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An introduction to alternative keyboard layouts

This is a post to satisfy your curiosity about alternative keyboard layouts, why some people use them, and whether they're for you. It is intended to discuss the topic in broad terms, but I will share my personal preferences towards the end. Due to time constraints and my own limited knowledge, I will focus on layouts optimized for the English language (ANSI variants, with an occasional nod to ISO).

First off, it's important to understand how much debate there is about how we got here: I will not even attempt to settle the issue of who invented the 'first' typewriter layout, because the modern device had many predecessors going back centuries. The usual legend of typewriter evolution holds that American Christopher Latham Sholes debuted the typewriter in 1868 with a 2-row layout that was (nearly) alphabetical. A horizontal stagger between the rows made room for the lever arms attached to each key:


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@EmmanuelGuther
EmmanuelGuther / KOTLINExampleFragmentOnClickFragment.kt
Created October 21, 2017 19:14
An example to how implements a button Onclick in Kotlin - Android Fragment
class ExmpleFragment : Fragment(), View.OnClickListener {
override fun onCreateView(inflater: LayoutInflater?, container: ViewGroup?, savedInstanceState: Bundle?): View? {
val view: View = inflater!!.inflate(R.layout.fragment, container, false)
val btn: Button = view.find(R.id.button2)
btn.setOnClickListener(this)
return view
}
@theburningmonk
theburningmonk / singleton.dart
Last active September 2, 2022 01:40
Using Dart's factory constructor feature to implement the singleton pattern
class MyClass {
static final MyClass _singleton = new MyClass._internal();
factory MyClass() {
return _singleton;
}
MyClass._internal() {
... // initialization logic here
}
@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this: