Rather than complain today about the new host of errors I received from Steemit (or setting a new record for attempts required to submit a single reply,) I thought I'd take this opportunity to thank one Larry Tesler, credited inventor of the clipboard and copy/paste functions.
After all, on days like today, he is saving me a lot of trouble!
Sacred creator of Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and Ctrl+X, I bow my head in acknowledgment of your deep wisdom. Truly, among productivity creations, yours was well ahead of its time. Given that it's time was 1973, I think I'm in the clear there.
Larry came up with the idea of quickly copying strings of text to a system's operating memory while working on the Gypsy project for Xerox. Gypsy was the "first document preparation system based on a mouse and graphical user interface," so arguably all aspects of this project were rather trailblazing.
I would not be surprised to learn I had copy and pasted literally millions of characters. The tool has saved my countless hours of lost work, streamlining the process of making backups I never thought I'd need (but totally did, thanks Steemit!)
They should take away Obama's Nobel and dedicate it to this man, post-haste.
If you have any additions or errata for this post, please let me know! I will see that they are voted to the top of the comments, and will make the appropriate edits (if possible).
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Sources: Wikipedia, Google, Steemit, Seeker.com
Copyright: Wikipedia, Youtube, Xerox
Even better is using an offline Markdown editor to write in (or online like hackmd.io). That way even if you forgot to
cmd+c, you still have the post. Even in your clipboard because that's how you pasted it to submit to Steemit in the first place.Depending on the mobile platform you use, there are cross-platform Markdown editors available, also free ones, giving you access to your posts anywhere. hackmd is free and saves all your posts, as a bonus it also havs solid collaboration features integrated.
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Great points. I use MarkdownPad2, but I'm on a windows PC. I also keep back-ups in an Open Office folder.
Today I've had my first blog post eaten again, so as usual, this is required best practice. Comments you can get away with keeping them in your clipboard if they are short...but I need to back up some of the longer comments, too.
In fact, this reply twice gave "Transaction failed".
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wut is this a job?
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What are you, new here? ;)
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I'm truly liking how slimline hackmd is, if only they had a mobile app with additional offline functionality. I've given up to get MarkDown on all platforms in Simplenote, otherwise it would be my preferred editor, even without real organization method. Seach to find works for me.
Don't tell anybody but I still use nvAlt. :D
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I don't think anyone will judge you for that around here.
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Here I thought I was finally granted the chance to meet the legendary Devil's advocate @lexiconical, only to find it was ONLY Larry Tess-eh-ler
Bah!
I wouldn't consider that complaining honestly. I thought you could do better than this ;P
Thanks for the post.
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"I wouldn't consider that complaining"
I used to be better.
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Thank you larry, you have saved my ass so many times. And thanks lexiconical for bringing this to our attention. He really does deserve a freaking Nobel :D
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Thanks for letting me know Steemit has been acting screwy. Now I can quit restarting my computer hoping it will help my internet connection.
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I was all set to tell you that that doesn't work anyway, but then...it works way more often than it should.
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@lexiconical, awesome info and it cut my interest so i upvoted it. Keep it up
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Thanks, I'm glad it did!
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Yes, i like quality content and very intelligent informations that makes sense. Yours was very good. Keep it up
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Thanks!
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you are most welcome, and i'm truly impressed with the quality information. keep it up
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Copy and paste has saved my sanity on more than one occasion
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True that.
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Genius!
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You're too kind.
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great post like it
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Why would they need to take away Obama's Nobel to give this guy one, lol.
But besides that, really good and funny post. Copy/paste saves lives.
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Rather than complain today about the new host of errors I received from Steemit (or setting a new record for attempts required to submit a single reply,) I thought I'd take this opportunity to thank one Larry Tesler, credited inventor of the clipboard and copy/paste functions.
After all, on days like today, he is saving me a lot of trouble!
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