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Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) 7 mesi fa • mastodon

I keep telling myself that I will never break down and add the following to my .bash_aliases file

alias mdkir=mkdir

But it's so, so tempting.

#linux

#Linux

Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) 7 mesi fa • mastodon

@dch On a related note: I can't tell you how many times I've typed the following:

pythong path/to/program

I have NO idea why I do that. It's not like I ever type "thong," but my fingers are hallucinating programming languages.

#Python

#python @dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:

Lapo Luchini 7 mesi fa friendica (DFRN)

Same here, but with alias naon=nano
I write it like that probably some 70% of the times.

Brie Mmm 7 mesi fa • friendica

For (most probably unwelcomed) information, almost same form exist in (very informal) Polish (pytong, base form being pyton). It works as a augmentative, but is also recognized as “dick”.

silverwizard 7 mesi fa • friendica

@Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) @:flan_whmage: :flan_q: I also end up typing pythong all the time, I never type thong, what is it about that?

my most common one is dokcer

@dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: @Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

Tim Kellogg 7 mesi fa • mastodon

i have a script called `gi` that removes the first letter from the first argument and passes args to git

gi tpush => git push

it also leaves a harassing message to myself to type better next time

luap 7 mesi fa • mastodon

what if alias mdkir to rm -rf instead, and see if that breaks the habit?

Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) 7 mesi fa • mastodon

@luap Close, but what you really want is:

alias emacs=vim

Makes pair programming so much more fun!

:wq

#emacs #vim

#vim #emacs @luap

luap 7 mesi fa • mastodon

@l13u7anant
alias emacs=wine notepad.exe ?

@l13u7anant

Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) 7 mesi fa • mastodon

@luap @l13u7anant

Reminds me of years ago when a new developer (switching from C++ to #Perl) joined a team I was on. We asked him if he preferred #emacs or #vim. He replied, "nano."

He didn't last long.

#perl #vim #emacs @luap @l13u7anant

Holger Schurig 7 mesi fa • mastodon

If you would make me switch from C++ to Perl, I wouldn't have lasted long either

(Generally, these programming languages are used for very different problems to solve. So switching from one to the other - if the problem space stays identical - really sounds weird)

Oh and yes, I got the Nano thing

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Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) 7 mesi fa • mastodon

@holgerschurig @luap @l13u7anant Problem space wasn't identical. He needed a new job and our work was very interesting to him. If you read in the news that a particular movie made X millions of dollars over the weekend, it used to be that software I worked on gave that number. Not sure if it's still there, though.

@Holger Schurig @luap @l13u7anant

Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) 7 mesi fa • mastodon

@holgerschurig @luap @l13u7anant Though I recall a time at the BBC where they concluded an unmaintainable Perl monolith was too slow and spent years rewriting it in C++. They not only created a new, unmaintainable monolith, but it was also too slow. Turns out no one profiled the original software to find out the real reasons it was slow.

@Holger Schurig @luap @l13u7anant

Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) 7 mesi fa • mastodon

I will confess to having the following in my .bash_aliases:

alias :e="vim"

Vftdan 7 mesi fa • mastodon

I did a somewhat opposite thing — my init.vim has:
cabbr nvim visual
(actually, it has additional logic to only trigger at the start of a command)