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I think Alan Kay is referring to Charles Simonyi. According to Forbes, his net worth is $4.3 billion: https://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-simonyi/

I considered Virgil to be a good friend of mine for a very long time, and the last few years have been deeply saddening for me due to his increasingly bizarre beliefs and his irres…

Still waiting for the HyperCard source code to be released. I am acquainted with one of the members of the original HyperCard team, but he says his old floppies are no longer reada…

Actually, the Russians developed a completely different programming language Prolog and Prol2 that had nothing to do with the French Prolog. It just happened to have the same name.…

But much less than against C++.

Someone should create a Coursera clone that's not hosted in the US.

Fortunately for us, Apple acquiring NeXT instead of Be means that we get to program iOS and OS X in Objective-C instead of C++.

I wonder what are the advantages/disadvantages between a PEG and say, a Pratt parser ( http://javascript.crockford.com/tdop/tdop.html )?

I feel like I have to get good grades, work research projects, and develop good relationships with other students, TAs, and professors in order to become better. I find it hard to …

Do explain how and why so many CS graduates hold on to cargo-cult notions?

So the way the OCD works is that I HAVE to have my documents formatted a certain way (e.g. characters per line), the time stamps a certain nice number, or I get super angry at myse…

I too am currently having the same problem. I am attending a very large state school (over 40,000 students) and I am struggling to connect with people. I also have severe depressio…

What happened to the ebnf package?

Inaccurate? How so?

I have my birthday fairly late in the year, so technically when I started UCLA I was 17 years old.

This reminds me of Richard Hamming's talk "You and Your Research": http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html "I noticed the following facts about people who work w…

If there is a university near you, go to the library and use the computers there.

Eazy-E was right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfMXROZ9qvo

Dealers of Lighting by Michael A. Hiltzik. It's a great book about the beginnings of Xerox PARC.

I think you can only get those if you go to MIT or CMU. The vast majority of CS programs and lecturers aren't that good, and certainly worse than what you could teach yourself on y…

What would be more interesting, would be if he found a way to grow different fingerprints.

This is what I don't get about Americans - they have no toasting tradition. I grew up in Ukraine, and I remember being required to give toasts at dinners ever since I was a little …

Actually, in the Soviet Union you used to have 3-kopek and 15-kopek coins, as well as 3-ruble notes.

I've always been fascinated with Chuck Moore's VLSI design tools. How does he manage to design working VLSI chips with such limited functionality? Does he do complex simulation by …