The "inspect" option on a web page--Why?

Factual Questions
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A certain large worldwide liquor distributer required us (small team of contractors) to take an online test for their system, written in Flash.

Because I am A) a nerd, and B) love Flash actionscript, I hit F12 on my MacBook to watch the traffic.

For reasons I cannot explain, each HTTP POST request included both my answer, AND the correct answer.

I passed the test. On the second attempt, as I wrote down all the answers. I scored 100%.

I am now accredited with a company I almost certainly will never will deal with again. Now Flash is dead, I hope they have changed their tactics.

The “Inspect” window in my browser really helped getting through some exceptionally boring corporate bullshit.

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Real programmers build systems that actually do something useful.

“Coders” play with LEGO blocks and have no clue as to what they do or how they work.

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Which is relevant to the thread how?

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They wouldn’t know. They’re just a coder.

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He was answering one of the questions in the OP.

Though not really accurately. I say as a retired Programmer/Analyst. What he is describing as a Coder is what I would call a Script Kiddie.

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Close! I’m on Linux (Ubuntu, to be more specific). Control-C is sends a signal that ends the current program that I’m running in the shell. In that specific case, Control-Shift-C is for copy.

I’m an old-school unixy programmer. My work day is split between three interfaces: Chrome (e-mail, Google drive, etc), a graphical text editor (I use Sublime Text), and a command window (for running builds, accessing development hardware, and more). Two of the three use good ol’ Control-C.

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Ah. Thank you.

I got a real whiff of overweening contempt off that post but couldn’t quite tell what it was aimed at. From somebody who joined last week that tripped my alert.

Perhaps I was hasty or overreactive. We shall see.

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I always forget about Ctrl-Shift-C, as I never use it to open the Inspector. Either I will want to inspect something specific and will use the right click option, or I need to do something to the page as a whole, which means I want the Console, which uses Ctrl-Shift-J (or Ctrl-Shift-K in Firefox).

I would have hoped that whatever way you were remapping Ctrl-C to Ctrl-Shift-C would be able to override the browser shortcut. (Though I admit I nearly always copy text with the mouse. I don’t like using the arrows to highlight text, and if I’m already using the mouse, right clicking usually seems easier. Now, when pasting, I very often use the keyboard.)

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It’s actually default behavior on the terminal window, because control-C for “cancel this action” has existed longer than “copy to clipboard”. I never thought about remapping…maybe I can find something that does let me remap in the Chrome context. Thanks for the idea! I’ll take a look.

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If nothing else, AutoHotkey coild probably do it.