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wdurden

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    Comment #32508640

    Spiritual successors are so hard to find. I could use one for RadioUserland and another for CityDesk

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    Comment #32508597

    But there are always counterexamples too ... Stephen Wolframs and Nassim Talebs

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    Comment #30806737

    ClarisWorks was created like this too. https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php

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    Comment #30666478

    Ima hafta call baloney on this one ... If WalterBright was real he would'a wrote a language ... even better than C! Maybe throw in some memory management. Just sayin' Plus, "Zortec…

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    Comment #30628838

    deForest .. a man out of time. Then there was Bones. And Forrest Mims guides at RadioShack! SoundJam definitely had the better name though.

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    Comment #30628157

    There's alway's John Walker's approach, the founder of Autocad The Hacker's diet archived at fourmilab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker%27s_Diet https://www.fourmilab.ch/ha…

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    Comment #30615905

    Oh, but yes, that PP slide was bad. Symantic's More on a Mac Plus would have allowed a better job 15 years earlier.

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    Comment #30615854

    Don't dare try to question the narrative with physics and science. A Feynman and an O ring in ice water or a Tufte on visualizations will always be hired in at certain levels. For …

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    Comment #30614487

    If you liked this one, you might also like .. https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/

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    Comment #30606525

    Livecode works in that fashion but it might be too costly to explore. The learning curves are always steep in just finding out if an environment can do what you need. XOJO is anoth…

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    Comment #30606306

    Ahhh, reminiscent of the G4 Desktop Supercomputer .. https://www.deseret.com/1999/9/1/19463524/apple-unveils-g4-d... I kinda believe em this time, but time will tell.

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    Comment #30601782

    It's always a combination of capabilities and chance and adaptation. Without Mike Markkula there would have been no first Apple. The early docs are fascinating as well https://arch…