Just looking at that page gave me an irresistible flashback to the legendary Elan Enterprise home computer:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/24/elan_flan_enterprise...
New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard
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#42Talk about your SaaS. $24,000 a year for one of these babies. I think it's how he made most of his fortune. Edit: corrected for year https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
That and allegedly insider information gleaned from them? I never heard much more about those allegations.
Everyone is misunderstanding you. You're accusing Bloomberg of using data mined from the usage of the Bloomberg keyboard in order to make more informed trades.
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#43The majority of complaints here: - Ergonomics sucks! - I can't re-map caps lock to be escape, what trash! - This is so old! - Too expensive! - Dell makes cheaper monitors! - Fingerprint authentication can be hacked. But what everybody is not considering is: 1. You have to have a Bloomberg keyboard to work in finance. It's not even a question. It's a COGS for anybody who wants to work in finance or trading. 2. Bloombe…
You don't have to actually run that keyboard to use the terminal.
Edit: It's just a regular USB keyboard for windows apps. Remap away!
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
That and allegedly insider information gleaned from them? I never heard much more about those allegations.
Any insider information which came with a Bloomberg terminal would be practically worthless. Every trader would have it. You're probably confusing the sharing of insider information via the IM feature, which definitely does happen. But blaming Bloomberg for that makes about as much sense as blaming Apple for terrorists using iPhones.
The accusation is that Bloomberg uses data from the people using the terminals to inform their own trades. It popped up a little while back but I can't find the original articles.
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#45I've often found it very peculiar that while many industries have specialized input hardware, it is still the norm for developers to type awkward key combinations* for common programming symbols such as (,),{,},[,],=, etc. which are be used in mass quantities all day, every day. I understand how we got where we are, but it's nevertheless surprising that something like a modernized space-cadet keyboard isn't standard…
There is already specialized input hardware for development. It's already either attached to, bolted onto, or (poorly) emulated on every single computer you use.
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#46While the keyboard seems like you bog standard one except for an extra row above the function keys, i find the terminals themselves interesting.
This in that the UI reminds me of one of the tile based ones found on *nix.
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#47These keyboards are ergonomically awful: an undifferentiated mass of completely flat buttons, with crappy keyswitches. Makes them slow and error prone. You can tell no one involved in the design process spent any time thinking about human hand anatomy. On the upside, production costs should be pretty cheap. People making devices for “professionals” should take inspiration from keyboards produced in the 1970s–80s, whi…
I believe the reason for those fantastic keyboards of the 70s and 80s is their lineage from technological marvels like the IBM Selectric typewriter. Back in those days people had jobs like"typist", and for a brief period innovation meant helping people type faster and more accurately.
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#48I wonder if the biometric fingerprint thingy can be defeated with a gummy bear.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_f...
http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-and-threats/apple...?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This keyboard has been out for ages, unless I am missing something here? Not everyone works in finance and/or is familiar with Bloomberg terminals (like me). I think this is pretty interesting since Bloomberg, unlike most application developers, has taken their UX to the point where they're building application-specific hardware (though I understand a lot of that is basically legacy inertia). Also, programmers seem…
"Also, programmers seem to be far more interested in keyboards as a subject that most people." They worry about keyboards because it's one of the professions where RSI is common. http://www.looknohands.me http://markmcb.com/2014/10/13/severe-hand-rsi-pain-and-recov... http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/wrist.php - Stanford professor and creator of TCL Here are plenty of other stories: https://github.com/melling/…
Oh, I'm not criticizing that interest. It has a legitimate and practical basis given the amount of time programmers spend using keyboards and how integral they are to the performance of their job.
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#50I've often found it very peculiar that while many industries have specialized input hardware, it is still the norm for developers to type awkward key combinations* for common programming symbols such as (,),{,},[,],=, etc. which are be used in mass quantities all day, every day. I understand how we got where we are, but it's nevertheless surprising that something like a modernized space-cadet keyboard isn't standard…
There are layouts for this, like programmer's dvorak: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-http://www.kauf... A programmer's qwerty would be pretty handy, too. Edit: and there's plenty of programmable keyboards, like ergodox ( https://ergodox-ez.com/ , though I'm not sure if that's the canonical url).
Your programmer's dvorak link didn't work for me. I believe this is the correct URL: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/