And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYI realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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