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by juliendorra 1y ago
My guess is that it’s easier to build with (WebKit is old, after all) and maybe Apple’s pace on certain features is perceived as slow? A new WebKit browser on Windows might also seem risky for a startup, they probably want a known and safe
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by juliendorra 1y ago
Alternatively people who say “I’m not political” are benefiting from the status quo and political direction of things (long term, not necessarily short term). They frame inaction as apolitical.
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by juliendorra 2y ago
There's no up swipe in the prototype made in 2005 by Ken Kocienda (which this is a reproduction of). It's tap for center letter, and swipe for the sides. What do you mean by "widen the margins"? In any case, Ken Kocienda
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by juliendorra 2y ago
The blob keyboard was never publicly shown (at least not until Kocienda's book in 2018) and was quickly morphed into something else internally. So Swype probably reinvented the idea independently (as others did too I think) Apple did p
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by juliendorra 2y ago
Sometimes the best ideal solution is not the one that can win in practice! The web was and still is a very bad hypertext system (no bidirectional links, no versioning, no integrated index, no transclusion, etc.) and we are still paying this
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by juliendorra 2y ago
As I remember it, all these mobile browsers for Windows Mobile were not exactly the same code and rendering engine / javascript engine that on desktop. They were ports As the iPhone OS was Mac OS at its core, Safari was exactly the sam
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by juliendorra 2y ago
Yea, and Ken Kocienda would end up using a huge dictionary (bigger than any phone or the Newton which had one in 93 and a bigger one in 96) at the word level too. But only after this prototype, because the design goal here was to validate
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by juliendorra 2y ago
Yes, the book explains how everything started from the capacitive touchscreen. The initial idea (2004-2005) was to build a Mac tablet computer based on touch screens. Bas Ording designed all the interactions we know, rubber band and inertia
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by juliendorra 2y ago
Thanks! Yes, the blob keyboard opened the way to the idea of decoupling what the user see and what the software keyboard takes into account. Feel free to contact me on LinkedIn! I'd be happy to chat
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by juliendorra 2y ago
Yeah, the goal of this particular prototype was to try and find a way to make typing letters actually possible! The iPhone team at this moment was in real trouble, as the naively 1-to-1 keyboard was absolutely unusable! They stopped the who
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by juliendorra 2y ago
Check the repo for more infos, and be sure to read at least the interview with Ken Kocienda, and maybe his book!
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by juliendorra 2y ago
Right, I noticed that too! (especially typing in english, might be different in other languages) That's why it's totally different to learn about an UX and actually experiment it, we can notice these things. But, all in all, I thi
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Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator
129 points by juliendorra 2y ago|54 comments
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by juliendorra 2y ago
The page says in the following week, which is disappointing. It’s likely we will see openAI favor their own product first more and more, an inversion of their more developer oriented start.
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by juliendorra 2y ago
The multiple-button mouse predates the one-button Apple mouse by 2 decades. The one-button mouse paired to a GUI was an innovative solution: Xerox couldn’t find a way to make a GUI work with one button only, as per their design 1983 article
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by juliendorra 2y ago
Researchers use Transkribus
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by juliendorra 2y ago
You should try it with your own voice! (By first creating a custom voice on the web interface. The quick basic clone should be enough). I found that it’s my preferred way to use their reader, as it makes the reading more neutral and transpa
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by juliendorra 2y ago
Is it possible that you are confusing the feeling of the dream with the content of the dream? For example can you remember and write down any of these jokes? Do they make any sense outside of the dream? The dream may give you the feeling th
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by juliendorra 2y ago
We had a minister of digital affairs in France who is named O (Cédric O, early investor in Mistral too)
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by juliendorra 2y ago
This is the default for modern Mac apps since several years. So I guess it’s Microsoft catching up to this new norm?
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by juliendorra 2y ago
From your post, it seems the European internet and mobile market is much more competitive than the US one. And yet much more regulated. It seems that’s two markets where EU regulations have actually created both enough competition (still no
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The UX failures of desktopOS-on-tablet
1 points by juliendorra 2y ago|1 comments
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by juliendorra 2y ago
I don’t know if you have been teaching, but I have (for nearly 19 years now ) to a lot of different people of various ages. I’m also a daily user of LLMs. I’m firmly convince that LLMs will have an impact on teaching because they are alread
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by juliendorra 2y ago
For comparison VisiCalc and other early spreadsheets like Lotus 123 and Multiplan were 80x multipliers for their users: “I would work for twenty hours,” Jackson said. “With a spreadsheet, it takes me 15 minutes.” Not sure any other computin
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by juliendorra 2y ago
All lab GUIs starting from Engelbart’s AUGMENT had 3-button mouses, including the Xerox Alto. The researchers and engineers using the Alto found that the mouse buttons were confusing, even this small group couldn’t remember the combinations
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by juliendorra 2y ago
Thinking is probably not a single unified process, but several simultaneous activities at different levels. Including the unconscious ones. So you might very well both be right, as we may be thinking sometimes simultaneously in language and
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by juliendorra 2y ago
Is it a form of apocalyptic glee? It’s quite common from some Trotskyist movements to rapture believers to conspiracy theorists… In a way it recenter the world around one single explanation/core and give a sense of, if not agency at al
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by juliendorra 2y ago
Tangential: Aza Raskin is the son of Jef Raskin, who created the single-button mouse interactions for the Macintosh, interactions that differed a lot from the ones on the Xerox machine, and that are the ones we all still use today: click an
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by juliendorra 2y ago
And closer to Apple Shazam and Shortcuts!
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by juliendorra 2y ago
'Pivot to software' has been done several times in computing history: Go Corporation, SGI, Sun, Blackberry, Palm, Sega, and oh, NeXT. These are interesting precedents. I don't know of a 'pivot to software' that ac

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