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Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by _the_inflator » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 1:03 PM UTC

jiggawatts wrote: post #41

mirimir wrote: post #4

This reminds me of early versions of Microsoft Word. Edit: And more generally, DOS, FAT and CHKDSK. You never knew, when there was a power interruption -- or when the system just crashed for whatever mysterious reason -- just how bad it would be. NTFS was such an improvement.

I still have a habit of pressing CTRL-S intermittently...

Yes, and browsing through the TMP folders in hopes of finding some temporary savings of your data. :D

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by baud147258 » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 1:09 PM UTC

larntz wrote: post #75

lostjohnny wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think everyone older than 30 does. I also have the habit of pressing it more than one time, every time I press it. I'm not even be sure that save will really save.

Is this an age thing? I do the exact same thing. Every time I stop typing I hit ctrl-s between 2-5 times. I don't eve think about it anymore. My kids are getting to the age where they are doing projects on a computer and I'm constantly telling them to "save early, save often." I guess it's some form of PTSD from computing in the 90's.

My dad was doing support & sysadmin and it was save and make copies, both on-line (it was 5 years before we would start using cloud) and on physical media.

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by _pmf_ » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 1:16 PM UTC

H8crilA wrote: post #35

mirimir wrote: post #4

This reminds me of early versions of Microsoft Word. Edit: And more generally, DOS, FAT and CHKDSK. You never knew, when there was a power interruption -- or when the system just crashed for whatever mysterious reason -- just how bad it would be. NTFS was such an improvement.

It just misses the feature where some of the deleted words can still be found in the saved file. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...

Using log structured file formats before it was cool.

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by kieckerjan » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 1:39 PM UTC

justaguyhere wrote: post #90

Reminds me of Oulipo writing, different forms of constraint I guess. This app was fun!

An important contrast is that Oulipo's constraints sought to boost a book's or story's quality, not quantity, mainly by forcing authors to pick words unusually scrupulously. An illustration of such a constraint would consist of radically omitting that most popular symbol in our vocabulary. An important Oulipo alumnus got to author a book wholly in that way. (Look it up: A Void.)

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by meerita » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 1:42 PM UTC

jiggawatts wrote: post #41

mirimir wrote: post #4

This reminds me of early versions of Microsoft Word. Edit: And more generally, DOS, FAT and CHKDSK. You never knew, when there was a power interruption -- or when the system just crashed for whatever mysterious reason -- just how bad it would be. NTFS was such an improvement.

I still have a habit of pressing CTRL-S intermittently...

Same here... so many bad memories of losing 2 hours of writing school works.

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by freehunter » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

lostjohnny wrote: post #53

jiggawatts wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still have a habit of pressing CTRL-S intermittently...

I think everyone older than 30 does. I also have the habit of pressing it more than one time, every time I press it. I'm not even be sure that save will really save.

I still to this day have problems with various MS Office products failing to save or not auto-saving on the latest Office for Mac. So I spam that Cmd+S button as often as I can.

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by rodolphoarruda » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 1:57 PM UTC

jiggawatts wrote: post #41

mirimir wrote: post #4

This reminds me of early versions of Microsoft Word. Edit: And more generally, DOS, FAT and CHKDSK. You never knew, when there was a power interruption -- or when the system just crashed for whatever mysterious reason -- just how bad it would be. NTFS was such an improvement.

I still have a habit of pressing CTRL-S intermittently...

Last week my colleague and I were sharing screens while he was writing a document. 10 minutes in and some good wording put into the document I asked him: "Are you saving this?". He answered, "yes, I do Ctrl+S while typing, I mean, between words". And I couldn't even notice it. That's level 5 in the craze scale.

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by vimy » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC

colinhowe wrote: post #50

I got to 5 minutes. I have a kid so this was easy :D Once upon a time there was a banana. That banana was called bob. Bob the banana used to have fights with other fruit. His arch nemesis was Oscar the orange. Oscar was a very orange orange. He was so orange that everyone else was jealous. Bob the banana wasn't very yellow. He was kind of yellow with dark splotches on. That is why Bob used to fight the other fruit. H…

Add some illustrations and you have a children's book.

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by doodpants » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 2:06 PM UTC

iraldir wrote: post #10

3 minutes typing: This is me writing a comment for this app using hardcore mode which right now I realise is having the text co clompletely blurred and it is quite hard indeed I can barely come back a word if I write a type. Although it doesnt seem to be based onmy typing speed so I guess if you are good at typing it's not as bad as if you are bad at it. Well I don't what to say more than that the interface is nice a…

My 3 minutes in hardcore mode:

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Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by mannykannot » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 2:06 PM UTC

accatyyc wrote: post #89

larntz wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this an age thing? I do the exact same thing. Every time I stop typing I hit ctrl-s between 2-5 times. I don't eve think about it anymore. My kids are getting to the age where they are doing projects on a computer and I'm constantly telling them to "save early, save often." I guess it's some form of PTSD from computing in the 90's.

It feels like a programmer thing, since unsaved files won't be compiled when you run the program. At least that's where I got the habit from

Programmers have an additional issue with incremental build systems that do not always rebuild everything they should.