How far should I go with "the opposite of Fitts' Law"?

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After reading Jeff's blog post and being fairly new to GUI programming, I'm wondering what the limits are on applying the "opposite of Fitt's Law." For example, is it a good idea to separate "Yes" and "No" on a dialog screen, or would that conflict with another programming rule? E.g. alt text and

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