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Is education AI's real killer app?(danieloran.github.io)
1 points by dporan 2y ago|0 comments
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What we lose when AI writes for us(danieloran.github.io)
2 points by dporan 2y ago|0 comments
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by dporan 4y ago
Glad to help!
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by dporan 4y ago
Great! I'll look for that collection.
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by dporan 4y ago
Thanks! The Internet Archive Software Collection sounds like a great resource. I'm going to check it out.
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by dporan 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33794018
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by dporan 4y ago
An HN post yesterday [1] reminded me of this Q&A that I did last year. (Thanks to HN user DoingIsLearning for suggesting a separate submission.) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33760814
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Q&A about the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar(blogs.harvard.edu)
8 points by dporan 4y ago|5 comments
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by dporan 4y ago
I created the Start Menu and Taskbar, and I did intend for them to be at the top of the screen. http://blogs.harvard.edu/danieloran/2022/11/28/qa-about-the-...
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5 tactics for coming up with great ideas(blogs.harvard.edu)
1 points by dporan 9y ago|0 comments
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Ray Kurzweil: Making the World A Billion Times Better (2008)(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by dporan 15y ago|0 comments
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by dporan 15y ago
Real, shipping stylus-based computers -- not just mockups or concepts like Alan Kay's 1968 Dynabook -- go back to at least the late 1980s, with the GRiDPAD: http://www.pcworld.com/article/188223/the_long_fail_a_brief_... Maybe the lack of
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by dporan 15y ago
Steve Jobs played a minor role in Apple’s early success with the Apple II I disagree. Here's what Isaacson writes (p. 73): If it had not been for Jobs, [Wozniak] might still be handing out schematics of his boards for free at the b
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Jawbone Releases UP, A Wristband For Tracking Your Wellness(fastcodesign.com)
1 points by dporan 15y ago|0 comments
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How Tumblr Created A Design Culture With No Design Team(fastcodesign.com)
3 points by dporan 15y ago|0 comments
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Now iOS apps use MAC address to pierce privacy veil(insidemobileapps.com)
2 points by dporan 15y ago|0 comments
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Confessions Of An iPhone User Who Recently Switched To Android(businessinsider.com)
5 points by dporan 15y ago|0 comments
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Practical Tips on Writing from 23 Brilliant Authors(blogs.plos.org)
1 points by dporan 15y ago|0 comments
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Hackers Find Quirky Uses for Siri(businessweek.com)
1 points by dporan 15y ago|0 comments
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NYT's Maureen Dowd on Steve Jobs: The Limits of Magical Thinking(nytimes.com)
2 points by dporan 15y ago|0 comments
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Multi-touch UI -- 25 years before iPhone(billbuxton.com)
6 points by dporan 15y ago|0 comments
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IdeaPad U300s matches MacBook Air -- for $100 less(reviews.cnet.com)
8 points by dporan 15y ago|17 comments
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by dporan 15y ago
Battelle asked about the highly critical memo from a Google engineer that was mistakenly made public. . . . Brin was less diplomatic about the memo. "I stopped reading it after the first 1,000 pages or so," he said. "If you want to get a p
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Brin on Yegge's post: "I stopped reading it after the first 1,000 pages"(news.cnet.com)
161 points by dporan 15y ago|146 comments
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Steve Jobs was working on his next product the day before his death(venturebeat.com)
2 points by dporan 15y ago|0 comments
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by dporan 15y ago
What an engagingly written interview with a thoughtful designer. Two points stand out: 1. Unlike Apple, which apparently eschews formal user research, Google relied on "ethnographic research" to shape Android 4.0. 2. In between Apple's hype
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by dporan 15y ago
From Tom Hughes, who was design director for the Macintosh project, here's more about the meeting between Land and Jobs: [A]ll serendipity for Sculley who was just along for the ride. He just happened to luck out. And, there was no pilgrim
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by dporan 15y ago
Hats off to Microsoft's Greg Lowney, who, in the early '90s -- working pretty much by himself -- pioneered this corporate focus on accessibility. A great example of intrapreneurship within a big company. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/
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What Makes Steve Jobs Great(nytimes.com)
9 points by dporan 15y ago|2 comments
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by dporan 15y ago
This announcement only makes more poignant what he said in that speech: "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external

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