Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing
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Re: Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing
#2These notion articles are quite nice imo.
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#3What a fascinating interview, I thought it was going to be all about tech but seems like Alan Kay knows a thing or two about political science as well.
Re: Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing
#4These notion articles are quite nice imo.
I adore notion and will unironically shill it for them at any appropriate moment.
so, er, yeah. GET NOTION.
Re: Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing
#5These notion articles are quite nice imo.
I adore notion and will unironically shill it for them at any appropriate moment. so, er, yeah. GET NOTION.
I enjoyed notion but stopped using it mainly due to the bad offline functionality (and occasionally getting randomly logged out).
Has this been improved yet? (Desktop|IOS App)
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
I adore notion and will unironically shill it for them at any appropriate moment. so, er, yeah. GET NOTION.
I enjoyed notion but stopped using it mainly due to the bad offline functionality (and occasionally getting randomly logged out). Has this been improved yet? (Desktop|IOS App)
No, offline is still almost non-existent.
Re: Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing
#7These notion articles are quite nice imo.
It's also an amazing hiring ad. Apart from just being a cool and interesting product, stuff like this convinces me that the notion people have their head in the right place. Unfortunately I can't work in the states or I would've applied to them already.
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#9Such a great interview! Or rather, pontification:
> See, what I'm doing here is I'm not conversing. I really can't converse very well at my age because I've lost my patience. So, what I do is pontificate, which is the same as giving you something like it's written.
> This is why experienced programmers have big multiple screens. They're working on something where the result is going to be fit on one screen, but you have to have all this other stuff, it's like when you make an arch; it's not just piling up the bricks, you have to put this whole scaffolding up. You have to hold everything together until you get the keystone in place. And virtually all of the productivity tools that I've seen, I'll just say, "all" because I haven't seen all of them, but the ones I have seen, they just completely don't understand this at all. They're all about this idea, which most programmers have that's wrong, is that you're going to write the program the right way. Nothing's going to be wrong. The whole idea is to make a fucking mess. And if you look at the way Disney artists do things, the whole thing is messy. This is something anybody in the arts knows completely about, and hardly anybody in computing knows anything about. But in fact, it's a key factor in building a good interactive development environment.
> We were a floor culture at PARC so we not only had the bean bags instead of chairs. Why bean bags? Well, you can't leap to your feet to denounce somebody from a bean bag.
This seemed an odd error: when Alan says (I presume) Feynman, the text has "Feinman" and links to a Richard Feinman.
Re: Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing
#10These notion articles are quite nice imo.
I adore notion and will unironically shill it for them at any appropriate moment. so, er, yeah. GET NOTION.
I don't get how people can use notion for personal info or basically anything else if you are not forced to use it at work.
Not even considering that your most personal information (journal, health log etc.) you don't share anywhere else twitter, facebook is stored in plaintext somewhere and can be used however they want according to their privacy policy which some nothing-to-hide folks might ok with but that everything you have written can go poof any second is nuts IMHO.