Inside Macintosh
by Rose, Caroline · first published 1985
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…That kind of makes sense. Or should you use (0,0)-(1,1) for a single pixel, and (0,0)-(0,0) is an empty rectangle? These are not easy questions to answer. One of the best explanations I've seen was in Inside Macintosh, written by my friend Caroline Rose. Here is a discussion with Guido's and Caroline's thoughts on zeroes and ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6602497 Let me leave you with an Amicus Curiae…
on “Cache invalidation is one of the hardest problems in computer science” ↗Compare[1]: > Pretty soon, I figured out that if Caroline [Rose, the author of the original edition of Inside Macintosh] had trouble understanding something, it probably meant that the design was flawed. [1] https://www.folklore.org/Inside_Macintosh.html
on “Blogging Like a Hacker (2008)” ↗…writer. She not only can explain things in clear and simple terms, but she was also an accomplished programmer before branching into technical writing. Here is a story about the documentation that became Inside Macintosh: > I sat down to meet with Caroline for the first time, and she couldn't have been more different than the previous writer. As soon as I began to explain the first routine, she started bombarding me…
on “Notes on Technical Writing” ↗Caroline Rose was a technical writer at Apple from 1982, lead writer and editor of "Inside Macintosh". Apple-era stars at 1h22m in the video.
on “Oral History of Caroline Rose, Writer of Inside Macintosh” ↗Caroline Rose was a technical writer at Apple from 1982, lead writer and editor of "Inside Macintosh". Apple-era starts at 1h22m in the video, NeXT-era at 1h58m.
on “Oral history of Caroline Rose, writer of Inside Macintosh (2023) [video]” ↗Be sure to check out her stories on Folkore.org: https://www.folklore.org/0-index.html?author=Caroline+Rose and esp.: https://www.folklore.org/Inside_Macintosh.html
on “Oral history of Caroline Rose, writer of Inside Macintosh (2023) [video]” ↗