Don Box @donbox

people that care about software create their own hardware. - Alan Kay largo-la.com Yarrow Point, WA, USA Joined October 2008

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Don Box @donbox

2 years ago

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

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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

@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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2 years ago

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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Don Box @donbox

4 years ago

@shanselman - thoughts?

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4 years ago

I love how the main iOS App Dev tutorial puts accessibility into the main flow and doesn’t make it an appendix. developer.apple.com/tutorials/app-… @donasarkar - feel free to talk to our friends at MSDN about rising to the challenge… #accessibility

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4 years ago

Just posted a photo @ The Standard, East Village NY instagram.com/p/CiS3UkduYYJ/…

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4 years ago

@davidfowl Watches are even better.

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4 years ago

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

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4 years ago

I was pleasantly surprised a few months ago when I realized I was on yet another team that has a shader compiler. sparkar.facebook.com/ar-studio/lear…

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4 years ago

@davidfowl Let’s not get curried away…

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4 years ago

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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Don Box @donbox

4 years ago

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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4 years ago

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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4 years ago

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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4 years ago

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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Don Box @donbox

4 years ago

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.