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Re:Bloxels – Build Your Own Video Games by tomc1985 on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:03PM (#16293264)
Three-year-olds can purportedly open Youtube, find their favorite channel, and naivgate to a video without any prior instruction.

I think on HN a little while ago there was this study posted about how tribe of natives was given a box of tablets (with no prior exposure to them) and within a month were already hacking android.

These silly little abstractions are not needed and, indeed, are patronizing. More turds sticking their hands out for money.

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Re:Bloxels – Build Your Own Video Games by thaumasiotes on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:35PM (#16293986)
> Three-year-olds can purportedly open Youtube, find their favorite channel, and naivgate to a video without any prior instruction.

This doesn't make a lot of sense. Without prior experience with Youtube, how would they have a favorite channel?

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Re:Bloxels – Build Your Own Video Games by tomc1985 on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:50PM (#16294098)
Or any channel that appeals to them. Why get caught up on semantics?

Lots of things do not make sense when it comes to children.

I was hacking config.sys to get DOOM to run on a RAM-constrained 386, before I even knew how to read. Somehow I was successful...

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