wdurden

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by wdurden 4y ago
Spiritual successors are so hard to find. I could use one for RadioUserland and another for CityDesk
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by wdurden 4y ago
But there are always counterexamples too ... Stephen Wolframs and Nassim Talebs
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by wdurden 4y ago
ClarisWorks was created like this too. https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php
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by wdurden 5y ago
Ima hafta call baloney on this one ... If WalterBright was real he would'a wrote a language ... even better than C! Maybe throw in some memory management. Just sayin' Plus, "Zortech" ... wth kind of name is that? Some
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by wdurden 5y ago
deForest .. a man out of time. Then there was Bones. And Forrest Mims guides at RadioShack! SoundJam definitely had the better name though.
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by wdurden 5y ago
There's alway's John Walker's approach, the founder of Autocad The Hacker's diet archived at fourmilab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker%27s_Diet https://www.fourmilab.ch/hac
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by wdurden 5y ago
Oh, but yes, that PP slide was bad. Symantic's More on a Mac Plus would have allowed a better job 15 years earlier.
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by wdurden 5y ago
Don't dare try to question the narrative with physics and science. A Feynman and an O ring in ice water or a Tufte on visualizations will always be hired in at certain levels. For heaven's sake never go down the rabbit hole abou
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by wdurden 5y ago
If you liked this one, you might also like .. https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/
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by wdurden 5y ago
Livecode works in that fashion but it might be too costly to explore. The learning curves are always steep in just finding out if an environment can do what you need. XOJO is another option, again for whatever reason, these types of tools
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by wdurden 5y ago
Ahhh, reminiscent of the G4 Desktop Supercomputer .. https://www.deseret.com/1999/9/1/19463524/apple-unveils-g4-d... I kinda believe em this time, but time will tell.
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by wdurden 5y ago
It's always a combination of capabilities and chance and adaptation. Without Mike Markkula there would have been no first Apple. The early docs are fascinating as well https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources&#x2