How to Identify a Programmer's Personality by Just Watching Their Keyboard Moves

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Shame these are all Eclipse based, but in my case it'd be Cmd+S, clearly putting me in some sort of "paranoid" group ;-)

You're not paranoid if they're really out to gat you.

(They in this case being your hardware, the network, and your co-workers fooling with either.)

Ha, this is true. And that's why git commit -am "whatever" and git push are quite close behind Cmd+S ;-)

There's more than a grain of truth in this.

In an interview situation I will judge programmers largely by observing how they play their instrument.

Watching how someone gets from $Problem to $Solution, using his own tools and methods, usually speaks louder than a prolonged Q&A session to me.

I was personally hoping this would be a vim vs emacs joke when I saw the first set of hand images.

I was hoping this would be an actual analysis of the way people type. :-(

Yes I am interested in the work around using the cadence and rhythm of typing a password as an additional ID. Apparently it is quite distinctive, given a long enough sample.

Likewise, though I'm wondering whether it can only ever be limited to a very secondary sort of ID. I type differently depending on angle, how I'm sitting, device (consider iPad vs keyboard), etc.

Shift-Delete: and nothing of any value was lost

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