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Jim Miller
Personal blog · miramontes.com/writingprogrammingwriting
Jim Miller's personal blog at miramontes.com covers programming and writing. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Jim Miller, who worked in Apple's Advanced Technology Group, writes about his ATG-era projects such as LiveDoc, Data Detectors and DropZones, and about end-user programming and spreadsheets.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> OpenDoc For anyone interested in the Apple future that could have been, check out Jim Miller's articles, e.g. on LiveDoc ( https://www.miramontes.com/writing/livedoc/index.php )
Comment linking /writing/livedoc/index.php
on “Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?”Apple had their own research lab from 1986 to 1997. Steve Jobs closed it when he re-joined Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Advanced_Technology_Grou... And they were quite productive: > Apple's ATG was the birthplace of Color QuickDraw, QuickTime, QuickTime VR, QuickDraw 3D, QuickRing, 3DMF the 3D metafile graphics format, ColorSync, HyperCard, Apple events, AppleScript, Apple's PlainTalk speech recognitio…
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on “The Death of Corporate Research Labs”Yes, sadly the state of the art in End User Programming hasn't advanced much since the invention of the spreadsheet. Spreadsheets will stay with us, but I don't believe they are the final form of programming. http://www.miramontes.com/writing/spreadsheet-eup/ (1990)
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on “How Intel missed the smartphone market”Apple's Advanced Technology Group had a few projects that dealt with processing text to discover information structure. Jim Miller who was part of ATG has written a few articles about the work they did: Data Detectors: http://www.miramontes.com/writing/add-cacm/ LiveDoc: http://www.miramontes.com/writing/livedoc/ DropZones: http://www.miramontes.com/writing/dropzones/ Oops ... didn't notice zaroth's earlier link htt…
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on “How does Apple find dates and times in emails?”Link should point here: http://www.miramontes.com/writing/add-cacm/
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on “How does Apple find dates and times in emails?”