I've been eyeing the rpi as well. Here's the thing though I'd rather use it with gamepads or haptic glove input and with VR headsets. This would mean that it truly would be mobile, i.e. you could use it on an airplane!
How can you tell that the reasoning is bad if you can't parse the sentence?
Also had this not been written with two thumbs, maybe the result would've been better. Embarasing as it may seem, it just goes to show the unsuitability of tablets for productive use!
Normally I have spellchecker for times like these but unfortunately she's sick :( Didn't expect to hit HN frontpage before she had time to look at it.
Apparently the article was not written in a way that can be understood by all. I can give you that.
It's good to have feedback and in the future I'll take into account that some people have problems comprehending text.
But to say that you can not parse a sentence and that it's illogical doesn't make sense. That is like saying that you read a book in Greek, didn't understand it and still claim that the content is invalid. Do you follow?
oh I have. Initially I used a bluetooth keyboard. Which is an acceptable solution.
Lack of dev tools in chrome and firefox is an issue though.
Also a better window manager would help a lot. Less animated transitions and more i3/fluxbox like functions.
Now I'm "dogfooding" in a sense so that I can hopefully get some input on how to create a better prototype.
I don't expect to be able to make an equivalent of an desktop IDE or whatever but rather to create experimental solutions to whatever problems that might appear.
First of all an autocomplete that works on the input and output of the terminal would be great. Say if you run ifconfig the output would be automatically added to autocomplete.
Key sizes ia a problem as well where it's easy to miss keys. So I'm toying with the idea of a dynamic keyboard (which has draw backs) with sizes in accordance with Fitt's law.
No. The way that you structured this whole article is strange. It doesn't feel as you read through that you are talking about the title nor does it feel like each subsection is connected in either way. Generally a reader expects: introduction to concept, hypothesis/argument based on introduced concepts, supporting arguments for or against the hypothesis, and finally a conclusion. I feel like you are missing the introduction entirely, so a reader has to assume the title is your argument (as sometimes appears in news articles). Given that argument you end up wandering through 3 sections that do not seem related to that title, and at the end I still have no idea what you wanted to say.
There is no conclusion or resolution to what was introduced so I still can't fathom what you are trying to share. It feels like a situation where only half the thoughts hit the page and since we don't know the context we can't fill in the gaps.
Our issues are in the actual writing of the post, not as much what you are trying to say because we can't even get to that.
First I go through steps of computer evolution: desktops -> laptops -> tablets
When desktops became popular in Sweden computers where rare in say South America.
Now computers are not rare in South America, which is good. The bad thing is that they are common in a consumption only format.
The problem is UI in particular text input. The solution use say gloves as input and VR systems which I predict will be cheaper and broadly available.
Until that happens a huge amount of people are stuck with smart devices, so I'd like to improve the situation. To get there I'm doing my work on a tablet to get a good idea on what works and what doesn't. Why? Because I want teenagers in the rest of the world to be able to have fun with computers as I did.
Your "article" reads like four or five separate blog or facebook posts scrunched together with no rhyme or reason. And it has the setup of a clickbait article, luring you in with a question, going on about a bunch of stuff not related to it at all, and then finally approaching the question at the very end but never _really_explaining it. Complete with a link to an unrelated software project and a separate link to donate to you (and we're donating for ... what? A VR input method you didn't really explain and has nothing to do with the headline?)
As a blog post for a random tech friend people follow, sure, that's fine. But I don't understand why this was posted to hacker news, and I don't understand why people voted it up.
I answer the question: to see how hard it is to work on a tablet.
Why: because desktops aren't widely available in the developing world
The "unrelated" link is a suggestion on how to write
fast without a keyboard. Something that might come in handy for a non-desktop machine, don't you think?
Although I'm very interested in your "Chorded Typing" article [0], I too admit to being confused by the article listed here on HN.
Personally, I've roamed the world with a Galaxy Tab 2 7" (3G version) on rooted Android 4.x. I used a mini USB keyboard, and developed quite a bit of software on it (mainly nodejs at the time, but not exclusively). I upgraded the system in 2013 to a MBA (better battery, bigger screen, prettier OS IMHO, but lost mobile data), & didn't continue with it. Fun times.
Thank you. Well what I'd like to do is to make it possible to do it without a bluetooth keyboard.
So I'm looking into alternative ways of doing this.
The chorded input method is interesting in conjunction with say a all in one android VR-headset and haptic glove input, where you have all ten fingers.
What kind of software did you develop was it on a commercial basis or on open source projects?
Didn't mean to be blunt, but I had no idea how the sections fit together and what you were trying to say. Clearly I am missing the context which others seem to have, since it's on the frontpage of HN.
Finnish education have gotten good scores internationally and ease of testing and administration speaks for digitalization. Still isn't the cognitive context switch caused by looking through menus to high for such a stressfull setting?
