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Geekophilia

Diary of an Immortal Man

February 11, 2006

Short Fiction by Richard Dooling Diary Of An Immortal Man was a cover story for Esquire Magazine and was nominated for a National Magazine Award. The full text appears online at Kurzweil AI. Diary Of An Immortal Man is kinky science fiction and black comedy, inspired in part by Ray Kurzweil’s tremendous book, The Age [...]

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User Interfaces Should Teach, Not Hide

January 13, 2006

Here’s a fresh look at the age-old tension between those who prefer the Command Line Interface (CLI) to the Graphical User Interface (GUI), by way of an example from my favorite text editor, Vim 7.0. Writing in the Free Software Magazine, Terry Hancock argues that user interfaces should teach, not hide. “The key concept here [...]

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