[Gllug] RSI: Was VACANCY: Site Reliability Engineering

[Tim Porter]

An interesting article and a reminder to always follow good scientific
method. Most of it seems concerned with typing speeds, I no longer need
to type out great chunks of prose since I finished uni and I'm happy
with my current speed. Admittedly I only skimmed over the article as
it's quite long but it only seems to have about one paragraph concerning
ergonomics, I'm not going to dispute the speed one way or the other
apart from saying that any differences probably wont amount to much.

It had crossed my mind that being forced to retrain at typing on a new
layout might in itself be what makes the layout seem better if this time
round you learn to type properly and change your style in the process.
ie, if your a bad typer then any random rearrangement might help you
break old habits.

Nonetheless, I'm going to stick with Dvorak for now and try to form my
own opinion. I'll report back when I've come to some final conclusions.

Tim

On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 10:13 +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:58:34AM +0000, Nix wrote:
> > This is contentious. Certainly Dvorak's own studies show that: does
> > anyone else's? Everything I've seen shows that it has horrendously
> > uneven hand loading when typing representative English text (something
> > like 80% on one hand; the right, IIRC, but it's been years since I've
> > looked at this), which *really* can't help RSI if true.
> 
> The whole Dvorak thing was and is a con.  This article dismantles the
> myths pretty well:
> 
>   http://www.reason.com/news/show/29944.html
> 
> Rich.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Jones
> Red Hat

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