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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
by tomc1985 9y ago
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.
- thaumasiotes 9y ago> 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?
- tomc1985 9y agoOr 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...