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Re:Marc Andreessen – Lessons, Predictions, and Recommendatio... by dave2000 on Saturday June 04, 2016 @12:52PM (#11836968)
I've never heard of him but I do know that there's been noone at any point in history who has been any good at predicting the future, even the very near future, so you can take anything he/anyone says with a large pinch of salt. Bill Gates wrote a book which barely mentioned the internet right as it was happening!
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Re:Marc Andreessen – Lessons, Predictions, and Recommendatio... by rorykoehler on Saturday June 04, 2016 @01:50PM (#11837176)
Ray Kurzweil has done a fairly decent job of predicting the future and judging by some of the insights attributed to Tesla he also foresaw much of what we call life today.
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Re:Marc Andreessen – Lessons, Predictions, and Recommendatio... by pessimizer on Saturday June 04, 2016 @01:24PM (#11837073)
Bill Gates is another person with extremely limited technical achievements who happened to be in the right place at the right time, with the right connections.
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Re:Marc Andreessen – Lessons, Predictions, and Recommendatio... by api on Saturday June 04, 2016 @02:04PM (#11837251)
Gates was a real programmer. He wrote a number of early BASIC interpreters for early PCs in assembler, which was not easy and not a thing many could do. His story has a good bit of luck as a factor but so does anyone's.
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Re:Marc Andreessen – Lessons, Predictions, and Recommendatio... by vram22 on Saturday June 04, 2016 @05:33PM (#11838183)
See book The New Magicians about early MS days. Le Nouveaux Magiciens in French original version, IIRC.
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Re:Marc Andreessen – Lessons, Predictions, and Recommendatio... by jchonphoenix on Saturday June 04, 2016 @02:55PM (#11837493)
Gates proved new bounds for Pancake sorting as a freshman @ Harvard. He famously published with Papadimitrou. Gates is a better computer scientist than 90% of your rockstars at Google.
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Re:Marc Andreessen – Lessons, Predictions, and Recommendatio... by xviia on Saturday June 04, 2016 @05:19PM (#11838099)
Strange how someone can make the right decision in the right place at the right time over and over and over...

Real lucky, I say!!

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