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by avidiax 1548 days ago
The nerd in me wants to like the newer "more efficient" keyboard layouts, but as I progress in my career, the value of raw typing speed on one particular machine (or all your personal machines) seems to drop.

Being able to type on a peer or customer's machine, without struggling with QWERTY vs Colemak is definitely worth something. The problems you solve get more difficult and abstract, so you are writing more difficult but less code.

The big exception that I can think of is that RSI can really put you out of action, so some adjustments or investment in that area can pay off. I have a Kinesis Advantage2 that fits in this category. It took some time to get used to, and it definitely slows you down on every other keyboard once you are used to it, but I find the ergonomics to be worthwhile, even if I retain the QWERTY layout.
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melling 1548 days ago
20 years ago I saw Minority Report and thought we wouldn’t need keyboards by now.

Voice recognition, gestures, eye tracking,…

Google’s Soli is 7 years old:

https://atap.google.com/soli/technology/

What happened to the future?

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