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Everything Is Buggy
- sradman 6y agoEverything Is Buggy is the 4th instalment of Steven Sinofsky's [1] serialized book Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution [2]: > Hardcore Software is a first-person account of what I saw at the PC revolution from the perspective of joining Microsoft as a newly hired software design engineer fresh from graduate school working on developer tools, through my time as a program manager and ultimately leading Office, and then moving to Windows, and everything in between (like working as technical assistant to Bill Gates.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky [2] https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/ https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/
- nexthash 6y agoCrazy for a Gen-Z like me to think about a time when the latest computer developments and chatter was transmitted in actual paper magazines, development was done on bare-metal or very close to it, and the finished product was boxed and plucked off shelves the way new iPhones are today [1]. Speaks to a more exciting era where everything was a novelty and evolving (from chips to systems to software), compared to today's relatively stale web and computing platforms (Windows, Mac, Android, Google, Facebook) that practically everybody takes for granted. [1] https://i.imgur.com/sRGxoKy.jpg https://i.imgur.com/sRGxoKy.jpg
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoI don't miss that aspect of it, mainly because everything had a price. If I wanted to learn a new language I had to buy a compiler and the books. Everything is much more accessible now.