Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
your intent is pure
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I believe you've added the word "mandatory" :)
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to JacksonP,
just wait for that conversation about more workish matters, then :)
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to chris,
platitudes
dick
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to chris,
I take it you missed Russell's earlier comment about not doing that, then.
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to Bart Janssen,
56 seems far too young
But look at the sheer *quality* of achievement.
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Only heard this sad news as we walked into the museum tonight.
The first computer I switched on was an Apple ][. I admired the way the first Mac had a massive full colour graphics environment even though the tiny built-in b&w display wasn't anywhere near there yet. Word for Mac was a revelation. My personal highlight some years later was laying out a magazine over a long weekend in a hired design studio with 5 high-spec Macs all to myself (and a dye-sublimation printer for good measure). Who needs sleep anyway?
Career choices subsequently forced me to the world of Windoze but I've always remembered how much more compelling and intuitively obvious Macs were to use.
To me, the impact of Steve Jobs is more broadly in what Russell noted when the man stepped down recently - putting people's human experience (including joy and beauty) at the centre of the product development process. In a world of beige PCs and inscrutable appliance interfaces, that mattered. It still does. We all owe him. I certainly do.
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
and thank you for your generosity this evening, too.
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Tom Semmens,
I don't agree with this in the slightest
The design intent may bear no resemblance to the actual incentives or behaviours. Allowing voters to re-rank lists would be one fix.
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Hard News: The price is that they get to…, in reply to BenWilson,
who writes more than 8KB in a single blog comment?
Pretty much the opposite of Twitter, eh.
It's more of a wide-reaching human search engine than a place for complex philosophical insights. I don't put much weight on an Aussie philosopher complaining about that.