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fidotron ◴[] No.44376229[source]
This stuff is why I am so cynical about modern software development management. Bill Atkinson wrote QuickDraw, a masterpiece of low level programming, but also had a very solid grasp about what it was for right down to the UX it was to enable, and as shown here how the UX evolved with user testing. These days the idea someone can span that range is seen as an impossibility.
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1. amelius ◴[] No.44379582[source]
> QuickDraw (...) These days the idea someone can span that range is seen as an impossibility.

Reminds me of that guy who built a feature-complete web-version of Photoshop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33334521