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		brokenmachine on Nov 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout >Another problem is that I'm a programmer and QWERTY is colloquially known as the programmers' Dvorak. Don't know if you mistyped here, but QWERTY is definitely NOT colloquially known as programmers' Dvorak. They're totally different layouts.

pneto on Nov 16, 2021 [–]

It's just a joke. Dvorak was supposed to be ergonomic but it is painful for programmers because our most common shortcuts are designed for qwerty.

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