I'm not thick. I know it doesn't sound like much of a boast, but I'm pretty competent at this whole adulting lark. But it appeared that I had forgotten a 4 digit number I'd set up less than a minute ago! The security guard smiled wearily at me, "It happens to everyone!" She said. Which, [...]
A little rant for this Saturday about a stupid usability problem which will never get fixed.
So if all this work was done to determine that the phone layout is simply better than the calculator layout… why the fuck are we still using the calculator layout on anything?
And screw you OP for bringing this up. Now I want to remap my 10-key to phone layout to see if that’s “better”… I already had important stuff to do this weekend that I’m totally going to ignore now because this irrationally bothers me that I didn’t realize this before.
Ironically, the original Dvorak layout also did some really weird stuff to its numbers. Though these days, those of us who use Dvorak almost exclusively use the “Dvorak Simplified Keyboard”, which keeps its top row the same as the US QWERTY layout (apart from the two symbol keys immediately left of backspace).
As someone who types dvorak, and who is just waiting for the /dev/tty dvorak / colemak specific keys to arrive for their new full size keyboard… This really shouldn’t be tempting, damn it!
So if all this work was done to determine that the phone layout is simply better than the calculator layout… why the fuck are we still using the calculator layout on anything?
And screw you OP for bringing this up. Now I want to remap my 10-key to phone layout to see if that’s “better”… I already had important stuff to do this weekend that I’m totally going to ignore now because this irrationally bothers me that I didn’t realize this before.
The Dvorak of numpads
Ironically, the original Dvorak layout also did some really weird stuff to its numbers. Though these days, those of us who use Dvorak almost exclusively use the “Dvorak Simplified Keyboard”, which keeps its top row the same as the US QWERTY layout (apart from the two symbol keys immediately left of backspace).
As someone who types dvorak, and who is just waiting for the /dev/tty dvorak / colemak specific keys to arrive for their new full size keyboard… This really shouldn’t be tempting, damn it!