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CedarPointcp
07/15/23 6:57:04 PM
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successful as it is? or maybe it was just mostly luck ...etc...
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GranTurismo
07/15/23 7:03:12 PM
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hmm....not sure
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UndefeatedGOAT
07/15/23 7:05:39 PM
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Idk how to answer luck doesnt take away responsibility
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GranTurismo
07/15/23 7:18:12 PM
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UndefeatedGOAT posted...
Idk how to answer luck doesnt take away responsibility
it doesn't?
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SiO4
07/15/23 7:20:03 PM
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He was the right nerd at the right time.

Anyone who played with a 555 Timer would understand.
~In a good way.

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GranTurismo
07/15/23 7:21:06 PM
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SiO4 posted...
He was the right nerd at the right time.

Anyone who played with a 555 Timer would understand.
~In a good way.
555 timer? i don't undestand
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g7g7g7g7
07/15/23 7:24:51 PM
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IIRC Bills mom gave him the loan to buy DOS and was on the board of IBM and pushed for MS-DOS to be chosen as their OS. I could be wrong on the details but it sounds like Bill Gates mom is the person most responsible for his success.

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SiO4
07/15/23 7:25:31 PM
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GranTurismo posted...

555 timer? i don't undestand


It is a cool little IC, that costs nothing.
But you can do a lot with it.

It's kind of the beginning of learning about the advancement of circuitry.
I mean, once you know the basics.

~I miss old-school Radio Shack. V_V

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC

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willythemailboy
07/15/23 7:32:48 PM
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GranTurismo posted...
it doesn't?
Not entirely. You have to be capable of doing the task at all to be able to get lucky enough to get the one-in-a-million luck roll to go with it.

For example: Most people aren't capable of hitting a 517-yard drive at all and thus aren't capable of hitting the longest recorded hole in one. Calling it luck alone implies that literally anyone could do it as easily as buying a lottery ticket.

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flussence
07/15/23 7:35:49 PM
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Each of the people he strongarmed out of business to get ahead are at least as important as he was

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skullmagic2
07/15/23 7:36:10 PM
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You could even say MS was built on the work of developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers.

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flussence
07/15/23 7:40:15 PM
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mushroom mushroom

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doshindude
07/15/23 7:49:15 PM
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He was good for the conception of MS but MS was in really bad shape by the time he stepped down as CEO. Ballmer made the situation even worse (mediocre stock price for a decade).

It's only recently where Satya's pivot to cloud services has turned it around for them

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CedarPointcp
07/15/23 8:44:24 PM
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Bump
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StateofZen
07/15/23 8:47:59 PM
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He stole from Xerox and ripped of some other guy to make DOS

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GranTurismo
07/15/23 10:21:09 PM
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StateofZen posted...
He stole from Xerox and ripped of some other guy to make DOS
yeah i heard this as well. a lot of people , maybe most , don't know about this
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CedarPointcp
07/16/23 7:02:28 AM
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bumpis
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