How Hard Could it Be? Joel Spolsky recalls what it was like to work for Bill Gates

Re:How Hard Could it Be? Joel Spolsky recalls what it was li... by marionogueira on Thursday June 26, 2008 @05:51PM (#229156)

Hum... tell that to the non-programmer Steve Jobs (who doesn´t have a MBA either).

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Re:How Hard Could it Be? Joel Spolsky recalls what it was li... by DaniFong on Thursday June 26, 2008 @06:31PM (#229201)

Steve is actually quite technical, he just wasn't a world-class prodigy in engineering like Woz was.

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Re:How Hard Could it Be? Joel Spolsky recalls what it was li... by giardini on Friday June 27, 2008 @12:08AM (#229424)

Well, it _does_ help to have sociopathic tendencies. BTW did he ever acknowledge that the child he fathered was indeed his daughter? From the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" I got the idea he wouldn't even _acknowledge_ his child for years.

Must be great to have a dad like that.

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Re:How Hard Could it Be? Joel Spolsky recalls what it was li... by Zev on Friday June 27, 2008 @01:33AM (#229484)

I'd hope that you dont base your entire perception of a person on a movie.

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Re:How Hard Could it Be? Joel Spolsky recalls what it was li... by dreish on Friday June 27, 2008 @12:30PM (#229879)

That's a great case-in-point. He spent nearly his whole adult life running Apple, and he knows that company's business inside and out. He hired a Pepsi guy to take over as CEO, and things went poorly.

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