Linked List: January 8, 2005

Saturday, 8 January 2005

The Shape of Days: Interview with Brent Simmons ★

Jeff Harrell interviews Brent Simmons. Choice quote from Simmons:

But the main thing to remember is what Walt Disney said, “I don’t make movies to make money. I make money to make more movies.” We went into this business wanting to make software. Money allows us to continue making software.

Longhand ★

Very cool freeware calculator app by Scott Fortmann-Roe:

Longhand is a calculator built from the ground up to facilitate calculation. Most other computer calculators try blindly to emulate the physical format of their predecessors. […] Longhand uses the same paradigm as a word processor. You simply type in equations instead of hunting and pecking virtual calculator buttons. As your equation is entered, Longhand dynamically calculates the answer.

Comes with a nice user manual too, accessed via the Help menu. (Via Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch.)