Re:Alex Payne - Rules for Computing Happiness (2008)
by msquared on Monday May 09, 2011 @08:48AM
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Combining "Buy a portable computer instead" and "The only peripheral you absolutely need is a hard disk or network drive to put backups on" doesn't make sense. I don't know about you, but my productivity tanks the second I don't have a mouse.
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Re:Alex Payne - Rules for Computing Happiness (2008)
by technomancy on Monday May 09, 2011 @09:04AM
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That's weird--I'm way more productive when I'm not using a mouse.
Re:Alex Payne - Rules for Computing Happiness (2008)
by jff on Monday May 09, 2011 @12:34PM
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You just think you're more productive because you get to slam "jjjjjjjjjjjjlllllllllll" to position your cursor.
Use the mouse for what it's good at: pointing at things and selecting text. Use the keyboard for what it's good at: entering text, such as regular expressions to transform the code you just highlighted.
Re:Alex Payne - Rules for Computing Happiness (2008)
by technomancy on Monday May 09, 2011 @01:49PM
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> you get to slam "jjjjjjjjjjjjlllllllllll" to position your cursor.
Incremental search, dude.
Re:Alex Payne - Rules for Computing Happiness (2008)
by runjake on Monday May 09, 2011 @11:09AM
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It probably largely depends on your platform. In Alex's case, he uses a Mac laptop, which has a trackpad. Apple has done a bang-up job of making the trackpad useful and dare I say "expressive" in Mac OS X.
On the Mac, the latest gens of their trackpads have obsoleted mice for me.