shawnbaden
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Comment · 3 years ago
https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/mac-os-x
Comment · 8 years ago
Wallace Stegner, 1983:
"National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst."
Source: https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/hisnps/npsthinking/famousquo...
Comment · 8 years ago
If you are interested in an IBM Model M I recommend the Unicomp UB4044A (http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/UB4044A). It's a IBM Model M with USB. I bought one over a decade ago (build date 4/20/2007).
Also, Ars Technica updated the URL date in this story. The original URL is http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/why-i-use-a-20-year-o... and it redirects to the 2018 link here.
Comment · 9 years ago
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Hal Lasko (The Pixel Painter). Hal started using Microsoft Paint when he got a computer on his 85th birthday until his death at 99 in 2014. He made some great looking art bit by bit.
https://vimeo.com/70748579 - The Pixel Painter
Comment · 9 years ago
This reminded me of a passage on pilot checklists from The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande:
> Commercial pilots have been using checklists for decades. Gawande traces this back to a fly-off at Wright Field, Ohio, in 1935, when the Army Air Force was choosing its new bomber. Boeing's entry, the B-17, would later be built by the thousands, but on that first flight it took off, stalled, crashed and burned. The new airplane was complicated, and the pilot, who was highly experienced, had forgotten a routine step. > > From http://old.seattletimes.com/html/books/2010737113_br08checkl...
Comment · 9 years ago
I can’t help but think having such autonomy is tied to profitability. I’m sure there are plenty of examples where an employee at a profitable company doesn’t have autonomy. But how many have autonomy where there's not profitability?
Comment · 9 years ago
This applies to any job: work where what you do is the core discipline. At a law firm, be a lawyer. At a medical practice, be a doctor. As a software engineer, work at a company where software is the product. Don’t write software at an insurance company and expect job satisfaction. At such companies software engineers are seen as replaceable.
Another option: work where what you do is largely represented by upper management. They make the decisions and if they worked in your discipline they will empathize with you, defend you, and promote you.
Comment · 9 years ago
I was reminded of this (http://techland.time.com/2012/04/02/25-years-of-ibms-os2-the...) when OS/2 turned 25 in 2012. So this year marks its 30th anniversary.
From page 3:
> In New York City’s subway system, for instance, the travelers who gain entrance by swiping their MetroCards over 5 million times each weekday do so with the assistance of IBM’s theoretically defunct software.
Comment · 9 years ago
Great work. Followed your Instagram.
Comment · 10 years ago
It appears as early as 1923 but is not cited.
http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/he_w...
Comment · 12 years ago
Not unprecedented. They skipped Office 13.
Comment · 12 years ago
I believe Tim Ferriss said he wrote his first book entirely in Evernote but now raves (with others) about Scrivener.
Keep up the good work.