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Re:Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 by davnicwil on Friday March 24, 2023 @08:43PM (#35297762)
I think this is tautological - this is how it must always be, and I would guess has been the common view at any given point of time in history.

You can only properly assess and appreciate the impact sufficient to assign 'legend' status to an individual or institution retroactively, decades hence from the actions that elevated them there.

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Re:Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 by darknavi on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:32PM (#35298185)
Reminds me of this silly quote from The Office (US)

> I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them. > - Andy Bernard

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Re:Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 by flangola7 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:18AM (#35299325)
Fortunately we have that opportunity today
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Re:Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 by conroydave on Saturday March 25, 2023 @09:13AM (#35302314)
do you mind elaborating?
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Re:Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 by FrontierPsych on Monday March 27, 2023 @01:29PM (#35329592)
it's always the good ole days for someone.

it's always 5pm somewhere for someone.

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Re:Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 by davnicwil on Monday March 27, 2023 @02:37PM (#35330500)
"It's always the good ole days for someone" is a little phrase I'm going to try to remember and think of from time to time. Thank you for this :-)
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Re:Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 by chrisco255 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @09:30AM (#35302439)
Not at all. Moore himself has been recognized and celebrated for decades.

But many other such figures achieved 'legendary' status while they were very much alive and in their prime: Edison, Ford, Bell, Wright Bros, Disney, Carnegie, Einstein, Oppenheimer, etc.

Moore himself was a member of an elite crew and one of Shockley's (the inventor of the transistor) "Traitorous Eight" which spun out from their former mentor to join Fairchild Semiconductor before all of them spun out from that enterprise to found their own companies and in the process create Silicon Valley proper.

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