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Bill Gates' AMA

82 points by jrajav 14y ago

hakaaaaak 14y ago
"Bill Gates Answers Almost Everything In Reddit AMA": http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/02/11/bill-gates-answers-almost-everything-in-reddit-ama/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/02/11/bill-gates-...
SparrowOS 14y ago
Routh Horwitz lets you design feedback gains. God says... 1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 2:1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. 2:2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel. 2:3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
danielpal 14y ago
Did you generate this automatically or did manually?. I've always wanted a better way to read AMA afterwards.
- dhawalhs 14y ago
  There is a subreddit for that - http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/ http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/
  - danielpal 14y ago
    Great! THANKS!
- jrajav 14y ago
  I did it manually. It would be easy to automate though, it was fairly methodical - Go through his posts in the AMA's timeframe, click through the Context link for each one and copy the immediate parent, make the whole parent a link to the same Context, copy his reply underneath. Put spacers between each Q/A and italicize the questions. Beyond that I just cleaned up a few tiny mistakes, linkified some raw URLs, and switched around just one of the questions from the chronological order (bet you can't guess which one).
StavrosK 14y ago
Someone had built a web app to show IAMAs better, but I can't remember the url, does anyone know it?
- Mithrandir 14y ago
  http://www.topiama.com http://www.topiama.com ? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4148415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4148415)
  - xpose2000 14y ago
    Cool to see that you guys remembered it from months ago. The Bill Gates IAmA is up there as well for those wondering....
    - anotherevan 14y ago
      It's there, but certainly not as complete as the above gist.
- madeofchalk 14y ago
  http://www.topiama.com/ http://www.topiama.com/
- sown 14y ago
  I hope that reddit comes up with a better interface for doing AMAs, too. I think that the interface for the interviewee is just what I see as the observer. Hitting re-fresh over and over again. It'd be nice to see a real-time client of popular questions and chances for rebuttals. There'd only be one client in this case, everyone else would see what we do now. Hopefully, this would make it easier for interviewees to answer more questions in an hour rather than the dozen or so I see now.
bluepanda_ 14y ago
Can someone explain the part about cheap kids from the stork, please? I may have misunderstood that.
- jiggy2011 14y ago
  Someone asked him what stuff he likes which is cheap/free. His answer was kids, cheeseburgers and open courseware. Someone asked him where he got the kids from, to which he answered the stork. If you are not familiar, the stork is a common answer given to children when they ask where babies come from without telling them about sex. The children are told that babies are delivered by a stork, something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJfMv5oYa9k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJfMv5oYa9k
  - bluepanda_ 14y ago
    I see, thank you. I wasn't familiar with this expression, but it's more the mention of 'cheap kids' that I found awkward. I guess it's just me.
    - jiggy2011 14y ago
      It's just a joke, reddit humour is a little bizarre.
    - Jach 14y ago
      Despite what 1st world countries say about kids being expensive, poor people generally have a lot of kids and having a new kid is as cheap and easy as having sex. One of the things Bill mentions is that as health improves (which is correlated with increased wealth), families have less kids.
- deleted 14y ago
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msrpotus 14y ago
> No Content Found > Quite flummoxed. Terribly sorry. I assume that's not what I was supposed to see?
- Mithrandir 14y ago
  https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4759466 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4759466
samstave 14y ago
Personally, I found some of his responses to be really hilarious.
- markdown 14y ago
  > What do people give you for your birthday, given that you can buy anything you want? thisisbillgates: > Free software. Just kidding. > Books actually.
nsxwolf 14y ago
This was fun.

82 points by jrajav 14y ago

"Bill Gates Answers Almost Everything In Reddit AMA": http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/02/11/bill-gates-answers-almost-everything-in-reddit-ama/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/02/11/bill-gates-...

SparrowOS 14y ago

Routh Horwitz lets you design feedback gains. God says... 1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 2:1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. 2:2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel. 2:3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.

danielpal 14y ago

Did you generate this automatically or did manually?. I've always wanted a better way to read AMA afterwards.

dhawalhs 14y ago
There is a subreddit for that - http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/ http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/
- danielpal 14y ago
  Great! THANKS!
jrajav 14y ago
I did it manually. It would be easy to automate though, it was fairly methodical - Go through his posts in the AMA's timeframe, click through the Context link for each one and copy the immediate parent, make the whole parent a link to the same Context, copy his reply underneath. Put spacers between each Q/A and italicize the questions. Beyond that I just cleaned up a few tiny mistakes, linkified some raw URLs, and switched around just one of the questions from the chronological order (bet you can't guess which one).

StavrosK 14y ago

Someone had built a web app to show IAMAs better, but I can't remember the url, does anyone know it?

Mithrandir 14y ago
http://www.topiama.com http://www.topiama.com ? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4148415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4148415)
- xpose2000 14y ago
  Cool to see that you guys remembered it from months ago. The Bill Gates IAmA is up there as well for those wondering....
  - anotherevan 14y ago
    It's there, but certainly not as complete as the above gist.
madeofchalk 14y ago
http://www.topiama.com/ http://www.topiama.com/
sown 14y ago
I hope that reddit comes up with a better interface for doing AMAs, too. I think that the interface for the interviewee is just what I see as the observer. Hitting re-fresh over and over again. It'd be nice to see a real-time client of popular questions and chances for rebuttals. There'd only be one client in this case, everyone else would see what we do now. Hopefully, this would make it easier for interviewees to answer more questions in an hour rather than the dozen or so I see now.

bluepanda_ 14y ago

Can someone explain the part about cheap kids from the stork, please? I may have misunderstood that.

jiggy2011 14y ago
Someone asked him what stuff he likes which is cheap/free. His answer was kids, cheeseburgers and open courseware. Someone asked him where he got the kids from, to which he answered the stork. If you are not familiar, the stork is a common answer given to children when they ask where babies come from without telling them about sex. The children are told that babies are delivered by a stork, something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJfMv5oYa9k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJfMv5oYa9k
- bluepanda_ 14y ago
  I see, thank you. I wasn't familiar with this expression, but it's more the mention of 'cheap kids' that I found awkward. I guess it's just me.
  - jiggy2011 14y ago
    It's just a joke, reddit humour is a little bizarre.
  - Jach 14y ago
    Despite what 1st world countries say about kids being expensive, poor people generally have a lot of kids and having a new kid is as cheap and easy as having sex. One of the things Bill mentions is that as health improves (which is correlated with increased wealth), families have less kids.
deleted 14y ago
[deleted]

msrpotus 14y ago

> No Content Found > Quite flummoxed. Terribly sorry. I assume that's not what I was supposed to see?

Mithrandir 14y ago
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4759466 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4759466

samstave 14y ago

Personally, I found some of his responses to be really hilarious.

markdown 14y ago
> What do people give you for your birthday, given that you can buy anything you want? thisisbillgates: > Free software. Just kidding. > Books actually.

nsxwolf 14y ago

This was fun.