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Re:My Favorite Books of 2016 by gwern on Monday December 05, 2016 @08:25PM (#13111502)
Possibly! https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/10/bill-gates-first-r...

> My first job—other than being a page in Congress, which isn’t a real job—was doing a computer-software project for Bonneville Power Administration, which is a quasi-governmental entity that controls the power grid in the Northwest. We were computerizing the power grid. And the company that BPA had contracted with, TRW, was behind, so the people there scoured the country to see who really knew how to do a certain type of programming, and they found me, because I was sort of infamous as a boy wonder of a certain type of programming.

Re:My Favorite Books of 2016 by throwaway7645 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @07:08AM (#13113982)
I've meet plenty of engineers at BPA. They do everything from generation, transmission, distribution, SCADA, AGC, and monitoring Hydro dams alongside the army corps. I'm really curious what he was doing, but I'm guessing he did a little bit in a very narrow section. I flipped through this book recently and wasn't very impressed to be honest.
Re:My Favorite Books of 2016 by awongh on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @05:36AM (#13113628)
I wonder which type of programming he's referring to!