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Polyworld: An Artificial Life System and Computational Ecology(shinyverse.org)
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Have you not encountered classism in Germany? I am a fluent German speaker who lived in Erfurt, Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich and encountered similar amounts of racism and classism that I have seen in the USA, France and England. The attitud
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Sorry about that. Thanks for the correction!
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A favorite road on a running route of mine. I loved the tree lined street. I imagine those trees are gone now.
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Bob, I am pleased to report the sculptures are visible in this Street View scene. [1] I hope they won't vanish like the giant icons in the Apple Infinite Loop campus. https://www.google.com/maps/@33.906084,-118.378
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Thank you.
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That is cool. I wonder if she worked in the Tandem buildings on Tantau? It was in one of these buildings (post-Tandem, post-Compaq, post-HP) that I think Apple set up some iPhone radiation testing back when I was at Apple. The buildings had
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by diskzero 5y ago
Great info Chuck. What systems did she end up working with post-XBS and what were here thoughts about them vs. Mesa?
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Albert, Thanks for the additional info. I'll be sure to check out your book. Whenever I think of Xerox, I only think of PARC. I rode past it for years and years and years as I went up and down Foothill from Apple. I didn't know ab
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Whenever I see a link to an interesting and historical document like this, I look up the authors to see what the ended up doing after. I didn't recognize any of the authors, but did some searching. James Mitchell [1] is still with us a
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Thanks Susie. You must be right! That is what I am going to believe as well.
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Thanks for the insight. I am sorry you had to endure such a long goodbye period. It was agony for me not to be able to talk with her at the end, but I do appreciate she tried to say something, and I am grateful for that.
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Thanks for the insight. I like to think that you are right! Thanks for the hug. It is much appreciated.
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My wife was diagnosed with lymphoma and brain cancer last December and passed this October. I watched her weaken, spring back when a therapy worked, descend into near death when a therapy failed and eventually see her mind and body destroye
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The funding did occur during the dot-com boom, however the quality of the team was quite high. Mike Boich, Andy Herzfeld, Susan Kare and Bud Tribble were all members of the early Macintosh team. Mike had several successful previous startups
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Scott created a lot of friction and animosity amongst various high-level managers and executives. Steve protected Scott. With Steve gone, the other executives had to deal with this issue. I won't name who, as I am sure the story has be
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Snow Leopard was great to work on. When we were told the next release of OSX would focus on stability and performance, morale went way up. Having a massive backlog of bugs felt like an unseen energy vampire, sucking away the will to live. Y
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Shamefully, as an Apple employee working on Finder/Spotlight/Time Machine and more, I never, ever used XCode. Almost no one on our team did. We all used a combination of the terminal, our text editor of choice and command line too
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Tiger was the first release of OSX that I was truly proud of. I came to Apple, not as part of the NeXT acquisition, but from the post-pivot Be, which had decided to focus their attention on "internet appliances". My love at the ti
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This is exactly what Steve Jobs would tell me every week when he would look at the latest Finder build. Of course, we needed multiple pieces of infrastructure to get there; a journaled and indexed filesystem, kernel-level, file system modif
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by diskzero 5y ago
Understood. I have made significant contributions to GTK. My contributions possibly had memory leaks or memory corruption issues that will bring down the higher Rust layer. I am trying to understand the purpose of the Rust layer. It is fine
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Original Nautilus and early GNOME developer here. I am very out of touch with what is current, so excuse some possibly ignorant questions. How is this a Rust-based environment if it is based on GTK? I assume GTK is still essentially the C-b
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I have received conflicting advice from various respected sources on ideal team size. During my time at Amazon, frugality and the inability to acquire and retain talent kept my team small with open reqs the entire time I was there. On the o
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I spent a month in Kazakhstan in 2012. I am an American and speak and read decent Russian. I agree that the experience was amazing and agree with your opinions of Almaty and Nur-Sultan. I found the overall experience to be very similar to v
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I was the primary coder of the actual Nautilus icon view during the time that Eazel maintained the code. It is probably lost to time, but there was a C++ version of Nautilus that was developed by the Eazel team. This version was not accepte
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Come on, you are going to miss out on the Weekend Celebration Routine. Now, what that actually is, I have no idea.
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Good old Shrek. There was a large cardboard cutout of Shrek right outside of the entrance of the lighting department at the PDI [1] building in Redwood Shores. PDI animated the first version of Shrek after an attempted motion captured versi
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I fondly recall downloading a tar file of Oberon over ftp and running it on a Mac IIci at work. I can't recall how many floppies I used. I think it was more than one. That was an interesting time for me, as I was able to quickly invest
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The definition has changed over time, but you have reduced the definition to a single component. It is true that an element of the ethos is to improve the outcomes of your descendants. The American Dream can be reduced simply to mean Americ
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Oh yeah! The "Put Away" command. That was indeed a cool feature.

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