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Is DVORAK Gaining Traction Among Coders?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slow-news-day dept.

coderpath asks: "At a recent Seattle Ruby Brigade hack night someone asked how many people used the DVORAK keyboard layout. Out of 9 people, 7 used DVORAK and only 2 were using QWERTY. I personally made the switch last Christmas, after 25 years of typing with QWERTY. What do you use? Have you switched to DVORAK? Have you been wanting to make the switch? Has anyone else noticed an increase in adoption of DVORAK lately?"

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  1. Re:If only the cost was less... by aliquis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Just like people who buy Zunes and iRivers so they can show how cool and different they are because they didn't buy an iPod."

    I don't care about the zune but yes, that and player software which doesn't suck, UMS-support, decent equalizers/sound, more sound format support, better battery life, radio, line-in and voice recording, and probably at a cheaper price aswell.

    Thought iRivers players haven't been as good after the IFP-line, the E10 is said to be ok, T50 and T60 looks interesting.

    I'd rather go for the iAudio U3 or D2 or the Samsung YP-Z5/YP-T9 thought (over the E10 that is, T60 might be nice.)

    There are no rockbox for the Nano 2nd gen afaik so it can't be fixed either.

  2. Re:If only the cost was less... by ThinkingInBinary · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yay for the iAudio U3. I've got one. It's got 2 GB storage, it's tiny, the sound is great, the battery life is great, and it always wows people when I show them that it can play semi-decent video on a device that small with a 1.25" diagonal screen.

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  3. Re:Vim by MrAnnoyanceToYou · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My qualm about Dvorak has always been that I don't exactly know where the brackets and schtuff all go in Dvorak, so I would have a bit of a problem with that. I still look at my keyboard for squigglies and the top row of characters. My Bad. But if they change in Dvorak, how can I find them without labels on my keys? Yeah, yeah. Lazy lazy me, and all. But then, I didn't 'take' to touch typing for a very, very long time.

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