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Seeing how someone drives an editor, IDE or cli is often a strong indicator of how good they are... Watching people arrow around in vim often gives me all the i

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• quickthrower2 7y ago
  Yeah how dare people use the keys specifically design to move around a text editor! Just use hjkl like they did on some machine decades ago because it had a limited keyboard.
  • gregjor 7y ago
    The ADM-3A terminal on which Bill Joy developed vi had cursor control keys, ctrl+hjkl. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A I agree that vi/vim mastery or choice of editor has nothing to do with programming skill.
    • stevenalowe 7y ago
      “Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid” — Han Solo, condemning Luke’s use of VI
      • gregjor 7y ago
        Han Solo was killed by a hokey religion and an ancient weapon.
      • 3minus1 7y ago
        I read this as "hotkey religions" which actually fits haha
    • quickthrower2 7y ago
      Oh I love that number pad. And the whole thing is pretty stylish.
• sethammons 7y ago
  One of the top two or three developers I've ever known used arrows in vim. Turns out that vim or any editor usage is only a (poor) signal and does not inform an observer on a candidate's product knowledge, arcane technical knowledge, past successful launches that a candidate has led, or helps glean any insight into the zounds of hard won battle scars in project design, system design, networking, concurrency, state management, etc.