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A media control knob would be useful - push up and turn to fast-forward/rewind, down and turn for volume. Push left/right for previous/next. Also, what's with
by yarg 3y ago
A media control knob would be useful - push up and turn to fast-forward/rewind, down and turn for volume. Push left/right for previous/next.
Also, what's with the f/j keyboard bumps - just put braille on every key. We'd all end up learning it without even trying to.
As a programmer, I never really understood why the people who designed keyboards wouldn't have done so in a way that allowed for more common technical uses - why didn't they throw in a row of common mathematical symbols?
That could also have impacted language design:
i = Σ(a, b, c);
- gsliepen 3y agoHow about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols#APL2_keyboard_function_to_symbol_mapping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols#APL2_ke...
- AlbertoGP 3y ago> As a programmer, I never really understood why the people who designed keyboards wouldn't have done so in a way that allowed for more common technical uses - why didn't they throw in a row of common mathematical symbols? Such keyboards were made in the 70/80s: http://xahlee.info/kbd/lisp_keyboards.html http://xahlee.info/kbd/lisp_keyboards.html The current standard keyboards come from a different evolutionary branch with a much more limited view of the possible uses for a computer.