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The tone of the article comes off as character assassination, so there's likely to be suits regardless of merit either way. Beyond that, I can't see how this i
by midas007 12y ago
The tone of the article comes off as character assassination, so there's likely to be suits regardless of merit either way.
Beyond that, I can't see how this is anything different than most any company: the boss has some grand vision and hands-on people make the hand-waiving into enough of an economic reality to keep said the company afloat. Moller has been promising flying cars since I could read Popular Mechanics. We need more crazy, enthusiastic fools to keep trying.
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- swombat 12y agoYou're missing sarcasm tags there. I hope.
- mpk 12y agoUh, Gates not a programmer? You might want to check your history. By all accounts he is, or was, an excellent programmer who definitely got his hands dirty. [edit add refs] Joel's Bill interview - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html Pancake problem - http://archive.today/20120916031916/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92236781 http://archive.today/20120916031916/http://www.npr.org/templ...