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"Lies"?! Are they sure that's strong enough? Perhaps "conspiracy" would be more appropriate. The byline could be, "This One Weird Fact That Makes Typists Angry"

by to3m 14y ago

"Lies"?! Are they sure that's strong enough? Perhaps "conspiracy" would be more appropriate. The byline could be, "This One Weird Fact That Makes Typists Angry" :)

coldtea 14y ago
Funny you should say that, because it indeed was a one-man conspiracy. (For people that don't know it, conspiracy does not necessarily imply tinfoil, aliens or illuminati -- as an example, covert action to harm others for own benefit will do). Dvorak, who had money to gain for his alternative keyboard, falsified research and oversold the improvements, to promote his work over Qwerty.
- to3m 14y ago
  My point was more the strength of language relative to the seriousness of the issue at stake - or, more precisely, the non-issues that aren't really at stake at all. I couldn't count how many people I've met who can type fine on a QWERTY keyboard, but I can count on one finger (one finger... of one hand!) the number of people I've met who can type on a Dvorak keyboard. And that one finger would be counting me. Or maybe you can just assume I've never met myself - and then I don't even need any fingers at all. (I once worked with a contract programmer, who had been somewhat famous in his own way in the past. Aged mid 40s I guess, so he'd been doing this for 25 years or whatever. Anyway, due to his line of work, and his fame, I'm figuring he'd met a lot of people over this period. And apparently I was the very first person he'd ever met to use the Dvorak layout.) "Storm in a teacup"? LOL, as they say. Doesn't even begin to describe it...
  - coldtea 14y ago
    In that case I agree. Though, one man's teacup could be another man's sea. I mean, we discus like Vim vs Emacs, or CL vs Clojure all the time, things that are also totally peripheral and unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

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"Lies"?! Are they sure that's strong enough? Perhaps "conspiracy" would be more appropriate. The byline could be, "This One Weird Fact That Makes Typists Angry"

by to3m 14y ago

"Lies"?! Are they sure that's strong enough? Perhaps "conspiracy" would be more appropriate. The byline could be, "This One Weird Fact That Makes Typists Angry" :)

coldtea 14y ago
Funny you should say that, because it indeed was a one-man conspiracy. (For people that don't know it, conspiracy does not necessarily imply tinfoil, aliens or illuminati -- as an example, covert action to harm others for own benefit will do). Dvorak, who had money to gain for his alternative keyboard, falsified research and oversold the improvements, to promote his work over Qwerty.
- to3m 14y ago
  My point was more the strength of language relative to the seriousness of the issue at stake - or, more precisely, the non-issues that aren't really at stake at all. I couldn't count how many people I've met who can type fine on a QWERTY keyboard, but I can count on one finger (one finger... of one hand!) the number of people I've met who can type on a Dvorak keyboard. And that one finger would be counting me. Or maybe you can just assume I've never met myself - and then I don't even need any fingers at all. (I once worked with a contract programmer, who had been somewhat famous in his own way in the past. Aged mid 40s I guess, so he'd been doing this for 25 years or whatever. Anyway, due to his line of work, and his fame, I'm figuring he'd met a lot of people over this period. And apparently I was the very first person he'd ever met to use the Dvorak layout.) "Storm in a teacup"? LOL, as they say. Doesn't even begin to describe it...
  - coldtea 14y ago
    In that case I agree. Though, one man's teacup could be another man's sea. I mean, we discus like Vim vs Emacs, or CL vs Clojure all the time, things that are also totally peripheral and unimportant in the grand scheme of things.