On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Nick Williams < nicho...@nicholaswilliams.net> wrote:
> > On Aug 17, 2013, at 2:01 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > > On Aug 16, 2013, at 11:58 PM, Nick Williams wrote: > > > On Aug 17, 2013, at 1:54 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > That doesn't really help much. I find the syntax below oddly annoying. > What is strange is that I don't really mind it when there is only a single > '-' character but when there is more than one I find it irritating - > especially with size-based-triggering-policy. I can't tell you how many > times I hit '=' instead of '-' when typing it. > > > Well there's an easy and obvious solution to THAT. Switch to Dvorak. You > won't accidentally hit = instead of - then. QWERTY sucks. ;-) > > > Right. Instead I will mistype everything. :-) > > > Hah! > > Off topic, I switched about two years ago. Before I was touch typing 70-80 > WPM and my wrists hurt. All. The. Time. > > Now I touch type 100-110 WPM and my wrists rarely hurt anymore. QWERTY was > invented for the typewriter, and it was intended to prevent jams by slowing > typists down by moving all of the most commonly-used keys as far away from > each other as possible. This causes you to constantly stretch and stress > your fingers and wrists to type common words. Dvorak [1] was designed to > bring the 11 most common keys to the home row, the 12 most common keys to > the top row (second-easiest to reach), and the 10 least common keys to the > bottom row (hardest to reach). It's possible to type dozens of entire words > without your fingers leaving the home row. Only possible to type 1-2 that > way with QWERTY. > > [1] > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/KB_United_States_Dvorak.svg/400px-KB_United_States_Dvorak.svg.png > Which Dvorak keyboard would you get/recommend today? Gary -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
