As everyone knows by now, Steve Jobs died last Wednesday, 5th of October. I first found about it while browsing twitter, sitting in the departure lounge of San Francisco International airport. I think my tweets from then tell the story.
5:59pm: Fuck. 6:00pm:
I started programming for the Apple //e back in 1986, when I was seven. [...]
Tagged apple, computingSo, if you’re going to manage to convince the world to change the way it does something, it had better have an benefit that’s immediately obvious and take no more than a few seconds to explain how to do. — A long, rambly exploration of the state…, this is [...]
Still, there’s nothing technically preventing you from using [mouse button] chording in your program. If you want to code it up, then more power to you. — Why is there no support in the window manager for mouse button chording?, The Old New Thing
Does not mean it is a good [...]
George Orwell’s 1984 is rightly a hugely famous novel of the twentieth century. His depiction of a totalitarian future was so griping and compelling that the words and phrases he coined in the creation of his vision have embedded themselves in popular language and culture. I wonder how many teenagers watching reality TV understand where [...]