One of the VisiCalc guys, CTO @AlphaSoftware, DBDemo, blogger, podcaster, iPad app: NoteTakerHD, president of Software Garden, Inc. (SGI) Also: @danb@qoto.org
Joined July 2007
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Dan Bricklin retweeted
20 Aug 2023
Sorry to hear this. The computer industry is so young that so many of its pioneering giants have still been with us. But that era is fading away. reuters.com/technology/adobe…
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19 Jun 2023
Apple #VisionPro: What happens when you watch something that literally brings tears to your eyes? Are the internals waterproof? Would tears get on cameras or affect eye-tracking? Easy take off/put back on w/pause/repeat-last-10-sec to wipe eyes? (Asking for a friend...)
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Dan Bricklin retweeted
9 Jun 2023
Re: Apple Vision Pro pricing: Back in 1981, my father paid the equivalent of $10,000 in 2023 dollars for a loaded TRS-80 Model III. His employer did foot the bill. But it still reminded me of how pricey the earliest PCs were.
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8 Jun 2023
The original Apple II required execs to use a keyboard like a (usually female) secretary, have a Sony TV on the desk, and a rainbow ribbon cable. How dorky! With s/w like spreadsheets they outdid their coworkers. Wait for killer apps for #VisionPro. It's worthy of them.
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8 Jun 2023
Did Microsoft stop hardware & OS work after talking to Apple about #VisionPro, but continue all the Office, etc., work? MS reportedly made more (after costs) on each 1984 Mac selling S/W (MultiPlan, Word, etc.) than Apple did the H/W. MS has gesture experience from PenWindows.
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8 Jun 2023
It seems that Apple is "over the bar" on a variety of important "must haves". (One is consistent "no nausea" reports including from multiple females. Also affordable for enough developers.) Maybe they finally got there so it's time to release to developers to innovate. #VisionPro
8 Jun 2023
"Vision Pro and VisionOS feel like they’ve been pulled forward in time from the future. I haven’t had that feeling about a new product since the original iPhone in 2007. There are several aspects of the experience that felt impossible."
daringfireball.net/2023/06/f…
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Dan Bricklin retweeted
24 Mar 2023
The launch of ChatGPT Plugins is one of the most significant platform offerings ever. Embedding, distribution, utility.
And it reminds me of @DanB ‘s Cornucopia of the Commons essay where the act of using the database adds value to it. bricklin.com/cornucopia.htm
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22 Mar 2023
What should Amazon have said would happen to DPReview.com after being frozen to show an example of support for the Internet as a trusted repository? Example: "Read-only for at least 20 yrs not breaking incoming links with goal of in perpetuity."
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22 Mar 2023
I wrote about "long-term" 19 years ago: bricklin.com/200yearsoftware… "Software That Lasts 200 Years". E.g.: "...General information kept by society includes knowledge and expression, and artifacts representative of culture. 1/2
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22 Mar 2023
...the time frame for keeping such records is measured in decades or centuries. I can go to city hall and find out the details of ownership relating to my house going back to when it was built in the late 1800's..." 2/2
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21 Mar 2023
Archive.org has dpreview.com going back to 1999. I just donated to them to help keep all that information around. The manner of the shutdown ("a limited period after...[April 2023]": dpreview.com/news/5901145460…) is a reminder of how important doing that is.
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Dan Bricklin retweeted
15 Feb 2023
Object to the pizza used here as an example. Pizza is probably the most balanced of fast feeds with fairly decent nutritional value.
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Dan Bricklin retweeted
15 Feb 2023
He discusses what he's learned from his blog, and two things stand out for me:
"Writing is one of the best forms of learning." So true. I never fully understand a topic until I've written about it.
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Dan Bricklin retweeted
12 Feb 2023
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12 Feb 2023
39 years ago (in Sports time) we were 6 hours from the Apple Macintosh 1984 commercial. It signaled that the world was about to change.
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Dan Bricklin retweeted
7 Feb 2023
Spreadsheets for the rest of us. This is... pretty awesome:
loom.com/share/a9be389360604…
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Dan Bricklin retweeted
6 Feb 2023
Lots of juicy bits in here as @jaygoldberg and I discuss architecture battles and how there is a shift (driven by intense competition) away from general-purpose silicon and to purpose-built silicon.
Check out @T_h_e_Circuit if you haven't already.
6 Feb 2023
Episode 5: x86 vs. Arm vs. RISC-V, Shifting from General Purpose to Specific Purpose Silicon
With @jaygoldberg and @BenBajarin
share.transistor.fm/s/25e48c…
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas……
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/36gVee……
Overcast:
overcast.fm/itunes1661329711
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3 Feb 2023
My friend @alexjgoldstein is teaching a class on PR. Good luck to him!
3 Feb 2023
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