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0 pointstasogare6y ago0 comments

> folks should try it for a couple months. Leave the Macbook or Win10 laptop at home, and force yourself to rewire your brain into the iPad affordances and apps.

Hell no. The iPad is a nice PDF reading machine with its retina display and the pencil is a joy to use but the device is barely usable for any text entry and don't support any real programming workflow.

However some shortcomings can also be positive, in particular I find the limited multi-tasking really helpful to concentrate on the reading of a paper, which is way way harder on a desktop computer with three screens, dozens of tabs opened and multiple running applications.

0 pointstasogare6y ago0 comments

> folks should try it for a couple months. Leave the Macbook or Win10 laptop at home, and force yourself to rewire your brain into the iPad affordances and apps.

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Terretta6y ago· 3 in thread

You seem a little overconfident that it’s unusable for text entry or programming workflow.

I type holes through the rubber keyboard skin in about 6 - 9 months I do so much text entry. Silk screened key caps are mostly gone by month 3.

HeWhoLurksLate6y ago

Have you considered a mechanical keyboard? Those generally last a lot longer- like the switches are rated for something like 50 million presses, and if you get some good keycaps, you should be set for life.

r/mechanicalkeyboards is a good place to go for help, esp. if you check the wiki.

derefr6y ago

Is there a mechanical keyboard... keyboard cover?

(I already know the answer is no, but it'd certainly be neat.)

mattkrause6y ago

That....doesn't seem like a feature!

hsitz6y ago

iPad is not just great machine to read on, it's a great machine to write on, too. There are loads of excellent editors to write in, e.g., iVim, iA Writer, Scrivener, Ulysses. I use an iPad Pro in portrait mode (i.e., vertical orientation) with a Microsoft Wedge bluetooth keyboard. It's a great writing environment.

HeWhoLurksLate6y ago

Are you using a physical keyboard, or an on-screen one? The Windows touch keyboard isn't great either.

Not a very fair comparison.

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