Re:What's wrong with having '.' in your $PATH?
by xorglorb on Sunday November 14, 2010 @01:04PM
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Actually QWERTY was created to slow typists down. Back in ye olde days, when typewriters were still around, there was the problem where people who typed to fast would jam the typewriters. Thus, QWERTY was invented to slow people down so the typewriters wouldn't jam. Then, when computers came along, everybody knew QWERTY, so they continued using it.
Re:What's wrong with having '.' in your $PATH?
by stephencelis on Sunday November 14, 2010 @11:45PM
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That's an apocryphal story, though. QWERTY was said to have been invented, actually, to make it easier for typewriter salesmen to type "TYPEWRITER", all from the top row.
When I see someone coding with a non-us layout I smell the humble inexperience and nod with compassion. The difference between layouts can be astonishing if you only bang a lots of []{}|/\?-=+_-*()@#$'s. For some reason, computer languages are full of those.
I use the us layout all the time except when I have to write something in my native language and need the umlauts more easily. I remember the killing pain of trying to write code in it until I realized I can just turn on the US keyboard. Luckily, that was before my career...