Code Answer

So the code that was recently posted was indeed a simple replacement code. But the means by which I chose the simple replacement was not random. I believe Kurt was the only one to figure out the method I used to generate the code.

All I did was switch my keyboard setting to Dvorák style instead of Qwerty style. Dvorák was a dude who developed an efficient keyboard layout that positions highly used keys along the home row. People who know how to type Dvorák can type faster and more efficiently than those of us on Qwerty keyboards. My keyboard will switch between the two formats by hitting both CTRL and SHIFT at the same time. I switched into Dvorák and then typed a message as if it were a qwerty keyboard.

4 thoughts on “Code Answer

  • 2/24/2007 at 4:01 pm
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    People who know how to type Dvorak can type faster and more efficiently than us Qwerty typers, but are forced to live in shame with their tragic, pathetic nerdiness.

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  • 2/26/2007 at 10:35 am
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    The fact that the qwerty keyboard remains standard is a tragedy of efficiency. The QWERTY layout was designed to slow down the typist, to prevent early typewriters from jamming.

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  • 2/26/2007 at 7:51 pm
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    What about those steno machines? Has any Mike D reader tried a steno machine before?

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