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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Sci... by bagels on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:38PM (#34346074)
It's not very useful as a technical reference. The text is so de-emphasized in comparison to the graph, it's impossible to read.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Sci... by thristian on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @08:04PM (#34347647)
> Instead of learning how Raskin’s color scheme worked, Jobs hired an artist, San Francisco’s Tom Kamifuji, who was a hot, up-and-coming artist in the late 70’s / early 80’s. Jobs gave him free reign to make it more artistic, though Jobs failed to explain that the original color scheme was important for using the chart easily.

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