alan-kay

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   by alan-kay 5y ago

   I don't think I have. A little checking will reveal that I said I'm pretty sure I haven't read more than 20K books ...
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   by alan-kay 5y ago

   This is an old original post, but it still worries me. Consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-mode_power_supply To find this requires a combination of a few keystrokes and button pushes plus an "outlook&
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   by alan-kay 5y ago

   What special access to the divine do you think you have that would encourage you to report as facts the last two sentences (which are actually quite false)? You are confusing your internal inferences with what is actually going on -- and to
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   by alan-kay 6y ago

   "Back then" was the 60s (whose decade really ran from about 1963 to 1973). A good quote from Dave Evans (to faculty members who complained about a genius faculty member who could be abrasive): "We don't care if they&#x27
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   by alan-kay 6y ago

   Actually, we didn't claim to have successfully done this. More careful reading of the proposal and reports will easily reveal this. The 20,000 lines of code was a strawman, but we kept to it, and got quite a bit done (and what we did d