It is almost certain that you will find the below crushingly uninteresting. In an earlier post I used a PowerShell script to pull the year on year stats for certain search terms, add the results to a spreadsheet, then draw a line graph to show change over time.
Here is the script. I'm a believer in 'good enough' coding. This was written for a short-term project (it assumes, for instance, that the year will always be 2011) for my own use only. It works, but there are areas in which it could be improved. Feel free to use it and ask questions in the comments, but please don't assume it's my finest work.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
One Handed Keyboards and Evolutionary Computing
If you’re reading this you likely have one advantage over me when it comes to typing. You can type the word QWERTY faster than I can.
These letters are found in order on the top row of the majority of the world’s keyboards and typewriters. The arrangement prevents keys jamming together, a design flaw inherent in 19th century typewriters that has long since been remedied. The arrangement was not intended for speed.
So, why am I so slow to type QWERTY? My keyboard is different. I’ve been using a Dvorak keyboard layout for just shy of a decade. Where you have QWERTY I have the letters ‘,.PYF. For your ASDF I have AOEU. The rest of the keyboard is similarly rearranged, the goal being to design an arrangement more conducive to efficient typing.
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