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Eric O'BrienThen I sat down to write the Excel Basic spec, a huge document that grew to hundreds of pages
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Tom PurlI stumbled across this article when I was looking for something else on Joel's site. I read this years ago, and it's definitely one of my favorite business stories ever. And if you still believe that non-technical people can run technical organizations, then this is required reading.
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mptsk .Bill Gates was amazingly technical. He understood Variants, and COM objects, and IDispatch and why Automation is different than vtables and why this might lead to dual interfaces. He worried about date functions. He didn't meddle in software if he trusted
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era e"Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. 'It's ok! I have great advisors standing on the shore telling me what to do!' they say, and then fall off the board, again and
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W.W. WebsterJoel on Software; (a classic story; how shaggy is that dog?)
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Liang Bin HsuehWatching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf.
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My First BillG Review
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My First BillG Review
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Kore7Pretty funny first-hand account of meeting withh Bill in the early Microsoft days.[quote]In my BillG review meeting, the whole reporting hierarchy was there, along with their cousins, sisters, and aunts, and a person who came along from my team whose whol
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David CorkingHow Excel became bigger than Emacs. An anecdote about Bill Gates.
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I got them to add late binding, which became known as IDispatch, a.k.a. COM Automation, because the original design for Silver required a deep understanding of type systems that the kinds of people who program macros don't care about
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