Bret Victor on working at Apple.

But without it, I would have never read the rest of it, so thank you. I think I just spend about 50 minutes getting schooled by Mr. Victor. Amazing concepts.

(everything I just typed feels trite after the sweeping visions imparted in the literature on that site. Seriously. I'm going to bed.)

Re: Bret Victor on working at Apple.

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Post by robinramael » Wed, May 11, 2011, 9:50 AM UTC

geuis wrote: post #4

It would be awesome if Bret wasn't using so many CSS3 effects on his site, causing my iOS browser to crash repeatedly.

yes, because that's the fault of the site and not the browser.

Re: Bret Victor on working at Apple.

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Post by cabalamat » Wed, May 11, 2011, 9:51 AM UTC

Didn't read due to crap web design.

Re: Bret Victor on working at Apple.

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Post by MichaelStubbs » Wed, May 11, 2011, 9:51 AM UTC

geuis wrote: post #4

It would be awesome if Bret wasn't using so many CSS3 effects on his site, causing my iOS browser to crash repeatedly.

It would be awesome if your iOS browser didn't crash when it's trying to display something that should be well within its capabilities.

Though it appears the content is loaded in a frame anyway, so here's a link to the content which should be ok: http://worrydream.com/Apple/

Re: Bret Victor on working at Apple.

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Post by nl » Wed, May 11, 2011, 9:53 AM UTC

andrewguenther wrote: post #3

jamesaguilar wrote: post #2

If only someone had warned him of their secretive culture before he started.

Is a warning even necessary? I am fairly certain every company works this way.

Umm.. no they don't

Many companies encourage people to talk about their work. See, for example, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Twitter etc.

Obviously they have some restrictions - but nothing like Apple.

Re: Bret Victor on working at Apple.

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Post by Argorak » Wed, May 11, 2011, 9:54 AM UTC

Hate to say it: thats not even an Apple problem. Almost every corporate research division works like this. A lot of ideas go there to die.