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by linguae 11mo ago
You may have a vision for creating a product or service that you believe requires starting a company, and you believe you have a compelling business model that will sustain the company. Failure may happen, but the drive for getting that pr
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by linguae 11mo ago
Indeed. Here’s an article from Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things and former Apple employee, that talks about Apple’s decline in usability back in 2015: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-apples-prod
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by linguae 11mo ago
I've been keeping up with Apple since 2004 when I was in high school. Even back then, a lot of Mac fans wanted Apple to release an "xMac": a Mac with one or two expansion slots, user-serviceable, and priced less than an entr
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by linguae 11mo ago
I didn’t know you like C++. I’ve been reading your posts for a few years now and your advocacy of the Xerox PARC way of computing. I’ve found that most Smalltalkers and Lispers are not exactly fond of C++. To be fair, many Unix and Plan
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by linguae 11mo ago
I view Racket as an academic language used as a vehicle for education and for research. I think Racket does fine in its niche, but Racket has a lot of compelling competitors, especially for researchers and professional software engineers.
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by linguae 11mo ago
I admit I'm one of those students who never used Racket in a non-academic setting (but mostly because I needed to contribute to already-existing projects written in different languages), and I was taught Racket from one of its main con
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by linguae 11mo ago
I’m an American living in the San Francisco Bay Area who travels to Japan twice per year. McDonald’s in Japan is better than McDonald’s in America. McDonald’s in Japan not only is cleaner and has better customer service, but is cheaper. M
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by linguae 11mo ago
The NeXT variant did run on the following architectures: 1. Motorola 68k (the original NeXT hardware had 68030 and 68040 chips) 2. Intel x86 (NeXTSTEP 3.1 for Intel was released in 1993) 3. HP PA-RISC (I have an OPENSTEP 4.2 CD that can
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by linguae 11mo ago
I think the hard part about the Linux desktop ecosystem and its development pattern is the cobbled-up-parts nature of the system, where different teams and individuals work on different subsystems with no higher leadership directing how all
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by linguae 11mo ago
My dream is to work on an operating system that at least gets us to the 1990s and 2000s when it comes to research ideas. I have a soft spot for the Smalltalk-80 environment and Lisp machines. They had a single address space. In my opinion
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by linguae 11mo ago
Come to think of it, it just dawned on me that most of the proprietary Mac programs I’ve used on Mac OS X/macOS (as opposed to the classic Mac OS) are either from Apple (Preview.app, Dictionary.app, iPhoto/Photos, iTunes/Appl
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by linguae 11mo ago
I'm not affiliated with ravynOS, but I've been periodically following the project for a few years. The main page ( https://ravynos.com/ ) expresses the philosophy of ravynOS: "We love macOS, but we’re not a fan
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by linguae 11mo ago
I've been paying attention to this project periodically over the past few years. It would be nice to have a FOSS clone of macOS, similar to how FreeDOS, ReactOS, and Haiku are FOSS clones of MS-DOS, Windows, and BeOS, respectively. Th
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by linguae 11mo ago
As someone who daily-drove Macs from 2006 through 2021 and who've since switched back to PCs, this does not surprise me. From 2017 through late 2021 I used a refurbished 2013 "trash can" Mac Pro as my daily driver; I have si
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by linguae 11mo ago
I've been working through The Rust Programming Language ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/title-page.html ) in preparation for this year's Advent of Code. I've been meaning to learn Rust for some time, a
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by linguae 11mo ago
I have a work-issued M3 MacBook Pro, and at home my daily drivers are a Ryzen 9 3900 PC (still on Windows 10) and a Framework 13 laptop with a Ryzen 5 7640U running Windows 11. The hardware on my MacBook Pro is fantastic; I get amazing bat
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by linguae 11mo ago
From a UI standpoint, I agree. There’s nothing like the classic Mac interface and its associated Apple Human Interface Guidelines for GUI software. I love Jobs-era Mac OS X, but the classic Mac and its ecosystem of applications were somet
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by linguae 11mo ago
Some of us still rely on Windows applications that either don’t run on Linux, can’t run under Wine, or don’t have alternatives that meet our needs.
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by linguae 11mo ago
It’s sad to see the decline in the quality of desktop computing. I blame this on the rise of mobile apps and Web apps in the 2010s. It’s not that mobile apps and Web apps are inherently bad; that’s not the problem. The problems is that w
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by linguae 11mo ago
I know this was in jest, but had some of Apple’s and IBM’s 1990s plans came to fruition, we could’ve ended up with an operating system capable of running both OS/2 and Taligent (the original planned successor to the classic Mac OS) app
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by linguae 11mo ago
Additionally, having baked-in taxes à la Japan would change how advertising works, since we don't have a uniform sales tax (unlike Japan). For example, I live in San Ramon, CA, which has a sales tax rate of 9.75%. If I drive just two
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by linguae 11mo ago
Yup, desktop Linux and other FOSS systems like ReactOS and Haiku are the last bastions of personal computing that haven’t been made into platforms that nag and upsell us.
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by linguae 11mo ago
We can have stable user-friendly software. We had a nice sweet spot in the early 2000s with Windows XP and Mac OS X: stable operating systems built on workstation-quality kernels (NT and Mach/BSD, respectively), and a userland that re
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by linguae 11mo ago
I love Dijkstra’s writings, but, yes, he had very strong opinions that at times were abrasive. Alan Kay said it best when he said, “arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.” Some famous Dijkstra quotes: “It is practical
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by linguae 11mo ago
You brought up something interesting. I believe academic computer science originated from at least three cultures: pure mathematics (Church, Turing, Kleene, Dijkstra), electrical engineering, and psychology (Licklieder). I say “at least” s
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by linguae 11mo ago
I’m sure there are many people who don’t want their dating lives influenced by whatever rulers are in charge of their governments. Democrats won’t like a MAGA dating service, and vice versa.
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by linguae 11mo ago
Indeed. I am reminded of what Alan Kay has repeatedly referred to as a “pop culture” of computing that has become widespread in technical communities since the 1980s, when the spread of technology grew faster than educational efforts. One
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by linguae 11mo ago
Yup. I am a CS professor at a community college in the Bay Area. I make good money for a tenure-track professor (slightly under $112,000, in fact), but the problem is that there are many thousands of households in the area that make multi
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by linguae 11mo ago
I won’t go that far…yes, the West Coast of the US is dominant, but it’s not “literally the entire tech industry” or even figuratively. We’d have a hard time buying new hardware without Chinese and Taiwanese companies. South Korea is a pow
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by linguae 11mo ago
Be careful what you wish for. We could end up in a situation where we have unremarkable homes for $2 million and no local jobs capable of making the mortgage payments.

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