[Gllug] RSI: Was VACANCY: Site Reliability Engineering

[Sarah Lemarié]

I recommend the kinesis keyboards, although I'm not sure there's a UK source
for them. I switched to dvorak on the kinesis years ago, and still use it. I
adopted both at the same time so I've come to associate the two.
As Rich says, there's not that much to be gleaned from switching to dvorak
alone. On my other keyboards (laptops etc) I still use qwerty.. but I'm used
to dvorak on the kinesis now, so that's what I use. It's a great deterrent
to stop people using your PC :)

FWIW I don't recommend relabelling the keys if you do switch layouts. Put a
printout of the dvorak layout across the top of your hands so you can't see
them, and refer to that. That should get you touch typing a bit faster.

Sarah.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> 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.
>
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