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1•sonniya•4m ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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1•jesperordrup•8m ago•0 comments

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1•GaryBluto•24m ago•1 comments

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6•tempodox•49m ago•3 comments

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8•petethomas•1h ago•3 comments

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2•fkdk•1h ago•0 comments

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1•au-ai-aisl•1h ago•1 comments

Open in hackernews

The Mac calculator's original design came from letting Steve play with menus

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-mac-calculators-original-design-came-from-letting-steve-jobs-play-with-sliders-for-ten-minutes/

6•duxup•2mo ago

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duxup•2mo ago

Sorry, title too long so I struggled to shorten it. Original tittle:

The Mac calculator’s original design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for ten minutes

pestatije•2mo ago

sure, and it was the day after the visit to Xerox Parc

cben•2mo ago

I'm not sure of the timing (and whether you're sarcastic) but yeah, I found it funny compared to PARC showing Steve Jobs how the Smalltalk environment allowing modifying GUI behavior at run-time let them iterate quickly, sometimes in front of users (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknEhXyZgsg&lc=UgwYCZ7PefOXO...).

I guess https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html is the closest you get with a compiled language :-)

P.S. https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html has good historical context on that visit(s)