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I’m feeling sad right now and absorbing some bad news. Today, I found out that Larry Tesler passed away.
If you don’t know who Larry is, he was a computer scientist in the field of human-computer interaction and worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo. He’s also known as the inventor of modeless text editing, cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and…