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waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Lifecycle of the North American Jaguar.

August 28th, 2002

Lifecycle of the North American Jaguar. Some tidbits I’ve discovered already:

  • The vim 6.0 executables I had didn’t work. Get vim 6.1 binaries for OSX, including gvim support. (Go ahead and ln -s /Applications/vim/Vim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim /usr/local/bin/vim for shell usage, too.)
  • My Terminal seems to be really confused about multibyte fonts. Using my preferred setup (ProFont, 9pt.) any instance of l/ (that’s ‘ell’, ‘slash’) will turn into a blank (or a doubly-wide blank if you have your settings slightly different). There’s also Monaco (did anyone else notice the “Monaco CY” font, which seems to be a “Monaco circa 1984″?) but it’s got weird spacing issues (and sometimes has problems with imagined multibyte situations as well). Lots of tweaking to find a font that will work.

Of course, the visual style has REALLY been cleaned up. The old style, which was indeed extremely lickable, has metamorphosed into a cleaner, crisper style that’s eminently more clickable. Let’s take a look, shall we?

MacOS X 10.0-10.1 MacOS X 10.2 “Jaguar”

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