For some reason I've always had the impression that O was rare. I cross checked with wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type#ABO_and_Rh_distribut... and it seems a bit less than A (O+ and O- compared to A+, A-, AB+ and AB-), but no means rare. Did anybody else have this prejudice?
The 'native' part also seems a little dubious. What is that supposed to mean in terms of their samples?
It mentions that "the WSJ used our empirical data on bank fees to identify the worst banking offenders" but no link to an article and I'm coming up short with Google. Has anybody seen this?
The second benchmark isn't particularly fair. We're supposed to be testing == speed, not object creation. It should be something like:
test_str1, test_str2 = "test", "test"
str = Benchmark.measure do
10_000_000.times do
test_str1 == test_str2
end
end.total
testsym1, testsym2 = :test, :test
sym = Benchmark.measure do
10_000_000.times do
testsym1 == testsym2
end
end.total
Of course you might not need to create two strings, and definitely not two symbols. Somebody want to run this? (I'm on a communal computer with no Ruby.)
Some people were just speculating what the motive(s) might be. I read nearly all of the other posts before getting to yours and didn't notice any even imply that it was justified.
Any theory that is not falsifiable and has no supporting evidence is false with very high probability. God shares this position with silent black helicopters and invisible people doing experiments on us.
At least, that's one of my answers on the rare occasion I'm prodded. The other has to do with the lack of usefulness. ;)
I like to experiment with mixing drinks, and have always been a bit frustrated with the lack of sour ingredients. You basically have lemon/lime and bitters which are hard to find in variety and often citrus flavored anyways. So this should be pretty good to add variety, akin to making my own syrups and liqueurs. Awesome!
It's based on some research not available when Dvorak was designed, but with similar goals plus ease of switching from and compatibility with Qwerty (ex: most punctuation and bottom row are unchanged). It took under two weeks to get to about 25wpm, which was about where it stopped feeling painfully slow for me.
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