Re:Reversing Sinclair's 1974 calculator hack (2013)
by specialist on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:15PM
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> We didn't need Sinclair to show us that was possible.
No. Nigel Searle, Sinclair's programming and math whiz, actually did it.
Steve Wozniak actually did it.
Archimedes actually did it.
Etc.
I'm not a big fan of Great Person narratives. And yet it's also true that some minds seem adept at finding shortcuts to previously seemingly intractable problems.
How many persons have the actual willingness to defy conventional wisdom, forging progress faster than the mortality rate of the old guard?
No. Nigel Searle, Sinclair's programming and math whiz, actually did it.
Steve Wozniak actually did it.
Archimedes actually did it.
Etc.
I'm not a big fan of Great Person narratives. And yet it's also true that some minds seem adept at finding shortcuts to previously seemingly intractable problems.
How many persons have the actual willingness to defy conventional wisdom, forging progress faster than the mortality rate of the old guard?