Guido van Rossum

that sort of contain little bits of code that respond directly to something you do, like pressing a button or a link or hovering even, has certainly not gone away.

And that those animations that were made painfully complicated with Flash

I mean, Flash was an innovation when it first came up, and when it was replaced by JavaScript equivalent stuff, it was a somewhat better way to do animations, but those animations are still there.

Not all of them, but sort of, again, there is an evolution, and so often with technology,

That the sort of the technology that was eventually thrown away or replaced was still essential to sort of get started.

There wouldn't be jet planes without propeller planes.

I bet you.

Yeah, what you learned, the skill you picked up learning ActionScript, was sort of, it was perhaps...

a super valuable skill at the time you picked it up, if you learned ActionScript early enough,

But that skill is no longer in demand.

That's why we start when we're young, right?

But that seems very true to me, that when you're young, you have your whole life ahead of you and you're allowed to make mistakes.

In fact, you should feel encouraged to do a bit of stupid stuff.

Try not to get yourself killed or seriously maimed, but try stuff that deviates from what everybody else is doing.

And like nine out of 10 times, you'll just learn why everybody else is not doing that or why everybody else is doing it some other way.

And one out of 10 times, you discover something that's better or that somehow works.

I mean, there are all sorts of crazy things that were invented by accident, by people trying stuff together.

Once you're married with kids, you're probably going to be a little more risk averse because now there's more at stake and you've already hopefully had some time where you were experimenting with crazy shit.

Well, only as far as that technology remains relevant.

Yes, yes.