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I'm young, still no biro allowed until high school. Cartridge pens or fountain pens only - a PITA. Considering that I had a crazy teacher who would throw my desk upside down (on me) because "I was untidy!!!" breaking each and every nib of my pens...
First High School year I bough a 50 bic pack and never turned back.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'm pretty good: I did a computer typing course - Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
Memories! That was a 'big seller' when I was trying to make a living as a shareware distributor. All of my kids used that and touch type.
Myself? "Forced" to take typing in Junior High School (8th grade) on a real old-style (even for then) mechanical typewriter. My fingers have since become a bit gnarled, but I can still do 80 wpm bursts. Fortunately, with coding, typing is pretty much done in bursts. (that's 5-6 chars/second). Nothing like the speed of keyboard pros nor their sustainability.
A neat thing is having your fingers move so fast that few if any people could follow their motion to get a password.
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When I took typing in High School in the late '70s, it was manual typewriters with black keys - no letters at all. You learned to type by position because looking down would only help you confirm where your fingers were.
The 1 or 2 people that had typewriters with white lettering never really learned to type because they could look down.
While I enjoy the 'modern' conveniences - Intellisense, on-line help, etc., has it affected our programming ability? We haven't learned because we don't have to, or, we (of a certain age) learned because we didn't have a choice - pity the new generation.
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I can constantly type 100+ words/min. I could type faster than that, but accounting error correction, etc. It's usually just above 100 words a minute.
I think my best was a 131 words per minute as measured by one of those online typing game thingies.
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I hunt and peck. Apparently I peck quite hard as well much to the disdain of my colleagues.
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With old spring-keyed IBM keyboards either you pecked hard or you did not peck at all!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Damn - the flesh is weak.
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I forced myself to learn to touch type on a Commodore PET (thankfully one with a real keyboard, not the chicklet thing).
It was a bit painful -- make a mistake, delete it (oops, that wasn't the delete key) and then try another key, oops, that was the same one, etc. But at this point, the only time I've looked at the keyboard in recent memory was to find the ` character as I never type it but I needed to for some unknown reason.
At one point I was using three different keyboards, two almost simultaneously (I was developing on one machine and testing on another) and I got good enough that I could look at the keyboard for a minute or so, learn where to position my hands, and off I'd go.
Marc
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I learned typing on a typewriter ( the one with a physical paper and at the end of the line you have a ding to notify )
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Keyboard bumps helped me a lot to type faster. You can use it to correctly position your left and right hand on the keyboard without having to look at the keyboard.
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Take the test[^]
Sorry if Leslie already made the test, I have not been attending the Lounge a lot theses days.
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Completely worthless - it doesn't take nationality into condiseration! 
Anybody knows that 1 Dane is worth 20 people of other nationalities! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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But can it figure out the shortest route to buy a Danish?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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No. That's an additional add-on functionality that's only available for police vehicles!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Dogs[^] usually look up to their owners. 
Cats would brake for nobody.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: Cats would brake for nobody.
They can't park[^] either! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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So you get bonus points for knocking down Danes? Kewl!
veni bibi saltavi
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I found it interesting when I saw the results, as I did not take into consideration the age/gender etc of the people involved.
I only answered on the principle that where possible it should prioritise the safety of pedestrians over passengers, and there it was the choice of hitting pedestrians directly ahead or pedestrians to the side by swerving, to always hit those directly ahead [on the understanding they should have been looking before crossing, and those on the other side had already crossed far enough to be out of the path].
Of course the only winners may be lawyers, so where there's a choice to hit a lawyer, that's always my preferred option, to try to even things out a bit.
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Wastedtalent wrote: prioritise the safety of pedestrians over passengers
Nobody sane would buy such car.
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...and that's the problem. Same kind of reactions if you have to choose between hitting a biker with a helmet on, or one without, given that the one with would survive the hit whereas the other not:
- Hit the one with helmet, then less bikers would wear helmets in order to not be the one with the highest probability of being hit.
- Hit the one without helmet, then you choose to intentionally kill someone instead of "only" injuring someone else.
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Rage wrote: and that's the problem.
I wasn't aware sanity is a problem. I wouldn't buy anything that would kill me to save some drunk idiot wandering a street.
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What if you were the pedestrian and some drunk idiot was driving?
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What? We're talking about self-driving cars. How are drunk drivers relevant to this discussion? Unless you think AI can get drunk.
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I was thinking more along the lines of Tesla cars I guess, where the software deals with collision detection and some autonomy but ultimately there is still a human with some responsibility [I find it hard to picture a car where the owner/driver/whoever is controlling it is absolved of all responsibility].
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Wastedtalent wrote: I find it hard to picture a car where the owner/driver/whoever is controlling it is absolved of all responsibility
Obviously it's hypothetical situation, otherwise we wouldn't have this conversation.
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