https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html
He also wrote Hypercard, and I'd really like to see a modern successor which had the attributes:
- stand-alone desktop app (and/or app for iPad on app store)
- simple syntax (block diagramming like Scratch/Blockly seems a natural fit)
- simple creation/arrangement of standard GUI elements (so that localization and accessibility still work)
- being opensource (still feeling burned by having donated to Runtime Revolution/Livecode's opensource effort)
(so basically a modern, opensource alternative to VisualBasic, and yes, I keep asking about this --- there are lots of programs in this space, but none are quite as easy/simple as to have gotten me past the hurdle of download/install/actually try making something/being successful at it, and I freely admit I'm a mediocre programmer with not enough time who is bogged down on his current project....)
I don't know about that, but in many/most organisations it's actively discouraged so you simply don't see it. That naturally occurs in large corporations where individuals have very narrow responsibilities, but I've also been surprised to find it happening even in the smallest of startups on occasion.
It’s crazy to post a take like this on the website of Ycombinator, whose entire business model revolves around finding and elevating exactly those types of people.
Reminds me of that guy who built a feature-complete web-version of Photoshop.
Features are planned in sprints. Add a widget here, remove a widget there. We end up with no design principles or vision, just a Frankenstein monster of junk.
His process sounds a lot like (dare I say) waterfall. Spending a long time in the design phase until you know what you want to build.
I think where Agile goes wrong is people thinking that you don't need someone who is actually experienced and good at writing software like this (like Atkinson), you can just pick a random individual off the streets who a lot of the time can't even code, and have them take a theoretical course about writing software like this.
While Apple was not a startup at the time Bill did his work there, the Mac project very much was a startup inside Apple.
I didn’t really understand what this meant until I heard Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt. He transformed the song, made it his own, to the point where a lot of people don’t know about the original. Even Trent Reznor said Hurt is Johnny Cash’s song now. This is how a great artist steals; they elevate and transform the original into something new that is able to connect with more people in a deeper way.
When Jobs said it, I’m sure his view was that Apple took what they saw at Xerox and made it their own, to a level that makes Xerox’s original largely irrelevant, like a great artist would. Meanwhile, Microsoft were not great artists, and simply copied.