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Andy Matuschak
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Sutherland’s ’63 Sketchpad thesis is a great counterpoint to my whining about troubles of doing both research & implementation. His final iteration (incl far-reaching abstraction insights) took ~1 year, including custom hardware! cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UC
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It's been quite difficult to do both good research work and good implementation work! The essay also elaborates some of the implications of this thread: twitter.com/andy_matuschak
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Andy Matuschak
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Blackwell and Rodden, who wrote the new preface for the thesis’s ’03 publication, note: "The struggles of developing custom hardware while also exploring far-reaching abstractions are also far removed from current research experiences.” Maybe that should be less frequently true!
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Andy Matuschak
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(though as I’ve mentioned before the struggles of developing custom software while also exploring far-reaching abstractions are more than I can confidently handle!)
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Andy Matuschak
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I have, but it was nice to be prompted to reread it! My Khan Academy experiences demonstrated viscerally Alan’s point about funders confusing responsiblity and control. It’s a primary motivation for my crowdfunding approach.
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