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by linguae 5y ago
I feel the same way. It's like we're back to the MS-DOS era where every application had its own interface and you had to learn each application's way of performing tasks. macOS and to a lesser extent Windows prided themselv
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by linguae 5y ago
Agreed. The major sin of modern UI/UX is the desire to create a one-size-fits-all experience that works for both touch devices and desktops, when in reality the work styles of touch devices and desktops are very different. Unfortunat
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by linguae 5y ago
Do non-techies have a choice, though? Given the lack of theming in many modern apps, its not like users have a choice between flat design and the designs of the 90s and 2000s. What about sticking to old versions? I can only use old versi
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by linguae 5y ago
QBASIC was my first programming language, which I learned on my parents PC running Windows 95. It wasn’t installed with Windows 95 by default; I had to copy it from the Windows 95 CD.
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by linguae 5y ago
I believe the reason why so much UI development takes place on the Web is because there are a lot more people making websites and web applications than there are making desktop applications. For example, think of all of the businesses and
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by linguae 5y ago
I think what is happening is that in a normal economy, new cars are readily available, and the market for used cars is replenished not only with individual owners selling the cars they originally bought new, but also with off-lease and flee
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by linguae 5y ago
I feel the same way about the 2013 Mac Pro, which I purchased refurbished in early 2017 and used as my daily driver until January when I switched to a Ryzen 3900X build. The 2013 Mac Pro has a wonderful design, but it's a shame Apple
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by linguae 5y ago
While I was in elementary school in the 1990s, my mom returned to college. Sometimes I would attempt to read some of her textbooks from courses she already finished. One book that I will always remember and helped spark a lifelong interes
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by linguae 5y ago
I discovered Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers in the summer of 2003 at my local library. At the time I was a high school student taking a summer Algebra 2 class in order to be able to take calculus my senior year for college admiss
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by linguae 5y ago
Yes, according to this purchase page ( https://store.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle?pk_vid=6677544eb4f4d... ), if you click "Traditional," the standard version costs $149.99 and the professional version costs $249.99.
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by linguae 5y ago
I just upgraded to LibreOffice 7.3 after seeing this post, and the upgrade fixed a problem that I had with LibreOffice on Windows 10 that I haven't encountered on other platforms (macOS and Linux), where typing text in LibreOffice Writ
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Humboldt State University Is Now Cal Poly Humboldt(humboldt.edu)
4 points by linguae 5y ago|3 comments
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by linguae 5y ago
In one sense, workstation operating systems eventually did win out over traditional PC operating systems. This happened in 2001, when the release of Windows XP was the first version of Windows for consumers that was based on the NT kernel
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by linguae 5y ago
It's possible to make cross-platform apps look native, but it's much harder work to make cross-platform apps act native. For example, there are themes that make an XFCE desktop look like Mac OS 9 or Windows 2000, but it doesn
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by linguae 5y ago
macOS has not abandoned its Unix layer, and in fact is still a certified Unix ( https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ ). However, there is a growing gap between certified Unix and the innovations that *nix-
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by linguae 5y ago
Exactly. As a long-time Mac user, I miss the days when Apple and Microsoft were focused on advancing desktop computing, and when they heavily invested in the macOS and Windows platforms. It seems that ever since mobile computing gained a f
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by linguae 5y ago
This is technically FreeBSD-based and thus isn't Linux, but if you're looking for a clone of macOS, you may be interested in helloSystem: https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/
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by linguae 5y ago
Dictionary.app is one of my favorite macOS programs; I use it regularly, and Dictionary.app is something that I miss whenever I'm not on my Mac. I'm wondering if there are similar offline dictionaries available for Windows and Lin
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by linguae 5y ago
Perhaps Rob Pike had OpenDoc in mind, which was cancelled by Apple in 1997: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJdjk2rq4E -- a roughly three-minute promotional
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by linguae 5y ago
Maybe people have a preference for software that conforms to a set of often well-thought-of platform UI standards and interoperates seamlessly with their other applications instead of Web applications that don't conform with the platfo
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by linguae 5y ago
The problem with modern UI design isn't necessarily about new designs being uglier than old designs. Windows 11, macOS Monterey, GNOME 3, and KDE 5 all look nice in my opinion, and I cringe when I see old screenshots of Motif and CDE.
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by linguae 5y ago
As a big fan of the Platinum theme used in Mac OS 8 and 9, I absolutely love this!!! This is a fantastic demo of what modern applications would look like had they been designed under the Apple Human Interface Guidelines of the Mac OS 9 era
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by linguae 5y ago
An interesting alternative approach to Unix pipes are systems where everything is an object and where objects can be composed, similar to the idea of function composition in mathematics (e.g., f(g(x)). This can not only be used for command
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by linguae 5y ago
The key differences between helloSystem and Étoilé are their philosophies and underpinnings. My understanding of helloSystem is that it's primary concerns are ease-of-use and UI consistency. It's aiming for the ease-of-use of th
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by linguae 5y ago
Thanks for commenting. I've been reading your posts for quite some time and I enjoy your commentary about how Windows, from a developer's point of view, is the closest living thing we have to the types of Smalltalk and Lisp envir
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by linguae 5y ago
Since roughly 2004 (that's when I first learned about Mac OS X, NeXT, and GNUstep as a high school student), I've been periodically keeping track of the state of GNUstep since I believe there's value in having a FOSS alternat
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by linguae 5y ago
Easier said than done. About a week ago I was researching what it would take to import a Mexican or Brazilian Volkswagen Type-2 (Bus/Transporter) to California. Americans are generally restricted from importing cars that are younger
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by linguae 5y ago
A lot of this work, such as work done on Smalltalk, is old enough to where any patents on it would be expired. There's a treasure trove of technologies invented in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's that haven't been f
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by linguae 5y ago
I don’t have much experience with web development, but lately I’ve been wondering, though, if those using browsers as application runtime environments should go all the way and eschew the DOM in favor of presenting a GUI in a WebGL canvas?
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by linguae 5y ago
Yeah, there comes a point where someone must accept defeat regarding the Bay Area's unaffordability. Mega-commuting for more affordable housing sounds appealing on paper but quickly gets draining and is unsustainable, from both a pers

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