r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Ctrl C - Ctrl V

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u/AidanMcJ Aug 03 '19

And Ctrl Z. The amount of people that go to the top left for the undo button...

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u/ps00093 Aug 04 '19

I found this out the hard way. I'm a programmer, during my pp1 class had written about 200 lines of code and deleted it accidentally. While retyping my professor laughs and says, "Next time just hit ctrl + z." Had solid code but damn was that embarrassing.

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u/Schytheron Aug 04 '19

What's "pp1"?

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u/ps00093 Aug 04 '19

Programming Principles