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Omar Rizwan
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Large: I’ve been developing a take that computer history is one of the worst types of histories in terms of its body count on readers It’s just misleading and full of exaggerations and romanticism rivaled only by that of war history Thereby ruining young lives
October 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Microsoft researcher Raman Sarin holds the Coffee Compass, which will locate the nearest Starbucks. It was "a study in user interfaces" that could be developed for other items. Paul Joseph Brown/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
October 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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July 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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i just tried to download a sad Pikachu gif and it crashed my entire browser
July 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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i saw this show the other day www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/... where there's like 1 curve on 1 piece in the entire room and everything else is all straight edges
July 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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it was also interesting to recall the pre-gadget gadgets that were just [my old iPhone + old plastic toy + battery pack + projector] ziptied together, and how that already had compelling usage patterns

(in some ways, we still haven't caught the gadget up to those!)
July 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Rare 'subway or PATH' route suggestion
July 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Products and brands[edit] Dassault Systèmes' currently supported roster of brands and industries served (as of May 2024): 3DS Brands[29][30] Name Industry Slogan 3DEXCITE Engagement marketing "Engineer the excitement" 3DVIA Virtual Home Design Software "Shape your dream" BIOVIA Scientific Software "Model the biosphere" CATIA Computer-Aided Design "Shape the world we live in" Centric PLM PLM Software "Plan your collection's success" DELMIA Manufacturing Operations Software "Make it happen" ENOVIA PLM Software "Plan your definition of success" GEOVIA Geology Modeling Software "Model the sustainable planet" MEDIDATA SaaS for Clinical Trials "Power smarter treatments and healthier people" NETVIBES Data science "Reveal information intelligence" OUTSCALE[31] Cloud computing "The leading sovereign and sustainable operator of trusted business experience as a service" SIMULIA Simulation Software “Reveal the world we live in” SOLIDWORKS Computer-Aided Design “Authentic design experience”
June 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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messaging
I think it's sad how e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, and text messaging have all sort of converged They should all be slightly distinct forms
June 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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May 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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-] floridawhiteguy 7 points 6 years ago A number of hospitals have found it's far easier to train nurses how to program and design UI/UX than it is to teach IT pros to think like nurses.
May 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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May 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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i don't feel like this happened
The Anti-Mac principles outlined here are optimized for the category of users and data that we believe will be dominant in the future: people with extensive computer experience who want to manipulate huge numbers of complex information objects while being connected to a network shared by immense numbers of other users and computers
May 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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I feel like the best system for knowledge mgmt is the one you come up with for yourself because then it fits your idiosyncratic habits & you're emotionally committed to it due to sunk cost
May 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Reminds me of this also (web.archive.org/web/20150318...)
The “Trust Me It Works” Hacks The hackers who build projects like this are brave. Really brave. They walk into a project knowing that they won’t have a pretty face to demo. These projects are usually the most technically challenging and often the only output comes from the terminal. “Trust me, this means it works,” the hackers say. (And I do–and I respect them immensely.)
May 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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/nod
One of my biggest inspirations The future of interface design lives in early 2000s ° Japanese ps1 games that don’t have English translations
April 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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its like when you see something cool and unexpected and then you realise its art and its so disappointing
April 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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While flying on airlines today has its own unique set of hassles, actually booking a flight is (relatively) painless. This wasn’t so in the 1950s, when schedulers went through racks of index cards, each with a particular flight’s info, all stored in what resembled a library card catalog. Only a few schedulers could fit around the card catalogs, and making a flight reservation could take an hour or two. Through a chance encounter, an IBM executive met
April 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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We saw this ticker teletype today which feels very related
April 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM