Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Even on a modern keyboard, out of the ten most common digraphs:
th he in er an re nd at on nt
only er/re use consecutive keys,
Also keep in mind that E and R being adjacent on the
keyboard does *not* mean they're adjacent in the type
basket -- they're actually separated
On Monday 18 April 2016 12:01, Random832 wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016, at 21:39, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Oh no, it's the thread that wouldn't die! *wink*
>>
>> Actually, yes it is. At least, according to this website:
>>
>> http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/Dvorak/history.html
>
> I'd really rather see
On 04/17/2016 07:39 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Even though QWERTY wasn't designed with touch-typing in mind, it's
> interesting to look at some of the weaknesses of the system. It is almost
> as if it had been designed to make touch-typing as inefficient as
> possible :-) Just consider the home k
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> With QWERTY, the eight home keys only cover a fraction over a quarter of
> all key presses: ASDF JKL; have frequencies of
>
> 8.12% 6.28% 4.32% 2.30% 0.10% 0.69% 3.98% and effectively 0%
>
> making a total of 25.79%. If you also include G
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016, at 21:39, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Oh no, it's the thread that wouldn't die! *wink*
>
> Actually, yes it is. At least, according to this website:
>
> http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/Dvorak/history.html
I'd really rather see an instance of the claim not associated with
Dvorak marketi
Oh no, it's the thread that wouldn't die! *wink*
On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 01:53 am, Random832 wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016, at 23:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> This is the power of the "slowing typists down is a myth" meme: same
>> Wikipedia contributor takes an article which *clearly and obviously*
Ian Kelly on Sun, 10 Apr 2016 07:43:13 -0600
typed in comp.lang.python the following:
>On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 9:09 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
>> ASINTOER are the top eight English letters (not in any order, it
>> is just that "A Sin To Err" is easy to remember.
>
>What's so hard to reme
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 9:09 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
> ASINTOER are the top eight English letters (not in any order, it
> is just that "A Sin To Err" is easy to remember.
What's so hard to remember about ETA OIN SHRDLU? Plus that even gives
you the top twelve. :-)
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Dennis Lee Bieber on Sat, 09 Apr 2016 14:52:50
-0400 typed in comp.lang.python the following:
>On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 11:44:48 -0400, Random832
>declaimed the following:
>
>>I don't understand where this idea that alternating hands makes you
>>slows you down came from in the first place... I suspec
On 09/04/2016 22:23, Mark Lawrence via Python-list wrote:
[... snip ...]
Mark, you're ranting. Have a little dignity, please, and back off.
TJG
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On 04/09/2016 12:36 PM, Mark Lawrence via Python-list wrote:
Very amusing to see that some highly qualified 'moderators' have been so
bloody rude on other Python mailing lists in the last days. Do as I
say, not as I do?
Nope -- you should take that as all of us are human and sometimes our
te
On 09/04/2016 21:22, alister wrote:
On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 20:13:15 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 09/04/2016 01:43, Ben Finney wrote:
Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
Yet another completely irrelevant thread that has nothing to do with
Python. As this is meant to be the main Python mailing list, w
On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 20:13:15 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 09/04/2016 01:43, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
>>
>>
> Yet another completely irrelevant thread that has nothing to do with
> Python. As this is meant to be the main Python mailing list, why don't
> the moderators pu
On 09/04/2016 20:25, Tim Golden wrote:
On 09/04/2016 20:13, Mark Lawrence via Python-list wrote:
On 09/04/2016 01:43, Ben Finney wrote:
Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
Yet another completely irrelevant thread that has nothing to do with
Python. As this is meant to be the main Python mailing list
On 09/04/2016 20:13, Mark Lawrence via Python-list wrote:
On 09/04/2016 01:43, Ben Finney wrote:
Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
Yet another completely irrelevant thread that has nothing to do with
Python. As this is meant to be the main Python mailing list, why don't
the moderators put a stop to
On 09/04/2016 01:43, Ben Finney wrote:
Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
Yet another completely irrelevant thread that has nothing to do with
Python. As this is meant to be the main Python mailing list, why don't
the moderators put a stop to such tripe?
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On Fri, Apr 8, 2016, at 23:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> This is the power of the "slowing typists down is a myth" meme: same
> Wikipedia contributor takes an article which *clearly and obviously*
> repeats the conventional narrative that QWERTY was designed to
> decrease the number of key presses p
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016, at 23:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> And how did it enable fast typing? By *slowing down the typist*, and thus
> having fewer jams.
Er, no? The point is that type bars that are closer together collide
more easily *at the same actual typing speed* than ones that are further
apart
On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 10:43 am, Ben Finney wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
>
>> [The QWERTY keyboard layout] was a sane design -- for early mechanical
>> typewrites. It fulfills its goal of slowing down a typist to reduce
>> jamming print-heads at the platen.
>
> This is an often-repeated myth,
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