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Most people with complaints about computer vision have dry eyes from not blinking enough. The solution is as simple as looking away from the screen every few minutes, thinking about if your eyes are "tired", and blinking. You can go to the restroom and splash water in your eyes. There are saline eyedrops or "artificial tears" too, depending if you can stand putting drops in your eyes.
If you notice that your eyestrain headaches are worse during allergy season, then you probably have an allergy contributing to making your eyes dry (duh). A non-drowsy antihistamine like Allegra or Citirizine is helpful. If you are outside the US where you may have to work around smokers, I can tell you from personal experience that the smoke is what's giving you those awful headaches every afternoon. Again, antihistamines can help, but murdering the smoker slowly may be more satisfying. Bwah-ha-ha.
As they approach middle age, most people begin to suffer from presbyopia, loss of the ability to quickly change focus from close to far and far to close. The little muscles that change the shape of your eye get stiff. This can cause headaches. There are special glasses that may improve this situation, but it can be as simple as closing your eyes for a moment when you are forced to look away from the monitor.
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IDE keyboard shortcuts become second nature to developers. So much so, that we expect them to work everywhere. Like ctrl-C does. What shortcuts do you find yourself trying to use where they don't work?
For me, I'm always trying to delete or move lines with the Visual Studio ctrl-l (delete line), and alt-[arrow] (move line up or down) in things like Word.
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Ctrl-Shift-Esc-F3-A - don't you just love Emacs? 
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Isn't that the "spawn SkyNet™" hot key?
Software Zen: delete this;
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I remap a lot of the VS keystrokes to things I like better, like Ctrl+G (for Go) for run without debug, and Ctrl+D for debug. Whenever I'm helping someone else, I have to remember the default keystrokes. Not that hard, but annoying. One of the reasons pair programming doesn't work, IMO.
Marc
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Messes with reinstalls too when you haven't saved your config  .
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RandyBuchholz wrote: Messes with reinstalls too when you haven't saved your config
Yeah, learned that the hard way. But even if I forget to save the config, I have several other computers and VM's config'd the same way, so I can (and have) grabbed it from another machine.
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Esc :wq
Strangely enough it doesn't do anything useful in Word!
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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I didn't know Word did anything useful to start with. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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As a Word user since the earliest "Word for Windows" days, I think your statement needs a little refinement. I think it should read:
"Microsoft hasn't added anything useful to Word in a long time (at least since 2003)."
At that, they've removed a number of useful features or rendered them less effective, all in the name of security.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I just wish Win10 was better at running 16 bit apps: Ami Pro was so much better than Word - and it was so tiny!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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AmiPro?
I thought you might be relieved to know that I found a little patch of dirt that is still older than you. (and me)!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Win10 was better at running 16 bit apps
For what it's worth, I use VirtualBox to run an MS-DOS virtual machine in order to build a certain [very damned old] product using Microsoft C 6.0.
I'm sure you could do the same to run Ami Pro  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Try Esc ZZ. I haven't tried it, but I assume it will work.
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One thing that irritates me enormously is that in Outlook 365, which I have to use at work, Ctrl + F means something different than Find. All Microsoft products interpret this as Find, but not Outlook 365 for some strange reason … 
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PF4 / Gold-PF4 delete line / undelete line.
(If I recall correctly.)
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Wow, that was the EDT command on DEC VT terminals...
We had mostly paper terminals <esc>EX<esc><esc>
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Yuppers. 
Sadly, my VT220 went zap.
Trying to use EDT in an emulator is frustrating, but at least I have one that emulates Gold pretty well.
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Ctrl+K
In Eclipse it means: find-next. In VS it does nothing (except that small message about waiting the second keystroke)... However if I do not realize my mistake and hit it again I set a bookmark... Now Ctrl+K, F3 is invalid, so I already at 3 hits...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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CTRL+SHIFT+B gets me - "Build" in VS, "Toggle bookmarks" in Chrome.
And F5 is "Refresh" yes? Not in Outlook - that's F9. Except in Live Mail, it's back to F5 ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Different versions of Visual Studio have their Build keys mapped differently. In some cases it's F6, other CTRL+B, and I've even see CTRL+SHIFT+F6
That is the most annoying blasted thing MS does - LEAVE THE DAMN KEYS THE SAME FROM ONE VERSION TO THE NEXT!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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ctrl-G. I used to love ringing the bell.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Try switching between Visual Studio and Xcode on a frequent, ad-hoc basis. It does your head in (and VS is a lot nicer).
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