Interesting... there is definitely a division of the sexes here, very few male programmers / engineers seem to learn to touch type in my experience - so much so we have had some fun and games at work trying to get people with UK keyboards to enter text in spanish - surely remembering where the accented keys are shouldn't be so hard, but oh no, I have files of menu items, dialog text etc. without accents and print outs with the accents hand written on them- so on Monday or Tuesday I shall be making full use of my 18 years experience as a developer to go through and add the accents into the text.
I used this to great advantage at one job, where I had a French keyboard but the PC was set up as English - therefore as the only person who could touch type (apart from Maria)when I hit the top left key which was marked as A a Q would come out etc. Everyone else fled this PC with superstitious terror, and therefore LEFT IT ALONE, which was a Good Thing.
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Date: March 27th, 2004 06:19 am (UTC)From:I used this to great advantage at one job, where I had a French keyboard but the PC was set up as English - therefore as the only person who could touch type (apart from Maria)when I hit the top left key which was marked as A a Q would come out etc. Everyone else fled this PC with superstitious terror, and therefore LEFT IT ALONE, which was a Good Thing.