How to install

The easiest way to install Measure is:

• Package Control
• HTMLPrettify
• Emmet
• Bracket Highlighter
• jQuery
• Case Conversion

Package Control

The Basics

Before we dive into the extensive list of Vim movement commands, let’s wet our feet with a couple of basics.

There are two ways to move the cursor left/down/up/right. You can either use the arrow keys (like you would in any other editor), or you can use:

• h – Moves the cursor left
• j – Moves the cursor down
• k – Moves the cursor up
• l – Moves the cursor right

Given the two options, which one should you use? It depends. Generally, you’ll want to use h/j/k/l as it is more efficient (being in the home row). In addition, as we’ll see later, there are many combinations that rely on the h/j/k/l movement that might not work with the arrow keys. However, when you are in edit mode, the arrow keys are generally the only way to move the cursor without first exiting edit mode. The only exception to this is that “Control+O” (that’s “oh”, not “zero”) allows you to temporary pause edit mode to enter a single movement command.

Patterns

Before we move on, here are a couple of patterns you’ll want to keep in mind.

Firstly, you can prefix almost any movement command with a number. For example, as you now know, “h” moves the cursor to the left. “4h” moves the cursor 4 positions to the left and is equivalent to pressing “hhhh”. Secondly, upper and lower case commands that share the same letter generally related (for example, “w” and “W”). Sometimes they will do the exact opposite, other times they will do the same thing but in different ways. However, they are almost always linked in some way.

The First and the Last

The home/end keys work for most versions, but as you can already guess, Vim can do much more!

Moving to the Beginning of a Line

• 0 – Moves the cursor to the line’s first column
• ^ – Moves the cursor to the line’s first non-whitespace character
• I – Like ^, but also enters into edit mode (mnemonic: “Insert at the beginning of a line”)
• S – Like “I”, but it erases the entire line (mnemonic: “Substitute a line”)
• o – Like “I”, but moves the cursor the beginning of the line below, inserting a new line
• O – Like “I”, but moves the cursor the beginning of the line above, inserting a new line

Moving to the End of a Line

• $ – Moves the cursor to the end of a line
• A – Like “$”, but also enters into edit mode (mnemonic: “Append to a line”)

Moving to the Beginning and End of a Document

• gg – Moves the cursor to beginning of the document
• G – Moves the cursor to the start of the document’s last line. You must use “G$” to get to the true end of the document

Moving Relative to the Screen

• H – Moves the cursor to the start of the screen’s first line (mnemonic: “High”)
• M – Moves the cursor to the start of the screen’s middle line (mnemonic: “Middle”)
• L – Moves the cursor to the start of the screen’s last line (mnemonic: “Low”)

There’s More!

Before We Begin

The “vimrc” (Vim resource configuration) file provides initialization settings that configure Vim every time it starts. This file can be found in “$HOME/.vimrc” for Linux/OSX and “$HOME/_vimrc” for Windows users. Inside Vim, type “:echo $HOME” to see the value of “$HOME” for your system.

Indention Options

• set autoindent: New lines inherit the indentation of previous lines.
• set expandtab: Convert tabs to spaces.
• set filetype indent on: Enable indentation rules that are file-type specific.
• set shiftround: When shifting lines, round the indentation to the nearest multiple of “shiftwidth.”
• set shiftwidth=4: When shifting, indent using four spaces.
• set smarttab: Insert “tabstop” number of spaces when the “tab” key is pressed.
• set tabstop=4: Indent using four spaces.

Search Options

• set hlsearch: Enable search highlighting.
• set ignorecase: Ignore case when searching.
• set incsearch: Incremental search that shows partial matches.
• set smartcase: Automatically switch search to case-sensitive when search query contains an uppercase letter.

Performance Options

• set complete-=i: Limit the files searched for auto-completes.
• set lazyredraw: Don’t update screen during macro and script execution.

Text Rendering Options

• set display+=lastline: Always try to show a paragraph’s last line.
• set encoding=utf-8: Use an encoding that supports unicode.
• set linebreak: Avoid wrapping a line in the middle of a word.
• set scrolloff=1: The number of screen lines to keep above and below the cursor.
• set sidescrolloff=5: The number of screen columns to keep to the left and right of the cursor.
• syntax enable: Enable syntax highlighting.
• set wrap: Enable line wrapping.

User Interface Options

• set laststatus=2: Always display the status bar.
• set ruler: Always show cursor position.
• set wildmenu: Display command line’s tab complete options as a menu.
• set tabpagemax=50: Maximum number of tab pages that can be opened from the command line.
• set colorscheme wombat256mod: Change color scheme.
• set cursorline: Highlight the line currently under cursor.
• set number: Show line numbers on the sidebar.
• set relativenumber: Show line number on the current line and relative numbers on all other lines.
• set noerrorbells: Disable beep on errors.
• set visualbell: Flash the screen instead of beeping on errors.
• set mouse=a: Enable mouse for scrolling and resizing.
• set title: Set the window’s title, reflecting the file currently being edited.
• set background=dark: Use colors that suit a dark background.

Code Folding Options

• set foldmethod=indent: Fold based on indention levels.
• set foldnestmax=3: Only fold up to three nested levels.
• set nofoldenable: Disable folding by default.

Miscellaneous Options

• set autoread: Automatically re-read files if unmodified inside Vim.
• set backspace=indent,eol,start: Allow backspacing over indention, line breaks and insertion start.
• set backupdir=~/.cache/vim: Directory to store backup files.
• set confirm: Display a confirmation dialog when closing an unsaved file.
• set dir=~/.cache/vim: Directory to store swap files.
• set formatoptions+=j: Delete comment characters when joining lines.
• set hidden: Hide files in the background instead of closing them.
• set history=1000: Increase the undo limit.
• set nomodeline: Ignore file’s mode lines; use vimrc configurations instead.
• set noswapfile: Disable swap files.
• set nrformats-=octal: Interpret octal as decimal when incrementing numbers.
• set shell: The shell used to execute commands.
• set spell: Enable spellchecking.
• set wildignore+=.pyc,.swp: Ignore files matching these patterns when opening files based on a glob pattern.

Hopefully, these settings help you configure Vim to suit your preferences. If not, there are 330 other settings to explore!

1. Pathogen

The Evil Red Ninja was spat out of his whore of a mother, somewhere on the souther slopes of the Caucasus mountains. He learned to terrify the locals at an early age but soon outgrew his provincial surroundings. He ceaselessly and mercilessly trained his body and mind to be the most unspeakably evil being the world had ever know. He then got a job at Comcast.

When he鈥檚 not trying to make your life a cesspool of hopelessness he enjoys watching children cry, going to Evil Ninja meetup groups, and cuddling with his cat, Adolf Hitler.

Seriously though, the fight section is designed to be fun. Challenging but fun. The difference between knowledge and a skill is repetition. You might know a shortcut in your head. But to solidify the kinesthesia our fingers requires practice. Gamifying such repetition goes a long way to keep you going while you amass those necessary repetitions.

The fight section also adds some stress. Stress is not inherently bad. Sometimes it makes us better, sharper, and better prepared. To practice being stressed is to remove stress. We want you to integrate shortcuts into you daily work 鈥?if thinking about shortcuts stress you, then you鈥檙e not going to use them. We stress you during the fight so you鈥檙e not stressed at work. Or, as the old maxim says, 鈥淐ry in the Dojo, Laugh on the Battlefield.鈥?/p> ]]> 2014-09-16T07:31:00-04:00 http://www.cccute.com/blog/division-of-startup-equity-for-pirates The daily standup got a bit heated that morning

How it normally works

We鈥檝e been thinking about equity this week 鈥?and the problems there in. Lets invent a hypothetical SEO firm called Pirates Incorporated. No… that鈥檚 not techie enough. How about we call them, PyrateSpace. Better. Now we鈥檒l need a Founder / CEO to start. Shortly after that, other first hires join up (assuming they鈥檙e not already there at the moment of inception.) They do what they can, for as long as they can. But inevitably, they鈥檒l need a full staff of developers and a staff to manage those developers.

It鈥檚 a startup. As such, everyone there works really hard, really long hours. There鈥檚 camaraderie: ping pong tables, lots of drinking, and seemingly endless amounts of free cereal. Eventually there is great success. Early traction leads to more traction. Traction leads to lots of early and well respected VC. Respected VC leads to an couple incredible funding rounds. And now it鈥檚 time to exit. Luckily, the investor class doesn鈥檛 understands their product too well 鈥?but it looks like there鈥檚 a boatload of monitizable elements. Their company is then sold to a multinational, which has more money than innovation, for 100 million dollars.

Here鈥檚 the question: Where does all that money go? In most cases, it largely goes to the CEO and the early-in crowd. Which is great for them. They all get a crazy amount of money. The grunts on the ground (a group I鈥檒l be calling 鈥渢he Crew鈥?鈥?the development team, the marketing department, HR, etc.) have to be satisfied with whatever is left for them when it鈥檚 finally their turn at the bar.

This is a problem. Mostly because there鈥檚 little incentive in this model for the crew. They get a job, work it for 22 months, 60 hours a week, then upon exit are given an insultingly small bonus and shown the door. Their hard work made someone else rich. Do this a few times and the whole startup culture starts to loose its appeal for the crew. They end up abandoning startups all together and start looking for a larger, and more reliable paycheck at one of those aforementioned multinationals. Their experience goes with them out of the startup ecosystem, and the whole ecosystem suffers.

A Lesson From Pirates

Objectively, living on a boat at sea in the 19th century must have been awful. Death from cannon fire, storms, or infectious diseases awaited you. Your only luxuries were hard tack dinners and watered down rum. So why do it? Simple. It payed well. Whether you worked as a pirate, privateer, or in the Royal Navy the economic model was similar: chase down enemy allied merchant ships, take them as a prize, then take everything in their hold and sell it.

They had the similar division of equity problem. Obviously the Captain was in charge. His good decisions and leadership brought success or failure. But he wouldn鈥檛 have gotten very far without the crew. There were many iterations of Prize Money distribution. I鈥檒l take a mid 19th century formula for simplicity.

All winnings were divided by eights. The Captain was allotted 2/8ths. 1/8th was divided among the next down the chain of command (the Leftenants, Sailing Master, Captain of Marines.) Another eight was divided among the warrant officers (lesser officers like carpenter, boatswain, gunner, purser, etc.) The remaining 4/8ths was divided among the crew (junior warrant and petty officers, crew.)

It would look like this: 1/8 Captain 1/8 Command Officers 1/8 Warrant Officers 4/8 Crew

Lets apply these numbers to our startup. Let鈥檚 just say, for fantasy鈥檚 simplicity, that the 100M needs to be divided just among those in the room and it鈥檚 a company of 53 people. There is a CEO, a C-Suite of 4, 12 Department Heads, and 36 everybody else (developers, marketing, HR, etc.) Divided the historical Naval way it would look like this:

1/8 CEO ($25 million) 1/8 C-Suite ($3.13 million per person) 1/8 Department heads ($1.04 million per person) 4/8 Crew ($347,000 per person)

Even the most lowly at this startup gets to leave with a nice healthy chunk of change. It鈥檚 not a bad way to end your employment. Moreover, you鈥檙e back in line to try it again. No more startup brain drain.

Also, you get to tell people that your startup鈥檚 fiscal model is based on 19th century pirating. Which is a pretty cool thing to mention at bars.

Meet August Zang. Born to a prominent surgeon in Vienna, Zang started his professional life as an artillery officer. It was a fine and promising career path for a young man, but one which lost his interest. His entrepreneurial spirit needed an outlet. When he was 30 years old he left home with a plan to bring Viennese style baked goods to Paris.

The disruption he brought with him was called Steam Baking. In steam baked breads, or pastries, steam is injected into the oven as it cooks. The steam slows the formation of the crust and makes the outside of the bread flakier and thinner. In the case of croissants it can make a very thin crust with a moist interior.

In 1839, Zang opened 鈥淏oulangerie Viennoise,鈥?which found immediate acclaim and popularity. Parisians could not get enough of his delicious baguettes, croissants, brioche, and other baked goods which came to be known as Viennoiseries. Imitators sprouted up all over Paris. You read that right. The croissant, probably the most French thing you can think off right now, was introduced to Paris, and popularized, by an Austrian.

At that point Zang could have coasted on his considerable success. But just like his previous career, he had bigger fish to… saut茅, I suppose.

In 1848, revolution spread across Europe and Latin America like wildfire. Dozens of countries erupted as the middle class demanded more participation in government, a more free press, and a fairer chance to succeed. Pretty much all of these revolutions failed within a year. But there were lessons to be learned. Zang learned that daily newspapers, the fuel which fired these revolutions, were the wave of the future of communications. Some 10 years after he left, Zang moved back to Vienna to get into publishing.

He started a newspaper modeled after the Paris newspaper, 鈥淟a Presse.鈥?The idea was simple: smaller articles, advertising tucked in everywhere, and make it as cheap as you can make possibly make it. He became the father of the Austrian daily newspaper when he founded his paper, 鈥淒ie Press.鈥?Some 166 years later Die Press is still in business. As such, the world ended up remembering Zang as a press mogul, and eventually a wealthy banker and mine owner, but not as a baker.

There are three important things to learn from the life of August Zang:

1. All things are ripe for disruption always. When we think of disruption we don鈥檛 think of bread. It鈥檚 had been a staple food for a couple millennia. But there was room there for disruption. Same could be said about newspapers. The model barely changed for a couple of centuries. But there was space for better ideas in their model. The opportunity to improve is all around. Which brings us to…

2. Heads Up! Ideas are everywhere. Zang became a man of wealth and power by taking an idea he learned in Vienna and moving it to Paris, and then by taking ideas he learned in Paris and moving them to Vienna. Get out there. Learn from everyone. And never stop consuming information.

3. Don鈥檛 be afraid to try something radically new. How does an artillery officer become a bakery owner, to a publishing baron, to a banker? What these things have in common is leadership. The specifics change but the ability to have vision and take people to that vision is the same. So don鈥檛 be afraid 鈥?you already have every thing you could need. Just go for it.

The key is in understanding when you鈥檙e going to forget. You鈥檙e not going to forget in four sentences, but you鈥檒l probably forget within 24 hours. Maybe you鈥檒l forget in 18. Maybe 36 hours.

The algorithm shortcutFoo uses is known as a Spaced Repetition Algorithm. What it does is predict when you are going to forget. Once it knows when you鈥檙e going to forget it can bring up an item for review before you actually forget it. If the algorithm knows you鈥檙e going to forget in 3 days, it brings up the item for review in 2 days. With each review the time you are able remember that fact elongates. Your reviews start with a space of one day between them, then maybe 2 days, then 4, then 7, then 18. It all depends on you and your brain. The end result is a complete internalization of that fact. It will be a part of you. No recall necessary.

This is why you can do the Learn section of each unit of shortcuts only once a day. With the Learn section you are customizing the algorithm to your brain鈥檚 memorization cycle. The practice happens in the Fight section.

Stay tuned for Part II: The Fight Section

Maybe the most important questions is somewhere in the neighborhood of both of our motivations. For me, my motivation as a author is easy to understand. I want you to click on that link. It would be nice if you enjoyed the article. It would also be nice if you shared it with your friends and colleagues. But primarily, I just want you to click the link, drive up my click through numbers, and make me more employable and more worthy of ad revenue.

But you. Why did you come here? Don鈥檛 get me wrong. In this world there are fun and nearly non-connectible topics and issues that can be to put together. Honestly, there is plenty Silicon Valley can learn about the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Or what managers could learn about Captain Cook鈥檚 leadership style. Or what HR could learn from understanding the Chinese Imperial Examination system of the Ming Dynasty.

But ultimately these thing are just obfuscations. They are distractions that prey on your insecurities. When you see 鈥? Things That You Can鈥檛 Afford Not To Know About Canoes,鈥?one finds themselves asking, 鈥淐ould that be true? Could there be, well, anything that I can鈥檛 afford to know about canoes?鈥?/p>

Here鈥檚 the plea I鈥檓 making. Ignore these things. You don鈥檛 need them. Keep your head up, keep your eyes open, and you鈥檙e bound to learn everything you need to accomplish your goals. Trust yourself.

And get back to work.

Some people have asked, 鈥淲hy the reboot?鈥? Good question! It鈥檚 been working great for lots of people. We even have users who haven鈥檛 missed a day in over a year. Their dedication astounds us! We meer mortals are lucky if we put on clean clothes in the morning.

Ironically, the reason we have changed our product is because we believe in it.

We believe that thorough knowledge of keyboard shortcuts can unleash creativity through fluidity. We believe that a good spaced repetition algorithm can help people learn faster and with greater retention. And we believe that most people are willing to work today to be better tomorrow.

The question is, how do we convince the world of our ideas?

Do you remember in those old Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons? Coyote had a nasty habit of running off cliffs. Normally, he鈥檇 run off the cliff and keep running, as if the ground was still there, defying gravity. Eventually and inevitably he鈥檇 look down, realize that the ground was no longer beneath him, and fall straight down. Education, habit building, and growth are kind of like this. As long as you don鈥檛 look down, as long as you keep going, eyes on the horizon, anything can be accomplished.

So how do we keep from looking down?

The answer lies somewhere between distraction and entertainment. A pedagogy needs to be compelling enough that you don鈥檛 mind learning. Entertaining enough that you enjoy doing what you wouldn鈥檛 normally do.

Simply put: we wanted shortcutFoo to be more entertaining that it could be more effective. We wanted to build something that tricked you into being the person you鈥檝e wanted to be.

The thought of a daily routine can feel oppressive. Get up. Go to Work. Go Home. Go to Bed. Blah!

But what if your personal creative routine helped to spur your creativity, produce your best work in the shortest amount of time, and focus you on getting your life鈥檚 work done, not just your 鈥榤aking ends meet鈥?work.

What in the world am I talking about?

Some of the greatest creative minds of the last 300 years were just like you. Mozart, Darwin and Hugo are all lasting names in their fields, but they had to pay the bills too! So, the first step in building a personal creative routine is to figure out what your work is.

The first kind of work should be pretty obvious. This is the thing you have to perform every day to make the money to pay your electric bill and buy enough ramen to sustain life for one more month. We鈥檒l call this your Making Ends Meet work. Maybe this work is also your passion. If so, you can go ahead an skip the next paragraph.

But if your passion is developing an app from scratch or writing a novel, creating your YouTube channel on building the cast of Star Trek DS9 out of mini-marshmallows, or developing a faster way to do your taxes, then you have a second type of 鈥榳ork鈥?to prioritize in your creative routine. Imagine thinking of this passion or project as your 鈥楶rimary Work.鈥?/p>

What are your best times of day?

In addition to work we have to eat, exercise, socialize and sleep, but being a genius doesn鈥檛 necessarily mean you fit into the 9-5 mold of today鈥檚 working landscape.

Victor Hugo spent 1 hour every day writing. One hour! The rest of his time was spent 鈥榮ocializing鈥?and going to the barber! Seriously, he went to the barber every day.

Mozart spent twice as much time teaching lessons and giving performances to make ends meet than he did composing.

While Flaubert was writing Madame Bovary he wrote from 11:15pm to 1:30am because that is when his creative juices were flowing.

Point is, you might be a Mozart or a Flaubert. Hell, maybe you鈥檙e a Dickens. He exercised 90 minutes a day!

Start observing the times of day when you feel most creative and when you are most fatigued. If you have flexibility in your Make Ends Meet work schedule, try a few different modifications. If you don鈥檛, try arranging the hours you have outside of your MEM work in different arrangements.

You never know, your best creative programming might happen at 2am. Maybe your marshmallow genius is in full bloom from 6-7am.

Sticking with it!

A creative routine seems like a good idea, but what if you lay out a new routine and then just can鈥檛 stick with it?

Maybe this isn鈥檛 the right routine for you. Some self discipline is in order, of course. Re-arranging your day isn鈥檛 going to make every aspect of your life easy and splendid, but try to be objective when evaluating your new schedule. If you鈥檝e never tried it before, some trial and error will occur.

Also, check your priorities. Maybe you aren鈥檛 as into writing a novel as you think. There is no shame in that. Your time is the only finite commodity you have, so spend it wisely. Maybe the issue is your MEM work. Give some serious consideration to what your day job is doing to the rest of your life. It should be an enhancement, if at all possible.

If your routine and priorities are in then it鈥檚 time to suck it up and get back to work. To be a Tchaikovsky or a Freud or a Beethoven means getting up every day and putting in the effort. Work your routine and it can work for you. Get the most out of your 24 hours every day.

This article was written by shortcutFoo because we鈥檙e into getting work done faster. Learn shortcuts. Work faster. Have more time for whatever comes next in your day.

Major thanks to RJ Andrews of infowetrust.com for the infographic. All data originally coms from Mason Currey, author of DAILY RITUALS