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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as
 a Smear
Date: 31 Oct 2024 22:13:42 -0000
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I can't speak about Zuckerberg as I never had to fix his code.
>>
>
>Ahh... so you met him? What was it like?

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
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."