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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016) (www.nngroup.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (3 children)

As frustrating as this may be, it's even more frustrating when I see exactly the same thing among PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS!

directory structure and basic text editing are foreign concepts to them. If it's not in their IDE, they really don't understand it.

Also, 90% of them are hunt-and-peck two finger typists.

[–] nek0d3r 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm honestly blown away by how many developers don't even know the basics of git

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Because a GUI makes everything a lot simpler. I only started understanding how git works the moment I dropped the GUI and had to resolves issues through CLI.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They had one employer maybe who never used it?

[–] nek0d3r 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, some companies are very slow to adapt. One company I worked for was still using SVN. It was a nightmare lol, and when they did finally migrate to git, some of my coworkers were completely lost.

But there's also something to be said among developers I've worked with on hobbyist projects. Plenty of people who just shared files over and over, or just had it on Google drive or Dropbox

[–] Janovich 2 points 6 months ago

We hired a guy 2 years ago and his company was still using MS Virtual SourceSafe. Dudes, that was released in 1994 and the last update was 2005. Just crazy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I typed hunt and peck for so long that I can hunt and peck with my eyes closed. Though technically I'm not hunting anymore, just pecking lol.

[–] Crashumbc 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey! What did my two fingers ever do to you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hunt and peck, allegedly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Feeling' a bit peckish