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		dangoor on Jan 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can Simplicity Scale? (2012) I just watched Alan Kay's talk about the same research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY I'm happy to see this blog post today because it saves me from writing the same thing. Prototypes can be beautifully simple in ways that systems with a bunch of customers and a long legacy often can't...

gavinpc on Jan 10, 2015 [–]

I transcribed a part of that talk for another thread, where he mentions the 10KLOC system from Parc:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860680

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