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Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today

1401 points alankay | 1 comments | 20 Jun 16 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).
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mej10 ◴[20 Jun 16 18:28 UTC] No.11940080[source]▶
What is your recommendation to someone wanting to get into the kind of research you do?
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1. alankay1 ◴[20 Jun 16 22:30 UTC] No.11942116[source]▶
"No one owes more to his research community than I do"

I lucked into the ARPA community 50 years ago (without even knowing that it existed).

A good start is to find people and places that are doing things you think are interesting ...