Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true
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Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true
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#3The ad layout on mobile makes this article unreadable on my phone to the point of rage quitting halfway through or so. How appropriate somehow...
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#4The ad layout on mobile makes this article unreadable on my phone to the point of rage quitting halfway through or so. How appropriate somehow...
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#5Elon didn't wait, he just made it happen
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#6Elon didn't wait, he just made it happen
I don't know Elon Musk personally, but I'm pretty sure he'd refer to Alan Kay as one of the giants on whose shoulders he and quite a few industries stand on.
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#7Just today I read that VPRI fonc mailing list was shutting down because they shifted focus onto other area (communication design or something like that). A YC incubator thing IIRC.
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#8> rather than the wheels for the mind that Steve Jobs envisioned.
Proper quote, for those confused:
"I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. Humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list....That didn't look so good, but then someone at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle and a man on a bicycle blew the condor away. That's what a computer is to me: the computer is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”
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#9I found it interesting that in an HN discussion about how to auto-update comments Alan Kay said, "How about a little model of time in a GUI?"[1] It ties into when he said of smartphone apps, "It's painful to see people using billions of devices that have forgot that undo is a good idea." [2]
It made me think about how things like Redux (or even just Google Drive revision history) where you can 'time travel' through state can be more important for UI than we realize sometimes.
Re: Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true
#10I found it interesting that in an HN discussion about how to auto-update comments Alan Kay said, "How about a little model of time in a GUI?"[1] It ties into when he said of smartphone apps, "It's painful to see people using billions of devices that have forgot that undo is a good idea." [2] It made me think about how things like Redux (or even just Google Drive revision history) where you can 'time travel' through s…
It is painful that most desktop apps never even got branching undo/redo.