit to be check if that was real or not.

[@axMf3qTI]

I'm dutch-ish and I remember that pedo party, it was called The Party for Neighbourly Love, Freedom, and Diversity or PNVD for short. They never went anywhere but where active till the 20's. The pro-animal always gets my vote, that's more my thing.

[@justanothercomment416]

@meTimeagen Same origins of what the R st Fun dation quietly supports.

[@ericpmoss]

The reason people liked the IBM keyboard was that IBM has serious ergonomics labs who experimented and tested with thousands of typists. They didn’t reduce the design to match a price point fit for devices expected to last a year and be tossed.

[@tbqhwyf]

Had serious ergonomics labs but decided to settle on the 6.25 unit space bar instead of a shorter space bar that has easier access to Alt keys?

[@zyriab5797]

Staggered row makes no sense from an ergonomics perspective, it's an historical design choice. Also, the numpad is bad ergo if you use a mouse (shoulder over-extension). It does look super cool though, too bad it does not have a super key!

[@tbqhwyf]

@@zyriab5797 row stagger doesn't really matter, especially for a keyboard that isn't split

[@zyriab5797]

I use Colemak-Dh and I wish my laptop's keyboard was ortholinear. Getting that J (Y) is kind of a pain in the butt. Especially since it's a major Vim key!

[@tbqhwyf]

@@zyriab5797it wouldn't be much easier to reach on an ortho, honestly. The difference in the distance would be like 3.5 mm. A keyboard being split really makes 95% of the ergonomics difference, alongside a split space bar, and it really makes keys easier to reach as well. Ortho really shines on a split keyboard, and on a regular keyboard it can actually make it more difficult to type for some people. For example, Colemak-DH D and H are very easy to hit, but they become slightly more difficult on an ortho (without split) unless you bend your wrists laterally even more than a row-staggered keyboard. Here's my suggestion: swap J with Q, that should make J easier to hit in Vim without sacrificing the typing

[@Gennys]

The way you get cube brain is you start applying to hyper specific mailing lists. Never code in rust for the Linux kernel. Spend 20 years in the past to become a manager in the Linux kernel. Going to the future to bring back your favorite hype language into the present.

[@NeilHaskins]

Customize the Haskell compiler to output intelligible C.

[@EwokPanda]

Holy sh*t. I just realized, Prime is Dr. Disrespect in an alternate universe. The voice. The moustache. The humor. It's **all** there. Edit: He's Prime.doc not Prime.pdf

[@andresfontalvo17]

Dr. Unrespect

[@blarghblargh]

yeah, pretty well known, and people used to meme about it a lot

[@82ABN]

Dr disrespect his marrage wishes he was smart enough to talk abou anything other than infidelity

[@CHURCHISAWESUM]

Dr. Bitrespect

[@hundvd_7]

4:37 I almost always have it open just so that the screen has some padding and I am looking at the center of the screen for the code. Of course, as long as the code isn't too indented. So never with our messy PHP backend.

[@lennarth.6214]

The real reason why the file editor stays open is because we forgot the shortcut to toggle it and are too lazy to look it up

[@jojobinx6326]

ctrl-b by default, I think

[@davidzwitser]

You can literally click on the explorer button to collapse it 😂

[@spl420]

​@@davidzwitsermouse is cringe

[@davidzwitser]

@@spl420 filling your screen with stuff you don’t need is even more cringe. But best to know the shortcuts indeed

[@DarthDose]

@@jojobinx6326 Stop it, we didn't want to know! No my brain has to put effort into not remembering this!

[@TheRealBigYang]

Plain, unadulterated sublime is honestly the best non-CLI editor. It's the gift that keeps on giving. The best CLI editor is echo "" >> file and echo "" > file

[@kluehouse7316]

I literally use Sublime because I’m used to the specific colors of sublime and I don’t like change

[@TheRealBigYang]

@@kluehouse7316 Monokai on sublime is bae

[@briankamras2913]

I’m safe. He didn’t mention Acme, the editor Rob Pike wrote for Plan 9. I’m too hipster to be caught.

[@AndersJackson]

Acme is interesting. So is Willy, which is Acme but for X11.

[@knee2169]

Nice. This video only hurts real developers.

[@lilacdoe7945]

Nice try digital nomad.

[@sharky98]

4:25 The reason I keep the file explorer open is because my screen is so wide that if I close it, the code is just oddly too much to the left side of the screen and I need to keep my head just slightly turned, but enough to be bothering me! And why I have this so precise reason. Because every now and then (at least once a day), I close it telling to my self what I don't need it, but promptly open it just to have the code in front of me, not on the side 😂

[@TragicGFuel]

There is a zen mode in vscode. It has changed how much I FOCUS on the code itself.

[@KyleHarrisonRedacted]

4:48 hi, professional software developer of 15 years who always has his file tree open here 👋 The ridiculous number of times I’m working with complex file trees that require constant juggling of open vs not open vs diff/compared vs narrower find in files scope, etc etc etc is numerous and daily. I find my anxiety rises when I have it collapsed because then I’m trusting often imperfect intellisense like operations and my own a shitty memory to resolve file paths or deep reference some class member. My ability to navigate the file tree is often faster than the Find Anywhere/Everywhere type operations of waiting for things like VSCode to have its autocomplete try and “resolve“

[@andreimoraru1043]

What about fuzzy finders? (C-p in Vscode). You can type in the query sort-of-wrong and still get there (hence fuzzy). Can you really navigate 10k files projects using the file tree?

[@KyleHarrisonRedacted]

@@andreimoraru1043 not saying fuzzy finders aren't useful, they tend to also get marred down with a ton of irrelevant results, I use them occasionally and especailly when something I want is so deeply nested, but I generally have it mapped in my head exactly where it is anyways

[@woofcaptain8212]

I simply have an Ultra wide so it doesn't bother me

[@dsvechnikov]

​@@andreimoraru1043Can you really navigate 10k files project without files tree? How do you remember what files are there to be able to navigate them by finding? Fuzzy search can help a lot but still

[@Imaltont]

@@dsvechnikov The biggest projects I navigate around is only around 5k files, but I would throw the question in reverse, how would you effectively navigate with a file tree. With emacs I have find-file in project, find buffer in project (open file for simplicity), global find file (starting in the directory of the currently open file), global find buffer, I can pull up a file explorer if I really need to (dired), but that is rarely the case. There is also various grep commands. All of these I can navigate with fuzzy search + previews (from the Vertico+Marginalia extensions). I also know (Neo)Vim has all of this through some fuzzy finding plugins. I couldn't imagine using something other than fuzzy finding + something like the excelent buffer and project management of emacs for traversing such projects. You almost don't even have to think of where you are, you just end up where you need to be.

[@Verssales]

Sometimes I let the file manager open on my text editor to make the text more towards the center

[@lunabyte5624]

best response from chat fr "why do you need to see your files?" someone: "because i'm gay"

[@KyleHarrisonRedacted]

15:01 love me my jetbrains products. Happy All Products subscriber for like 7 years 15:28 also love me my Visual Studio proper

[@joeglens]

im not even sure how to feel about this. as an embedded sw dev, I went through multiple flavors of eclipse (from different mcu/compiler vendors) for 15 years before i discovered vs code and felt i was at home finally

[@alvasBV]

This didn’t aged well for Dr Disrespect

[@adamtroup785]

Yeah one day Dr Disrespect might not be on KZbin🤔

[@mikapeltokorpi7671]

I actually wanted to be a digital nomad already in 80s. IBM was the first tactile one.

[@NeilHaskins]

The model M popularized the buckling spring design, but there were plenty of other tactile switch designs before that. I think beam spring would be the most commonly known. My guess would be that the main reason Model Ms got there reputation is that so many people actually had a chance to use them.

[@george-broughton]

You wanted a 5100 didn't you?

[@owlmostdead9492]

4:50 to center the code/text, I don’t want to constantly look at the left side if my monitor, it’s either that or empty space to center the code/text.

[@ego-lay_atman-bay]

He didn't mention my code editor, ms paint! Nooo!

[@davidspagnolo4870]

That stallman moment hit hard. Prime's reaction was the same reaction I had when I first found out about some of Stallmans "opinions".

[@AScribblingTurtle]

4:44: HEY, even as a NeoVim user I like having the File Tree open (all be it on the Left side, not the right one.) It is more of a Gap filler though. The ideal Line length is 120 Characters. The File-Tree helps to center the Text in a Position I'm actually looking at. Since the File Tree is part of the editor, it can be easily collapsed once I need to reclaim that space for a split or something else.

[@gjermundification]

4:13 What is the size of your screen?!? 32K 450"?

[@AScribblingTurtle]

@@gjermundification Would be cool, but no. At home a 16" 1080p At the Office a 21" 1080p Sadly both 16:9 aspect ratio. Plenty of room on both of those to fit at least two 80 to 120-character editors side by side or one centered one.

[@gjermundification]

How do you have screen real estate for a file tree then,@@AScribblingTurtle?

[@AScribblingTurtle]

@@gjermundification ​ Small to normal font size and a good pair of glasses maybe? I don't see how you couldn't have enough real estate, even on the 16" Screen. Both nvim-tree and NERDTree (Whatever you prefer) are only around 30 Characters wide. Plus I never said, they are open all the time. If you need the space, they can be closed easily.

[@gjermundification]

I must admit I do prefer telescope, it's contextual @@AScribblingTurtle

[@another212shadow]

That is a very old quote and RMS retracted it years ago: 14 September 2019 (Sex between an adult and a child is wrong) Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it. Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why.

[@0x90h]

4:21. I can answer that question; it is simple. Nowadays, we have monitors that are able to display 4K resolutions. However, despite this capability, programmers tend to write no more than 80 characters per line (as fitting all the content into one line can make the code less readable). So, even if I have opened the file explorer, it remains there instead of being blank space

[@poomprawatkomolthitinan5209]

Cry in 1080p monitor 😭

[@quarteratom]

He works in a terminal, so he doesn't have space for a file explorer. He's just bu,tthurt, his opinion doesn't matter.

[@plaintext7288]

​@@quarteratomsounds like butthurt xd

[@X-101]

o god i lost it when he lifted his 'keyboard'

[@ryanisthewind]

I was waiting to see your reaction for this🤣 I watched that video and navigated vs code file explorer to the right side fr, IT IS REALLY GOOD NOW!

[@friedrichmyers]

Bro became biblically accurate rust programmer (again)

[@calebpena3729]

I leave the file editor (and terminal) open so it looks cooler when someone walks past my desk

[@1998goodboy]

Most of the reasons why I keep a file explorer open is so I don’t need to look all the way to the left of my 27” screen lol 😂

[@Nocare89]

I have a 34" left screen and 27" right one. I keep docs, tools, types, and reference code on the left. I keep code I'm actively building/changing on the right of that. This makes it pretty much center on that window and fairly center between both screens. What you can also do is just not have a fullscreen window. It's okay :P

[@LikeALeafOnTheWind]

lol you pulled that keyboard abomination up and i nearly spit all over mine. LMAO

[@lavitasecondolibero2310]

The initial statement about VScode’s users is pure truth, it’s literally me, he nailed everything down to the last detail

[@perfectloser]

The IBM Model M - it's all about the feels and sound of buckling spring switches

[@ScarabaeusSacer435]

First PC-- though not the first computer-- I owned (or rather, that my parents bought) was an IBM PS/2 486SX 25MHz with 4 MB of RAM (later upgraded to 8 MB). So many memories of that PC: every computer I have had after that has been vastly superior to that in every way except one-- the IBM model M keyboard. It didn't need the windows key, you could just ctrl+escape to get the start menu to pop up when windows 95 came out. People who have customized mechanical keyboards now think they understand, but they don't.

[@JoshPeterson]

My world changed once I started using Neovim, Telescope and Harpoon. I was using Cmd+P in VS Code, but once I switched to Neovim setting up Telescope and Harpoon is what kept me in the ecosystem. They're just so damn useful.

[@colin_actually]

for the neovim section he just watched like 2 prime videos and took rough notes.

[@NSA-admin]

That notepad++ one was uncalled for. It's so simple and useable.

[@poleve5409]

all of them are uncalled for, it's just for laughs dude

[@devlinbowman5251]

Turning off the always open file tree pane increased my personal short term memory by a locally benchmarked 10x.

[@jeremykothe2847]

People love the IBM keyboards because THE CLICKY! (plus, if you're attacked, they can kill a man)

[@spicynoodle7419]

Sublime 4 and jQuery 4, 2024 is the new 2014

[@neoqueto]

We never went extinct, we kept on cooking.

[@KvapuJanjalia]

I have file explorer always open in my Microsoft Visual Studio 2024 Enterprise Professional Ultimate Edition *on second 32" monitor.*

[@ame7165]

that IBM keyboard was basically the first one that our current "standard" format came from, and to make things even better, it has mechanical switches. granted they're super super loud buckling spring switches if I remember correctly, but still, in the days of these modern mechanical keyboard nerds, this was the world tree

[@Telhias]

4:15 The answer is: Me cooking some "OOP Spaghetti".

[@256k_]

the absolute best thing about this video is getting a live reaction of prime learning about stallman

[@CaioMGA]

the keyboard got me off guard

[@alex.does.comedy]

The open file tree on the right side is very good for debugging or looking into libraries that don't have a lot of documentation. Also very useful when trying to understand the structure of a project. When you're a freelancer for example to get into a codebase maybe once in 3 to 6 months and then the file tree becomes very handy. Also it's showing off how big of a monitor you have and how you. have soft line wraps at 120 characters.

[@JackDespero]

I don't love IBM keyboards. I love Sun keyboards, which are as old and even harder to find. The reason? They are build right, with the ctrl where capslock is in a normal (yikes) keyboard. This is how God intended us to build keyboards before SATAN himself put the most useless key in the home row, and now it is a punishment, a reminder of our hubris.

[@DaverSomethingSomething]

Growing up with IBM PS/2 into RS6k and then going to work for Sun.. gotta say the keyboard transition was rough. Type 4 and 5 sure were sturdy but mushy as hell.

[@NeilHaskins]

OK, but you have mapped caps lock to Ctrl on your own system, right?

[@zappchance]

I re-mapped CAPS LOCK to Backspace

[@pedronogueira5267]

And yet, may god have mercy on my soul, Code Blocks isn't even mentioned.

[@progste]

Two minutes in this is dangerously accurate...

[@StaK_1980]

@ 7:50 Prime pulls out the supralinearorthogridkeyboard and I'm WHEEZING ! :-) Shots fired old man, shots fired...

[@conundrum2u]

as someone who's done C# for almost as many years as it's existed, and who's done work in other languages, it is as good as we say it is. it's now far better than Java ever was or currently is, not only from a language design standpoint, but the runtime on which it runs, and the ability to publish to native making it nearly as fast or performant as a lot of C code. I've stepped outside of the beautiful walled garden and seen the squalor most of you live in and I'm disgusted. I wouldn't do everything with C#, but anything north of the kernel is far better served by it.

[@arrangemonk]

ive been using c# allmy life and its like untoasted toast with mayonaise, no water

[@NotaBurnerac-iv6pp]

.. sooo... goood?

[@ArthurSo-wh3tz]

The reason I have my file explorer open all the time is to center the code on the big screen so my neck doesn't hurt

[@excitedbox5705]

Fun fact: All editors suck terribly, which is why they are so polarizing. We have tried them all and everyone values different things and therefore find all others unusable, but nobody is truly happy. Over the last few years, I have come to the conclusion that our entire tech stack needs a redo from scratch. From programming language to OS to networking to UI. Just a clean sheet redesign from nothing. 50 years of bolting on patch after patch has created a monster.

[@brianteague8031]

The analogy of a file tree to a map makes a lot of sense. I like my maps.

[@nodemodules]

Yes my editor

[@SnowDaemon]

This may have been the funniest video i ever seen you react to. I have a horrible sense of humour and never laugh but when he said "Git can eat a ___" I lost it

[@jmm00702]

sublime GOATed

[@maximofernandez196]

This guy tooked the lua pill so hard that he's gonna fly to Brazil

[@aaronroach837]

Jetbrains users are enthusiasts who are really just pre-Neovim users in denial. I can count on one hand the number of devs that I’ve worked with who are using something other than VSCode or Visual Studio. Jetbrains products definitely are NOT the average developer’s editor. Most devs in my experience just use whatever is approved and/or paid for by the company.

[@marioprawirosudiro7301]

To be fair though, it could be that they're lumping in Android Studio with Jetbrains. But then again, on the other side of the coin, people often underestimate the number of Java devs that are still on Eclipse...

[@aaronroach837]

@rawirosudiro7301That's true; I forgot about Android Studio. Although, I do feel like web devs are the "default" that most people talk about when talking about developers since they're so common. I don't work in Java shops that much, although the devs that I did work on a Java project just used VSCode with plugins rather than a bespoke editor like Intellij/Eclipse/NetBeans/etc..

[@aut0turret]

Why do I love my IBM Model M keyboard, and have one put into regular service at the office? One, because I'm into old computers; my place is full of them and they're all brimming with upgradiness. Two, it is an absolute workhorse of a keyboard, and a joy to type on. Three, you can beat your interrupting coworkers over the head with it and go right back to typing.

[@u9vata]

Around 10+ years ago I used some IDE for MASM32 that let me wysiwyg build winapi gui with 32bit assembly haha - what does that say? Crazy?

[@joelpww]

I just realized why i never understood the argument against vscode is probably because I would use it more like an IDE than a text/code editor. !! P.S. That vscode description was painfully PAINFULLY accurate. apart from Udemy, 0 courses purchased. P.S.S. These days I'm rocking a sleek monokai

[@SportezMemes]

The Doc Comment 3:29💀

[@steffenrumpel2784]

6:06 - Yes, I use Windows ... okay ... I USE Windows ... and I'm PROUD OF IT. I just love that, at that precise time into the video, it got interrupted by some unskippable ad. > KZbin, well done. Seriously, that left me dumbfolded.

[@KyleHarrisonRedacted]

7:58 lost my shit at this moment, oh my god LOL

[@adityavarshney6690]

"The neo-vimmers" 😂

[@beastnighttv]

fr man..... I almost peed myself ;-;

[@__jacky.bones__]

My dad's been in IT since the 80's and he is obsessed with his IBM keyboard. KA-CHUNK KA-CHUNK KA-CHUNK, that noise haunts me

[@isurujn]

I have Sublime Text 4 installed. It doesn't show that alert anymore. I never paid either!

[@markhaus]

Bro roasted me and all of dev-dom so brutally I may never recover

[@dasunguy]

Average Visual Studio user: late 30s or early 40s, house loan paid off halfway, says "my child stays home sick; will only work part-time today" in team calls.

[@JonyKalavera]

You know what. That mustache does scream old-timey movie antagonist

[@johnbruhling8018]

I went to Brazil last year, it was great! Have fun!

[@VictorSadkov]

As an owner of one of the split keyboards, I say, yes, it is supervillian-esque.

[@tejeshmanyam6683]

3:36 ......well

[@fidel_soto]

When he took the keyboard out (on top of everything else being said) it sent me

[@severgun]

if your code took only 80 chars what else you display if not file tree?

[@askholia]

My man called out the VS Code in 'Dracula' mode. SHOTS FIRED...at me...2 years ago...BTW I USE NEOVIM!...inside Arch Linux...I know, I know Ill see myself out.

[@timseguine2]

Allow me a moment to overdramatize. I am someone who has the file explorer open most of the time when I am coding. I am a proponent of "If your code isn't understandable with only local information, then it isn't understandable", and the file structure and by extension the module structure is usually the only major connection to the big picture I feel like I need most times. If I have a question about how some function or class ties into the big picture of the project (in a well organized project) I can usually answer that question with a 3 second glance at the file explorer. Even in badly organized projects, the file explorer contains a lot of information about programmer intent that would take months of learning otherwise. It's a small piece, but when you're working on code that you don't know like the back of your hand that piece of information is important. I spent most of my time as a junior developer with my head underwater in code bases that were too big with no introduction from a fellow human whatsoever. So I learned to speak the language that was presented to me. The source code, and even the organization of the source code is the programmer communicating with the build system, but in doing so they are also communicating a lot of information that they may or may not have realized. But whatever. In scenarios where you have a large amount of other information sources, the file explorer isn't that useful. But in my experience when you get thrown into shark infested waters, it just might be the difference between being eaten alive and surviving comfortably. I am very at home in extremely low information coding environments (which are very common in "enterprise"), and I think a big part of that is making use of every source of information that I have available to the fullest. Pick a random bug report on a random project on the internet somewhere. I am pretty confident that I could solve it almost as fast as someone who has been working on the project actively for a couple of years. I don't think many people would be able to make that claim and be right about it.

[@cyberneticqualanaut7207]

Eclipse is preferred among embedded software engineers and they keep the file explorer open to jump between files as a feature is being coded. One also has an emulator and a dev board on the bench.

[@burkskurk82]

No one starts with C#. It’s almost always somebody who’ve had the heart crushed before.

[@HominisLupis]

Elaborate?

[@funicon3689]

definitely false. .net is huge

[@Muskar2]

When I took my CS degree a decade ago, we were taught C# as the primary language. C# is huge in Denmark. But where you're kinda right is that it gradually crushed my heart using it, but now that I'm in C and Jai I finally feel at home.

[@burkskurk82]

OK, I’m clearly biased here. MATLAB, Java and Python used to be primers ages ago, in my area, at universities. But since, C# has been open sourced. Moving on to a second language can be real eye-opener. I do believe such languages exist, but perhaps, Elixir, Jai and Lua are more suitable examples of this.

[@NotGarbageLoops]

JetBrains bully here - we are not the average.

[@ErikTheHalibut]

The Doc comment aged like fine wine... Unlike his victims...

[@Jonatron101]

"6 udemy courses purchased, zero completed" And I took that personally.

[@pexoto5093]

All your videos that mention Brasil always appear in my recomendations. I am brazilian. The algorithm knows what it is doing

[@No-no-no-no-nope]

It all started in my childhood bedroom with my first Windows 95 computer. Windows was constantly broken, so I bought a Linux magazine with a CD at a gas station and installed Suse. You always feel so unique and then the Internet came along and I had to realize that I was just an archetype who used Thinkpads, Linux and Vim.

[@amiladrck]

I immediately closed the file explorer on my IDE and I realized that I don't even use it at all. I love these eye opener videos.

[@r0yce]

As someone in the vim linux i3 stage perpetually frustrated about how much windows would simplify my game dev, this video was too scary.

[@CaptEirikr]

I felt that early jr dev comment in my soul. I have so many incomplete udemy courses. I blame the adhd... And I need my file tree open so that I know, deep in my heart, that they're all still there.

[@DaverSomethingSomething]

Model M is a combination of sharp clicky feel and sharp pinging sound.. extremely tactile in a multidimensional way. These days even the clicky switches have a mushy sound. It’s just not as cohesive.

[@marioprawirosudiro7301]

And VERY durable, given that it's just plain ol' metal spring under those keys...

[@DaverSomethingSomething]

@@marioprawirosudiro7301with a mushy membrane underneath no less.

[@hld3738]

I enjoy perusing files through the file tree every now and then. It's like taking the scenic route on a drive, I just feel like it sometimes.

[@Imevul]

Those IBM keyboards were the rolls royce of keyboards, dude. Great ergonomics, heavenly tactile experience, and build quality far above anything you can find today. There's a reason why you can still find original IBM keyboards in great condition several decades later (and people still go looking for them). They're pretty much on the same level as a Nokia 3310. On the other hand, you won't find a heavly used Logitech G-whatever in any decent condition in 10 years time.

[@programmer1356]

Made me cry. Thank you, you set up my lovely day. "Folder" I'll mention that in the pub tonight 🙂But 40% keyboard, nvim - I must look at myself in the mirror.

[@sachaDS0]

What funny (and accurate) description xD

[@reaperdev9857]

“Why are you looking at your file explorer?” It’s funny to see this now because not too long I wasn’t using Cursor..