Comment by davedx
13 years ago
My favourite: "How I remapped my capslock key to be both ESC and Ctrl" -- maybe should have had VI in there too ;)
If a community can't laugh at itself, then it's surely doomed :D
13 years ago
My favourite: "How I remapped my capslock key to be both ESC and Ctrl" -- maybe should have had VI in there too ;)
If a community can't laugh at itself, then it's surely doomed :D
I agree. It's important to be able to laugh at ourselves. One of the dangers of the startup world is people taking things way too seriously.
I think that's why my 'double stealth' parody was such a hit a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183
"double stealth mode" is a classic. Very funny. I'm stealing that one.
Loved re-reading that.
You should write a book ... although too many people would probably take it as serious advice and start following it :/
awww you changed "15 minutes of uninterrupted eye contact" to "One on One time". The eye contact thing was my favorite part :(
The funny thing is that I know a few people who do this. (Holding Caps Lock = CTRL, tapping Caps Lock = ESC)
How could we not think about this? It's genius!
How is it done? Does your buddy use X, mac or where in the stack is the hack?
I'm slightly embarassed to admit that I remapped them after reading this: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/#cont...
On OS X, you can use KeyRemap4Macbook (http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/) to turn on the feature with a bit of hackery.
I have not figured out how to do it on Windows, but I imagine that it might be possible with AutoHotKey.
I got this working on my system (running X) with the help of a daemon (https://github.com/alols/xcape).
Now I just have to flog my muscle memory into submission.
I read about it in one of Steve Yegge's Emacs posts. Now I use it everywhere!
What an excellent idea! If I didn’t use CapsLock for choosing keyboard layout, I would have done this...
"YC-backed startup is looking for a growth hacker to help disrupt people's dinners" cracked me up.
this one did it for me as well!
you know, just two weeks ago I mapped my spacebar to be both space and Meta.
I'm on tenterhooks to know how you key Meta-Space now :)
Split keyboard! There are two space bars.
I really thought he'd include something about vim: "Controlling VIM 2x fast with toes and my Fingers on two keyboards"