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If you're running the 4k display at 1440p, I'd agreed. But I run two 4k 60hz displays on a 16" MacBook Pro work laptop at 2880x1440 effective resolution and it looks fine to me. Ye…

The author says: "This is my detailed criticism of macOS (in market context of the Neo), and the many paper cuts Apple needs to fix to catch up."

The opening to John McPhee's essay "Los Angeles Against the Mountains" is part of his book The Control of Nature . This first section of that essay is one of my favorite pieces of …

Are there any sample sections available?

This is an outstanding paper; one of my favorites in all of computing. Read it and marvel at all that Kay has been part of.

I don't think I'd ever seen that document. Thank you! I worked on the Basic Workstation team; my part was the desktop and folders code. As I recall, the whole BWS rewrite was the r…

Federico Viticci of MacStories has created S-GPT, a free shortcut that allows you to submit queries to ChatGPT. The shortcut works on iPhones, iPads, and MacOS devices, and allows …

"The G3000 also monitors pilot activity/inactivity and cabin pressure and can automatically engage Autoland or Emergency Descent Mode if no activity is detected." - Arstechnica art…

Yes! When I was a junior or senior in college, I went through the list of PARC reports and made a list of perhaps 20 or more of them I might like. I was very surprised to eventuall…

The writer, Nilay Patel, is editor-in-chief of The Verge.

"Courage" is a reference to Apple executive Phil Schiller's use of that word to describe Apple's removal of the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 last Fall.

The current holder of the title of oldest person ever was 123, and even that age is well beyond the current oldest person person at 116. I'm skeptical that they'll be able to indep…

Said book - Annals of the Former World - is only $5.99 in Kindle form at Amazon. It's far from my favorite work of McPhee's, but $5.99 is quite a bargain. http://www.amazon.com/Ann…

Glad to see someone posted this again. This is without a doubt one of the best papers I've ever read. Drives home that Alan Kay is truly brilliant.

Slides are also available at https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/python-3-dot-3-trust-me-...

There were in fact at least two GopherCons ('92 and '93) focused on the Gopher protocol. I worked at the time for CICNet, and we hosted one of the conferences in Ann Arbor.

Ironically, this review is almost unreadable on a third generation iPad: the layout blows the text up far too large to be readable.

FYI, I heard from someone years ago: it's pronounced Zagat like "Da Cat".

It's worth mentioning that you can also read the book for free online: http://www.ericsink.com/vcbe/index.html Take a look and decide if it's something you like to have in paper fo…

Whoops! Context lost when I posted that. What I was saying was .. I was a programmer on Star from 82-89. I went straight from college to Xerox - and it was like working in a time m…

This shot - http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-8... - third row down, second across - is actually a screenshot of XDE, the Xerox Development Environment. Th…

I remember I was working on the desktop part of the system, and we were implementing "background copy" - and the hardest part was figuring out what the UI should be for doing a for…