In article <Fkggj.47054$vt2.6409@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * DFS fired off this tart reply:
>
> > Jerry McBride wrote:
> >> Put any of them into a real world situation... like a
> >> real 9 to 5 job and they would fail miserably.
> >
> > Asking them to work 9 to 5 would be an insult. Gates works much more than
> > that - or at least he used to.
>
> Indeed. I read once where he was found on the floor, asleep, mumbling
> about some problem he'd been working on.
>
> He used to be a real hacker.
Sounds like an incident recounted in that unauthorized biography that
those Seattle newspaper reporters wrote about him in the late '80s or
early '90s. It was late in the IBM PC project, and although Gates no
longer had time to write code, he had printouts of everything his
employees were writing for IBM, and would go over them, and mark bugs,
and make notes on how they could make the code more efficient, and
things like that.
Something was supposed to be delivered to an IBM guy Monday, who was
going to fly back to IBM with it, but they weren't done. It was going
to be done that night, so Gates told him to delay and pick it up Tuesday
morning. He got the listings that night, and spent all night going over
them to find bugs and suggest changes. When they got there in the
morning, he was on the floor, asleep, with marked listings all over the
floor.
The notion that any of these guys could not handle 9 to 5 is ridiculous.
They all handled 9 to 5, or much worse, to get to where they are today.
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--Tim Smith
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