Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video]

Re:Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video] by brudgers on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @08:18AM (#10002859)

Kay draws a distinction between news and new. A new JavaScript framework is news...a person can explain the idea in 5 minutes or so because it is a normal incremental change. It's incremental because it's projecting normal as the future. Evaluating JavaScript frameworks is exhausting because the differences are mostly mundane, not world wide web versus gopher.

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Re:Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video] by random_2azkXJ on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @09:23AM (#10003195)

So the difference between "new" and "news" is the difference in the perceived scope? Is this what you've got from Alan Kay's philosophy?

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Re:Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video] by e12e on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @11:02AM (#10003799)

Its the difference between looking at something from a different angle and looking at it from space. It's much harder to go to space [than] to turn your head (well, was much harder before anyone did it - now its easy).

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Re:Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video] by random_2azkXJ on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @11:04AM (#10003826)

Yeah, that's what I thought too!

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Re:Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video] by loup-vaillant on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @10:13AM (#10003476)

I think it's about inferential distance. "News" is only 1 or 2 inferential steps from common knowledge. "New" is several step removed, and as such look alien, crazy, or pointless.

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Re:Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video] by brudgers on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @11:04AM (#10003828)

No and of course not.

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