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Wait, what do you mean? The current owner of Symbolics authorized the development of a new I-Machine emulator? Who is working on it, Kalman Reti and Brad Parker? This is very interesting news, please elaborate.
I don’t think Brad Parker is involved. You can email Reti for more information.
Windows Phone. To this day no Android phone I've used ever as fast, reliable or plain refined as WP8 was. Unique design and many genuinely useful features, and it reflected a time when smartphones could have been vibrant and diverse, not our current two mega-platforms or nothing.
Why doesn't Microsoft just open-source the windows phone OS as an android alternative ?
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It’s broken insofar as there isn’t a complete and coherent “developer story” for building a Windows desktop application that doesn’t look like it came from the 1990s. I call it “the Photoshop test”: Pretend you’re Adobe and you just invented Photoshop in 2018. How do you build the GUI for each desktop operating system? ...considering you need to do things like OpenGL hardware acceleration, 30-bit color, support binar…
Why is the sandboxing such a big issue in the case of a “Photoshop” app? The UWP api seem to cover most OS services that the devs would need, or am I missing something?
* Windows Phone. We need a third viable option in the mobile space. This week we are concerned about the loss of a browser engine, recognizing this is unhealthy for the market. Windows Phone was terrific in many ways and recent concepts by fans such as @boxnwhisker (Harry Dohyun Kim) [1] show how beautiful the Metro design could be today. * Microsoft Image Composer. A little known sprite-oriented graphic arts program…
Picasa (desktop app). It hit a sweet spot for me - linux compatible, very easy to do the majority of simple edits (crop, rotate, colour tweaks), and a few other nice features. The only significant failing was that it couldn't handle removable media at all well. Shotwell is the best I've found so far, but it's not quite the right feature balance for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
Google docs but private. (So back when it was private which I assume it was at some point)
Collabora is just like libre office. It is essentially a libre office thin client. The downside is that it loads an entire libre office on the server with every open window on it. I would like to try OnlyOffice sometime as the developers say it is a client side webapp. They also say they aim for maximum compatibility with MS Office. I am surprised it gets little mention on HN.
Edit.com - Windows command promt text editor I also wish linux had such an editor.
It isn't exactly the same, but mcedit tends to be very dos editor-like (and as a sidenote, i always find it weird that Linux/Unix console programs look so primitive compared to similar programs for DOS).
Lotus Notes. Easy to put together multi user databases with multiple views, security levels, authorization, and signatures.