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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2019 15:10:29 UTC Bernie

   • Henry Edward Hardy
   • Mark

   @hhardy01 @BarkMarnett I just re-read the old post "Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi". In retrospect, Ivan was quite spot-on.

   https://web.archive.org/web/20140818125621/http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2019 15:11:38 UTC Bernie

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     • Henry Edward Hardy
     • Mark

     @hhardy01 @BarkMarnett Yes, perhaps he was a sociopath, but perhaps he was burnt out harder than the rest of us, with acute OLPC PTSD.

     I met him years later in the Bay Area. He was at Apple and he had nothing negative to say about his coworkers; he was happy, and he had a puppy which he loved very much.

   • Henry Edward Hardy (hhardy01@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2019 15:40:36 UTC Henry Edward Hardy

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     • Mark

     @codewiz @BarkMarnett

     Well, I agree with a lot of Ivan's concerns in his diatribe.

     Having said that, his whole, construtivism has never been proven and all the trials failed. All I can say is, it worked for me. I had nothing but access to a DEC PDP8e. And the manuals. No instruction, no supervision. That's how I learned to program & be a system administrator when I was 14.

     Deployment was a hard problem. We hadn't 50,000 FTE for field deployments, we had at most, a total 23 FTE in all OLPC!

     Bernie repeated this.