I am in my late 50s. Once, in a contracting role, a young chap probably less than half my age said ' you are so old and yet you are still doing this'. It was meant as a good thing, but, I am slower than the kids these days. However my depth of knowledge and ability to both understand and learn is far greater now than it ever has been and that is worth a lot especially when added to my experience. I have had to keep up with new technology for longer than most other contractors have been alive - and although I have done it, and do it better now than ever - I find it hard not to use old systems I know and trust rather than new ones that may be faster but hide tremendous amounts of assumptions within the workings of the IDE or Framework settings. I think my code is more stable and will last, also, I am happy to stay with an employer for decades if they last that long - I'm always in it for the long term, not continually moving on. Effort spent training me to do things the 'in house' way will pay an employer dividends far greater than getting one piece of work done quickly.
Instead of adhering to the qwerty paradigm that has its roots in mechanical typewriters, why no used a different layout? Or even get away from the whole keyboard mindset?
ok, come up with a new keyboard layout and see how long it will get accepted........
I have re-created an alternative keyboard to QWERTY - it is based on the Qunikey chording input system devised originally by Doug Engelbart. I call it SiWriter. It runs on the iPad and can be downloaded from the Appstore. See siwriter.co.uk for full info. The App is frankly not selling - people are so heavily wedded to Qwerty. I'm continually developing it - when I'm not looking for or doing paid work and its utility is increasing with each update. The faster the iPad the better too !
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I am in my late 50s. Once, in a contracting role, a young chap probably less than half my age said ' you are so old and yet you are still doing this'. It was meant as a good thing, but, I am slower than the kids these days. However my depth of knowledge and ability to both understand and learn is far greater now than it ever has been and that is worth a lot especially when added to my experience. I have had to keep up with new technology for longer than most other contractors have been alive - and although I have done it, and do it better now than ever - I find it hard not to use old systems I know and trust rather than new ones that may be faster but hide tremendous amounts of assumptions within the workings of the IDE or Framework settings. I think my code is more stable and will last, also, I am happy to stay with an employer for decades if they last that long - I'm always in it for the long term, not continually moving on. Effort spent training me to do things the 'in house' way will pay an employer dividends far greater than getting one piece of work done quickly.
Instead of adhering to the qwerty paradigm that has its roots in mechanical typewriters, why no used a different layout? Or even get away from the whole keyboard mindset?
ok, come up with a new keyboard layout and see how long it will get accepted........
I have re-created an alternative keyboard to QWERTY - it is based on the Qunikey chording input system devised originally by Doug Engelbart. I call it SiWriter. It runs on the iPad and can be downloaded from the Appstore. See siwriter.co.uk for full info. The App is frankly not selling - people are so heavily wedded to Qwerty. I'm continually developing it - when I'm not looking for or doing paid work and its utility is increasing with each update. The faster the iPad the better too !