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ProxCoquesyesterday at 9:30 PM4 repliesview on HN

It will never cease to amaze to me that Apple (under Jef Raskin who also wrote about this in The Humane Interface) observed and fixed problems with interactions like this in SYSTEM 6 in like 1993 or something - only for the same problem to have to be re-descovered and re-fixed decades later.


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pastel8739today at 3:13 AM

Because every single application rebuilds their own operating system

hinkleyyesterday at 11:53 PM

Chesterton's Fence.

Why on earth do we need this thing here?

Oh, that's why.

projektfutoday at 1:19 AM

Raskin left Apple in 1982.