This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).
Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
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#2Hi Alan, how do you think that object-oriented programming and distributed computing will intertwine in the not-so-far future?
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#3Have you spent any time studying machine learning and how it might affect the fundamental ways we program computers? Any thoughts on how the tooling of machine learning (TensorFlow, ad hoc processes, etc) could be improved?
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#4What language do you think we should teach first to computing major students these days? What about non-major students?
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#5What is your one piece of advice to college students studying CS?
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#6What are your pet peeves within your field of work?
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#7Are you familiar with (the programming language) Go? What do you think of Go's approach to objects?
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#8Hi Alan,
Do you think we're yet at a position where we could catalog a set of "primitives" that are foundational to programming systems? (Where "systems" are fundamentally distributed and independent of software platform, programming language or hardware implementation)
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#9What are you working on now?
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#10What turning points in the history of computing (products that won in the marketplace, inventions that were ignored, technical decisions where the individual/company/committee could've explored a different alternative, etc.) do you wish had gone another way?