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Are you the Alan Kay. Is there any way we can verify this is you? The HN user account seems to have a very low "karma" rating, so one can't help but be more sus
by hannofcart 8y ago
Are you the Alan Kay. Is there any way we can verify this is you? The HN user account seems to have a very low "karma" rating, so one can't help but be more suspicious.
- filoeleven 8y agoIt’s a new account created yesterday. Alan Kay did an AMA here a while back+ with the username “alankay1” and occasionally posted elsewhere. That account’s last post was 7 months ago. Given that user “Alan-1”s style and content is similar, it seems likely that he created a new account after half a year away from HN. If you want verification, maybe you can convince him to do another AMA =) I’m still thinking about his more cryptic answers from the last one, which is well worth a read. I think that was before Dynamicland existed, but I may be off. + https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851
- alankay 8y agoI'm the "computing Alan Kay" from the ARPA/Parc research community (there's a clarinettist, a judge, a wrestler, etc.) I did create a new account for these replies (I used my old ARPA login name).
- hannofcart 8y agoIt's really cool that you weigh in on discussions on HN. Or I suppose it feels like that to me primarily because I grew up reading your quotes in info text boxes in programming texts. And it's cool to have that person responding to comments.