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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite HN post? on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @01:27PM (#12499248)
Bret Victor: Inventing on Principle (vimeo.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3591298

Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851

Re:A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer on Friday April 10, 2015 @02:07PM (#9356058)
Project Amiga Juggler: http://meatfighter.com/juggler/

Step by step tutorial in Java.

Re:Secret Origin of SVG on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @09:47AM (#4505354)
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ is a kind of reference browser from the W3C. The release history lists the first SVG support in Amaya 4.0 from 10 November, 2000.
Re:R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chron... on Thursday June 07, 2012 @05:57PM (#4081572)
A long interview in Paris Review from 2010: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/the-art-of-fic...
Re:A conversation with Alan Kay (2004) on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @10:06AM (#3948602)
"Now we get around the efficiency stuff the same way Barton did on the B5000: by just saying, “Screw it, we’re going to execute this important stuff as directly as we possibly can.”

We’re not going to worry about whether we can compile it into a von Neumann computer or not, and we will make the microcode do whatever we need to get around these inefficiencies because a lot of the inefficiencies are just putting stuff on obsolete hardware architectures."

Re:My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination on Monday February 27, 2012 @06:27AM (#3638589)
awake: programming

tired: doing something else

Re:Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it on Thursday December 08, 2011 @04:14PM (#3331161)
"slate boards where disappearing gradually circa 1930": http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Schiefertafe...