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people that care about software create their own hardware. - Alan Kay

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@pierrechalamet Software is like the fashion industry.

With few exceptions, there is no objective measure of what's objectively better or worse.

But there are of course many subjective measures.

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@ICooper Thanks. That’s my plan for myself, but I need a solution for my friends with Intel Macs.

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I have some friends who need to run MacOS in a virtual machine on their Macs.

What's the easiest to use solution for non-techies?

Ideally free or super cheap.

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@ICooper If it was just me, yes. Alas, I’m trying to put together a guide for an audience that (a) isn’t especially tech savvy and (b) may or may not have bought hardware since 2020.

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Like many people doing composition or arranging, I'm spending time with @MusicXML.

I'm already finding interop challenges. Is there a conformance suite?

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When I worked on .NET, the CIL opcodes named box and unbox always caught my attention.

I work on AR Glasses and we use the term don and undon to refer to putting glasses on/taking them off.

I expect my retirement post and/or eulogy to have the phrase “undon unbox.”

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@shanselman - thoughts?

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I love how the main iOS App Dev tutorial puts accessibility into the main flow and doesn’t make it an appendix.

https://t.co/KKopioE6UD

@donasarkar - feel free to talk to our friends at MSDN about rising to the challenge…

#accessibility

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Just posted a photo @ The Standard, East Village NY https://t.co/WDTDj58aau

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@davidfowl Watches are even better.

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@adambarth I have definitely experienced variations of Greenspan’s Tenth Rule over the last decade. A lot.

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I was pleasantly surprised a few months ago when I realized I was on yet another team that has a shader compiler.

https://t.co/o5TPLPGv6Z

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@davidfowl Let’s not get curried away…

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Actually, K&R was also Prentice Hall, but by the time I signed my first book contract, Kernighan was a series editor at AW and Stevens had published APitUE in that series.

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I gave a talk to the AR CoreUX team earlier in the week. It included some historical stuff, starting with Thompson shell and going through what we are working on right now.

I forgot how well written Inside Macintosh was - Caroline Rose was an inspiration during my writing days.

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Here’s what inspired me to write:

Inside Macintosh I-III
K&R
UNIX Network Programming
Stroustrup 1st Edition (before the book exploded)

All but UNP by Richard Stevens were published by Addison Wesley, which is why there was no other publisher for me.

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I’m not sure which of these Paul Allen legacies I’ll miss the most.

Seattle Cinerama or Living Computing Museum

@BillGates - any interest in helping bring these Seattle institutions back to life? I’m happy to work a few days a year at either one if that helps.

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I love computing history and always have.

Having now been full time in AR for 5-ish years, I wonder how history will judge HoloLens.

Will it be Engelbart’s mouse?
Xerox Alto?
128k Macintosh?

I can convince myself of all three, but future humans will be the ones to decide.

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I’m officially having the most satisfying and fun time at work since Xbox in 2010-2013. Great people, incredibly hard problems, and an aim worthy of pouring my heart and soul into.

AR is such fertile soil for product and technology people.

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Four more days until year two!!

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What an amazing week of presence and good will.

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I believe John Waite was editor over all of these - again, why I needed to be an AW writer.