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Re:Speed Matters by dharmaturtle on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:06PM (#28882519)
I can't touch type symbols. (!@#$%^&*)

I can feel my brain stutter every time I need to type an esoteric operator.

...okay I know what I'm doing this weekend.

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Re:Speed Matters by copperx on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:41PM (#28882918)
It's not that hard as learning to touch type the entire alphabet! And I don't consider those symbols esoteric, unless you're programming Lisp.
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Re:Speed Matters by dan-robertson on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:45PM (#28884009)
Mostly you would only use (*) from that list for lisp. Some lisp hackers are known to remap the first row of their keyboard to be shifted so that one needn’t hold shift to type parens.
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Re:Speed Matters by fijiaarone on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @08:13PM (#28925327)
I thought you were going to say they map the first row of their keyboard to parentheses -- which I guess is only a bit further.
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Re:Speed Matters by godDLL on Sunday October 17, 2021 @03:37AM (#28894665)
I can pretty much cord things like Cmd-Shift-[ or the above without thinking about it, any hand, holding a drink or lighting up. It feels right.

...You should

<3

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