Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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As someone who had to fix MBASIC for the HP2101 when Gates admitted
that the product was broken but that they weren't selling enough of
that version for them to fix it, I would not call him either an elite
programmer or a good customer service guy either.
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I can't speak about Zuckerberg as I never had to fix his code.
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Ahh... so you met him? What was it like?

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Never face to face, just over the telephone too many times where I was
told that everything was someone else's fault, that user-defined functions
in BASIC were superfluous and it didn't matter if they didn't work right,
and that stack machines had no future.  (He was in fact right about the
last one unfortunately.)
--scott
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