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I'm going to second Kent on the Avant Stellar, I have one and it's quite impressive. I'm surprised it wasn't in the epic thread there, considering it's a pretty popular mechanical keyboard.
However, I type 120 WPM, and I have typed on both a Das and an Avant Stellar, and I currently prefer the Das. There are some things that are better about the Avant Stellar, though--injection-molded keys, for one.
-Max
Commented Oct 23, 2010 on The Keyboard Cult at Coding Horror
The Keyboard Cult
As a guy who spends most of his day typing words on a screen, it's hard for me to take touch computing seriously. I love my iPhone 4, and smartphones are the ultimate utility belt item, but attempting to compose any kind of text on the thing is absolutely crippling. It is a reasonable compromis...
Yeah, I actually wrote a post specifically about what I'd like to see from CSS's positioning code, and the co-chair of the CSS Working Group replied with an emphatic agreement:
http://avatraxiom.livejournal.com/101850.html
-Max
Commented May 1, 2010 on What's Wrong With CSS at Coding Horror
What's Wrong With CSS
We're currently in the midst of a CSS Zen Garden type excerise on our family of Q&A websites, which I affectionately refer to as "the Trilogy": Server Fault Super User Stack Overflow Meta Stack Overflow (In case you were wondering, yes, meta is the Star Wars Holiday Special.) These sites a...
Interesting--I wrote a really similar article about two years ago:
http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/success-comes-from-execution-not-innovation/
-Max
Commented Feb 14, 2010 on Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas at Coding Horror
Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas
How much is a good idea worth? According to Derek Sivers, not much: It's so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. (People who want me to sign an NDA to tell me the simplest idea.) To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth m...
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