Clear example of decline bias. The "ease" of personal computers in the 1980's? For those of us who grew up with a TRS-80 model 4 running CP/M, no, I'm sorry, the title is much too large of an...
Clear example of decline bias. The "ease" of personal computers in the 1980's? For those of us who grew up with a TRS-80 model 4 running CP/M, no, I'm sorry, the title is much too large of an exaggeration. Some of the suggestions are true - applications should be "offline" by default . . .but others . . . I'm sorry, but I enjoy the occasional symbolic link to a file.
The title is an exaggeration, but given that most of the examples boil down to "This is how Apple's System x handled it" with occasional mentions of similar contemporary design choices, I don't...
The title is an exaggeration, but given that most of the examples boil down to "This is how Apple's System x handled it" with occasional mentions of similar contemporary design choices, I don't think the difficulties in other setups invalidates the article. Like, go emulate any early Macintosh and there is a certain intuitive unity which can't be found on any modern machine. Lots of things have gotten better, of course, and their "hello" project doesn't look like it's trying to undo that progress, but I think they're right that to empower users the most, some lessons need to be learned from the usability successes of the past.
I can change the title here...I really don't see this as a nostalgia piece, so if that would help keep the conversation away from the bold original title, maybe I should.
Clear example of decline bias. The "ease" of personal computers in the 1980's? For those of us who grew up with a TRS-80 model 4 running CP/M, no, I'm sorry, the title is much too large of an exaggeration. Some of the suggestions are true - applications should be "offline" by default . . .but others . . . I'm sorry, but I enjoy the occasional symbolic link to a file.
The title is an exaggeration, but given that most of the examples boil down to "This is how Apple's System x handled it" with occasional mentions of similar contemporary design choices, I don't think the difficulties in other setups invalidates the article. Like, go emulate any early Macintosh and there is a certain intuitive unity which can't be found on any modern machine. Lots of things have gotten better, of course, and their "hello" project doesn't look like it's trying to undo that progress, but I think they're right that to empower users the most, some lessons need to be learned from the usability successes of the past.
I can change the title here...I really don't see this as a nostalgia piece, so if that would help keep the conversation away from the bold original title, maybe I should.
Relevant follow-up project: hello: Let’s make a FreeBSD for “mere mortals”