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.
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).
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).