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Goodbye, Ctrl-S
An anonymous reader writes "'Save your work!' — This was a rallying cry for an entire generation of workers and students. The frequency and unpredictability of software crashes, power outages, and hardware failures made it imperative to constantly hit that save button. But in 2014? Not so much. My documents are automatically saved (with versioning) every time I make a change. My IDE commits code changes automatically. Many webforms will save drafts of whatever data I'm entering. Heck, even the games I play have an autosave feature. It's an interesting change — the young generation will grow up with an implicit trust that whatever they type into a computer will stay there. Maybe this is my generation's version of: 'In my day, we had to get up and walk across the room to change the channel on the TV!' In any case, it has some subtle but interesting effects on how people write, play, and create. No longer do we have to have constant interruptions to worry about whether our changes are saved — but at the same time, we don't have that pause to take a moment and reflect on what we've written. I'm sure we've all had moments where our hands hover over a save/submit button before changing our minds and hammering the backspace key. Maybe now we'll have to think before we write."
I've been using computers for over 30 years and have never once used this keystroke.
When it stopped meaning "Suspend output to terminal" along with it's partner CTRL-Q.
In-Band serial flow control ftw!
G.
Truly it is the year of the Linux Desktop. Long live :w
Excuses that no longer work:
My floppy disc isn't working
My computer blue screened before I saved
My e-mail was down
I don't know why your computer can't read that format
Every excuse I ever used to get a day's reprieve could not work now.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Oh god, please don't tell me this is going to be the year of the Emacs Desktop?
If so I may just consider getting a job as a gardener....
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Perhaps you've heard of a thing called a power outage.
That's where you reboot and the file is full of garbage because it crashed half-way through writing the new file to disk and the metadata was updated but not the contents, right?
...passes to Moses...SCORE!
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Undo levels to zero, no saving. Live in the moment, on the edge. No turning back, it's all in.
Buddha does incremental backups though..
I totally had first post on this one, but I found out I actually have to click both a preview button and submit button for it to save to this forum.
Maybe they work for Adobe?
Jesus saves!
And takes half damage from the fireball.
I've been pronouncing it wrong all these years.