jamesthomson,
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Saving this somewhere safe for June!

metaning,
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@jamesthomson @lisamelton back before we returned to searching in the browser directly, like animals.

ockali,

@jamesthomson was thinking of you when I heard the news 🙏

Drwave,
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@jamesthomson karma’s a bitch.

jamesthomson,
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@Drwave I had a good run.

Drwave,
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@jamesthomson right there with you, pally.

Chancerubbage,
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@jamesthomson @siracusa

I noticed differences I can no longer recall between Watson and Sherlock.Any one recall the differences in how they worked?

I continued to use both until OS X rolled around.

Chancerubbage,
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@jamesthomson @siracusa

Sherlock for what good it was, became overshadowed completely by the verb it became.

I used both Sherlock and Watson simultaneously, liked both. I think both were at an amazing crossroads when high bandwidth fast internet in a pre-Google soup of multiple search engines created magic. With a single query you got lightning fast results from multiple engines minimal no cruft.

Sherlock’s major difference? Its integration with Safari?

Sherlock became searchlight?

didole,

@jamesthomson You always meet twice in life, as they say 😛

macfixer,
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@jamesthomson Did I have to watch Sherlock 1 first?

jpurnell,
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@jamesthomson my friends’ kid just got his first ipad, and the only thing I could say was a must-buy was #42. He’ll be a die-hard

matthewcassinelli,
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@jamesthomson I’m looking out for the full-page NYT ad saying “Welcome, Apple. Seriously.”

jamesthomson,
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@matthewcassinelli Might have to be something cheaper, at this rate!

nygl,

@jamesthomson Better start working on some orange and grey colour schemes.

eabowers,

@jamesthomson You know how many times per day I use PCalc in the Mac menu bar? Like…50. Pretty sure the price I paid for PCalc has paid for itself dozens of times over already. Pfft. Bring on the iPad calculator.

uliwitness,
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@eabowers @jamesthomson I wasn't even aware the widget existed … Is there a way to get the Programmer Calculator in the widget?

jamesthomson,
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@uliwitness @eabowers Yes, you can get most of it there I think - you can duplicate an existing layout to the widget section, though some things like conversions, constants, and functions won't work, because I can't show another window.

uliwitness,
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@jamesthomson @eabowers Ah, somehow I completely overlooked the “layout" popup in widget settings. Also, having widget layouts under "Layout” but they switch on that layout for the app was also distracting me.

jamesthomson,
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@uliwitness @eabowers Just for the purposes of editing!

arroz,
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@jamesthomson But does it have bananas in the about box?

jamesthomson,
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@arroz Not a single one!

jamesthomson,
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For context, I only worked on the app for a weekend, and it was Sherlock 3 that actually Sherlocked Watson, not Sherlock 2. But still, irony noted.

bi11jon,

@jamesthomson and still you made it to the liner notes.

jamesthomson,
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@bi11jon That's because they were good people who ran that team, and I think they appreciated the efforts I made. It was the weekend before a MacWorld keynote, and I added brushed metal to the app at the last minute.

benjaminherrin,
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@jamesthomson What is life but getting memes slightly wrong?

jamesthomson,
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@benjaminherrin Indeed!

the_other_jon,
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@jamesthomson won’t you be embarrassed when, instead of a calculator, the app just creates large amounts of bananas.

jamesthomson,
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@the_other_jon A rising tide lifts all bananas!

the_other_jon,
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@jamesthomson Day-O. Daaaaay-O.

Arcticulate,
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@jamesthomson I know about Sherlock and Sherlocking, but Watson, apart from the obvious book character reference … well, this is what ”Watson” is to me, the Dr Watson application in Windows 3.10, except Win2k is depicted here (it survived until at least Windows 7, maybe even longer than that): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.

Making things even more confusing, it used to be called Sherlock in the past, the Wikipedia article claims 😅

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