On: How I ship projects at big tech companies

[OnlyMortal]

Heh. I can relate to seeing your product on a shelf.

I recall seeing IBM ViaVoice X on shelves a Circuit City. It was rather an ego trip.

[Aeolun → OnlyMortal]

Sometimes it’s odd to realize there’s people that can say this while simultaneously not being my grandfather. There’s a whole period of computer history I skipped.

[bigiain → Aeolun]

FWIW, I'm 57 soon. Old enough that I could totally be some random HN poster's grandfather...

[levysoft → OnlyMortal]

I bought it back in 1998 and started using it right away... it truly felt like the future!

[OnlyMortal → levysoft]

:-) I worked in the first OSX version. I did the AppKit UI being one of the few on the planet who had a NeXT background.

It came with a UK language model as the US model didn’t recognise my accent.