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Just crazy how most things considered innovative are built upon years of other people's work. Technology is beautiful.
by thethingo 3y ago
Just crazy how most things considered innovative are built upon years of other people's work. Technology is beautiful.
- msephton 3y agoI know what you mean. A lot of this stuff stays in research labs. If it's lucky it might break out. I'm thinking of WIMP/GUI (Xerox PARC), Interface Builder (Inria). IntelligentPad seems to have not managed to have broken out quite so successfully, or at least not had the staying power. I also find it somewhat frightening how quickly good ideas are jettisoned in the name of "progress" when the new thing is provably worse than the thing it replaces. Apple have done this so many times recently with things in macOS and perhaps even with Swift.