Kinda reminds me of psdoom, I think because of the gamified self-destructive element.
Psdoom is doom, except the bad guys are mapped to processes IDs and shooting them sends renice and eventually kill signals.
The Most Dangerous Writing App
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still have a habit of pressing CTRL-S intermittently...
Man, this is so true. At least several times a week I press Command-S and unintentionally saved HTML from browser. I even have a script to delete all HTML in my Download folder.
Funny. I also press ctrl-s in Firefox quite a bit, but for a completely different reason: in Emacs that shortcut invokes search.
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#113There is a version with prompt as well by squibler who is maintaining the app with domain name
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#114Earlier 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 moved to using an IDE. Everything is saved and always. There isn't even a save button. I also moved from vi/vim quite painlessly and never find ':wq' or 'hhhjjjj' in documents that I have edited, this was a genuine danger once.
With the right tools - an IDE with version control - the quaint notion of saving files can be mostly forgotten and the fear of losing unsaved work banished. Even if over 30 adaptation is possible so long as it is an easy, downhill path with less to do instead of new stuff to learn.
It used to be 'Jesus saves' but now, for me, my motto is to just use an IDE.
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#115Keyboard: Alt-PrtSc takes a screenshot of in focus window. paste in paint and save. OCR later :)
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#116"It's not a bug, it's a feature"
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#117He, he, this reminds of that app from beginning of app stores: "How high you can throw your phone" - where it relied on phone sensor to calculate the distance when the phone was thrown upward. Good times.
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#118This 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...
I still do that, even when I write in google docs.
But then again I don't think it was more than a month ago that some coworker lost work because Photo Shop crashed and they hadn't saved in a while.
Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App
#119This 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...
Better than CTRL-C though. We used to have an Microfocus COBOL app (in the twin-floppy days) that would happily let you spend the entire day entering data, then fail to trap an accidental CTRl-C (it's close to "S", obvs). The developers had never allowed for that. Soul destroying..
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#120This 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...
And then you work on an interface like Confluence's page editor where for no good reason, Ctrl+S is mapped to exiting the edior. It saves your edits in the background while you type, so you don't lose anything. But you get interrupted in a big way. Changing that would be trivial, but Atlassian deprioritized it to the bottom of the stack.