msephton

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   by msephton 2y ago

   I agree coding is about thinking. I've worked for Apple, and written a GOTY game, but I don't know how I'd react if asked to write code in such an esoteric system. I could talk through the concepts, and you could write the co
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   by msephton 2y ago

   Struggling to stick with it long enough to finish is a general programming problem, not specific to HyperCard. :)
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   by msephton 2y ago

   The results were fantastic, actually. The Flash era was a great time, and lots of important and influential software came out of it. The problem Steve Jobs had was that Flash was too resource/power hungry to run on the first iPhone, so
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   by msephton 2y ago

   In a nutshell: HyperCard democratised software development, making it available and accessible to the masses, for free. In fact, many users were not even aware they were developing software. That's how easy and accessible it was. Early
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   by msephton 2y ago

   Right, but... the resource fork could contain code, as well as window definitions, graphics, icons, dialog boxes, menus, language translations, strings, and more. Of course, generally you'd write source code as text and hook up your in
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   by msephton 2y ago

   It's not. There's isn't a single most important thing. HyperCard was an almost perfect blend of many things. That's why it's easy to spot when they're missing, like some omissions or differences in Decker.
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   by msephton 2y ago

   They've done that for years, as well as some very dark patterns, and perplexing dishonest marketing. I tend to avoid them.
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   by msephton 2y ago

   SwiftUI is a long way behind drag and drop user interface layout. But today there are different problems to solve, like dynamic screen sizes, which it make relatively easy.
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   by msephton 2y ago

   You'd expect people to code in a language they likely have never seen before in an interview? Would you provide the documentation?
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    by msephton 2y ago

    With a browser I can use the original HyperCard via Infinite Mac website. I mention this in my comment. It's insanely great.
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    by msephton 2y ago

    > On the Mac, the alternative to Hypercard was to layout UI widgets in code, with no GUI builder at all Don't forget ResEdit, version 1.0 released December 1985.
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    by msephton 2y ago

    Decker is superficially similar to HyperCard because it's primarily 1-bit, but it's different enough to require a totally new learning curve. It's quite difficult to use, requires learning "Lil" a new and unique lan
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    by msephton 2y ago

    Lol
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    by msephton 3y ago

    Wouldn't it be cool if, to announce their new AI features/services, Apple remade this old "Knowledge Navigator" moonshot piece from 1987 (Sculley-era Apple!)
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    Apple's Future Computer: The Knowledge Navigator (1987) [video](youtube.com)

    3 points by msephton 3y ago|1 comments
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    by msephton 3y ago

    Why was this submission not marked/merged as a dupe? I'd have much preferred that. HN system seems so random at times.
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    by msephton 3y ago

    Users have been asking for 2FA for the last 11 years. Spotify still refusing to add it, even as an opt-in feature.
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    by msephton 3y ago

    I think we all would. But realistically no $200 device is going to run models locally.
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    by msephton 3y ago

    Just added an issue: Safari support should be relatively straightforward using Apple's safari-web-extension-converter cli tool.
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    by msephton 3y ago

    I once bought a car on eBay using their WAP website and my Sony Ericsson K770i, whilst waiting for a London bus. Must be 20 years ago now.
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    Good Ideas in Computer Science(danielchasehooper.com)

    2 points by msephton 3y ago|2 comments
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    by msephton 3y ago

    Haha! I have many insanely specific hobbies. Make of that what you will :)
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    by msephton 3y ago

    I did use a disassembler, but I didn't mention it directly in the blog post - rather it was at the link to 68KMLA. Not really sure why I did that, but I guess the blog post was long enough already. So, I just edited the blog post to me
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    by msephton 3y ago

    I mention this in the article. You can, but you can't assign the backspace/delete yet using either ResEdit or Resourcerer.
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    by msephton 3y ago

    Thanks, have fun! Would like to know what you think of it.
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    by msephton 3y ago

    TL;DR this is a work-in-progress port to Playdate https://play.date of "wipeout-rewrite", which is the rewrite of the PlayStation game Wipeout done by phoboslab, you can read more about that at https://news.
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    Playdate port of PlayStation game Wipeout (wipeout-rewrite by phoboslab)(github.com)

    4 points by msephton 3y ago|1 comments
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    Adding the "Move to Trash" function to System 7.1(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

    25 points by msephton 3y ago|9 comments
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    by msephton 3y ago

    It's called YOYOZO https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38372936
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    by msephton 3y ago

    Really you'd want to both try it for yourself and get wisdom from somebody else. Otherwise, how would you know if they were right/wrong, correct/incorrect? Emulator to run Palm apps on your smart phone https://clou