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Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
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Date: 
Fri, 6 Oct 2000 17:38:03 GMT
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John Radtke <jaradtke@mindspring.com> wrote:
I'll nominate a fifth dumbest thing: contemporary use of QWERTY keyboards that
were originally designed to make typing slower and more difficult.

And the sixth dumbest thing is how vi makes a big deal about "all the most
import keys are right on the home row", and then a) foolishly has your right
hand shifted one key to the left of where it should be and b) makes you hit
ESC a lot, even though that tends to be way the hell up in the corner.

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  Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
 
(...) not to start a holy war, but vi has all sorts of weirdnesses in it... like, oh, modes? :) *grin, duck and run* (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) I'll nominate a fifth dumbest thing: contemporary use of QWERTY keyboards that were originally designed to make typing slower and more difficult. John (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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