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Combining "Buy a portable computer instead" and "The only peripheral you absolutely need is a hard disk or network drive to put backups on" doesn't make sense.
by msquared 15y ago
Combining "Buy a portable computer instead" and "The only peripheral you absolutely need is a hard disk or network drive to put backups on" doesn't make sense. I don't know about you, but my productivity tanks the second I don't have a mouse.
- technomancy 15y agoThat's weird--I'm way more productive when I'm not using a mouse.
- jff 15y agoYou just think you're more productive because you get to slam "jjjjjjjjjjjjlllllllllll" to position your cursor. Use the mouse for what it's good at: pointing at things and selecting text. Use the keyboard for what it's good at: entering text, such as regular expressions to transform the code you just highlighted.
- technomancy 15y ago> you get to slam "jjjjjjjjjjjjlllllllllll" to position your cursor. Incremental search, dude.
- runjake 15y agoIt probably largely depends on your platform. In Alex's case, he uses a Mac laptop, which has a trackpad. Apple has done a bang-up job of making the trackpad useful and dare I say "expressive" in Mac OS X. On the Mac, the latest gens of their trackpads have obsoleted mice for me.