http://matt.me63.com Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:58:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://matt.me63.com/i-wouldnt/my-conversations-with-computers/#comment-1978 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:20:10 +0000 https://me63.wordpress.com/i-wouldnt/my-conversations-with-computers/#comment-1978 [...] a child in the late 1970s and early 80s I enjoyed a golden age in which learning to code was part and parcel of everyday use of computers. Now as a parent in the Noughties I see my primary [...]

]]> http://matt.me63.com/i-wouldnt/my-conversations-with-computers/#comment-548 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:37:23 +0000 https://me63.wordpress.com/i-wouldnt/my-conversations-with-computers/#comment-548 Just came across this from Don Norman:
“Command line interfaces. Once that was all we had. Then they disappeared, replaced by what we thought was a great advance: GUIs. GUIs were – and still are – valuable, but they fail to scale to the demands of today’s systems. So now command line interfaces are back again, hiding under the name of search. ”
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/ui_breakthroughcomma.html

]]> http://matt.me63.com/i-wouldnt/my-conversations-with-computers/#comment-6 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:12:25 +0000 https://me63.wordpress.com/i-wouldnt/my-conversations-with-computers/#comment-6 I asked them whether they named you after a computer and they denied that they would do anything like this, claiming your middle name comes from a poet.

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