moogleii

> Am I particularly odd for only using my thumb for space?

If you're using Windows, no, that's inherently the clumsiness I was describing. If you're using Mac, I'd say, yeah, kinda. The thumb can easily and ergonomically handle the space, cmd, and option keys.

IMO, all your examples fall under the awkwardnesses that I had mentioned. Under a normal QWERTY layout, ~, 1, Tab, Q, Caplocks, Shift, and Ctrl are all controlled by the pinky. Under Windows, executing a simple CTRL combo means the pinky is no longer responsible for ~, 1, Tab, Q, Caplocks, Shift. That all moves to the ring finger, as you said, which means you've moved away from the normal home row typing position. Quite clumsy IMO.

Vs Mac, the thumb uses CMD, and the pinky remains in home row typing position and can handle all the keys it was originally responsible for. Both hands can stay on the home row at all times. Many simple keyboard combos can now be done with one hand without "exception logic" that runs contrary to standard typing. ctrl+shift in your example becomes cmd+shift, all easily doable on one hand. This also unlocks lots of mouse + keyboard combos since many left-side combos can now be done easily with one hand.

For the skilled typist who is very familiar with touch typing, more complex combos using both hands are even simpler now, because both hands can stay on the home row.

> If I use left-thumb for left-command instead then I can only figure a way that involves moving that hand completely away from the home row

I'm a little puzzled by this, why would your hand have to move away from the home row? Just so we're on the same page, on a Mac-standard keyboard, the cmd key is where the alt key is on a Windows-style keyboard, so directly adjacent to the spacebar.

It took me about 1 month of pain to convert. But now I find cmd far more logical than ctrl. Ctrl asks you to give up a pinky, a home key finger, to execute common chords - far more critical than a thumb, which is already designated for space and chord/modifier keys anyway, on both Windows or Mac. As a result, Windows requires two hands or awkward movement to hit something like ctrl-a, ctrl-z, ctrl-q, etc. The equivalent on Mac can all be one-handed.

And yet women seem to be defeating men at ultramarathons. I think more research is needed.

It isn't the best written piece, but your snippet feels taken grossly out of context. The rest of it:

"A common response is to invent new work, ask for status reports, and add bureaucracy. A better response is to go back to working on technical problems. This keeps the manager’s skills fresh and gets them more respect from their reports. The manager should turn into a high-powered spare worker, rather than a papersshuffler."

While being an IC and a manager is quite challenging, I think it's worth discussing the various permutations of it (only one of which is what the author has written about). It can lead to all sorts of systems (round robin leadership within a team being probably one of the most experimental). But for a more conservative, traditional system, there are many examples, e.g. Apple leadership coming out of former ICs.

That would be an aside, or a comment, not the point of the article.

Recently learned that one of Ben Franklin's sons was a loyalist. He fled to England after the war.

I didn't get the impression this was totally replacing static routes. Seemed to be augmenting it. But also, while your concerns are valid, I don't think they are large enough to not try these things.

Fairly misleading wording with such lines like "Most of the funding for all of the major browsers is going away"... it makes it sound like it goes directly towards the individual browser budgets. That might be true of Mozilla since they don't make that many products tbh, but with Apple and Microsoft, there's no evidence Google's payments don't just go straight into a general fund.

Dig deeper. Use a shovel instead of a spade.

There is an art to communicating that I think people learn around their college years...

On iOS, you can break through dnd with repeated calls (unless you turn that off, too).

That's still awful. We've all become complicit of sites spamming popups after first load. It's so annoying.