Not Alan Kay

Ever seen an iPad?

[Not Alan Kay @NotAlanKay]

When it was hard to do _anything_ whether good or bad, enough time was taken so that the result was usually good.

Now we can make things almost trivially, but most of the designs are trivial as well.

This is inverse vandalism: the making of things because you can.

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@geoffreylitt @ShriramKMurthi @yminsky @Gilad_Bracha @Bootstrapworld Hopefully we’re all trying to maximize Sistine Chapel ceilings per lifetime.

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@syntacrobat I’m proud of you, my son.

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@azlenelza Thank you for digitizing these old clips. Important historical context that most people have never bothered to learn.

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@gypsydave5 @a_sarentorbic @davefarley77 I never left

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@pvh @_adamwiggins_ Technology is anything invented after you were born.

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@jonathoda Glad to hear it. Informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

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@dennnis @JanPaul123 @JeffBezos I hope not!

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@abee2 Looking good

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@drscotthawley Thanks !

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@harshad_geek @vedang @worrydream Glad to hear it

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@viveka @JennaPrice @whereisdaz True, it is very hard to get the right type of funding.

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@modernserf Ouch!

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@otto_thorpe I do

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@mdbergmann Thanks!

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@otto_thorpe @OnlySams69 @GeorgieTarr Thanks

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@hellbox Thanks, we all need to try to escape the current context to do it.

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@SriniKadamati @AdamMarblestone @Jonathan_Blow Happy to help

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@Kishore65612592 It was easy because the GUI that I was creating was meant for children...

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I've often said I read 100s of books a year. This actually a slight underestimate. It's closer to about 100 books a week.

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@PhD_Frog Sorry about that, I had things to do! When can I come pick up my stuff?