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Re:Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I... by chillacy on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:57AM (#22921521)
Supposedly the entire reason Qwerty was designed was to prevent typewriters from jamming by making the keys as disambiguous as possible, which is now ironically ideal on tiny screens.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I... by kqr on Monday April 20, 2020 @10:36AM (#22924132)
Indeed. All the reasons Qwerty are bad for 10 finger typing are specifically the reasons it's fairly good for tiny touchscreen typing!
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