Re:The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008)
by justin66 on Sunday February 26, 2017 @10:19PM
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Alan Kay takes part in discussion here occasionally. He seems like a pretty easygoing guy (but you might want to reign it in a bit) so you could probably just email him...
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Re:The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008)
by _yosefk on Monday February 27, 2017 @02:24AM
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Alan Kay likes to fail at least 90÷ of the time (shows you aim high enough) and says the industry is too dumb to digest good ideas. I like to succeed at least 90÷ of the time so that the dumb industry keeps employing me. I'm afraid we have irreconcilable differences. (And, this is me reigning in A LOT right here. Don't get me started...)
90÷
To be clear, you mean 90%, correct? If so, the ÷ symbol (which I just learned is called an obelus) is typically used for division—I've never seen it used to mean percent. Is this a locale difference? A keyboard issue? I've seen that Android users will sometimes mistype ℅ for % due to their proximity on a certain keyboard, for example.