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That being?
The being
Isn't he more like Zuckerberg?
I mean, he DID develop stuff, which Jobs didn't. He just didn't develop groundbreaking stuff, he just sold it better than his competitors.
Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day
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#42Im kind of unsure as to how to interpret this, but there appears to be no particular ordering just an influential cs person posted for each day of the month. Theres definitely pleanty of influencers missing from the current set, McCarthy, Hoare, Dijkstra, to name few. If this were my list, I wouldnt have Lovelace or Gates on it, but most of the others seem warrented enough (in my opinion of course) :)
hi. indeed it is just a list of persons in no particular ordering. The persons you name are of course on the list. Lovelace already visible the others will appear in the future. So every day one person is added. If you have other persons you want to see on the list you can submit person with a link in the footer of the page.
A small correction on Gates: he did not create BASIC. “The language BASIC was an acronym for Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was developed by Dartmouth mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas as a teaching tool for undergraduates.”[1]
The rest generally applies.
[1] http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventions/fl/The-Histor...
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Isn't he more like Zuckerberg? I mean, he DID develop stuff, which Jobs didn't. He just didn't develop groundbreaking stuff, he just sold it better than his competitors.
Hate windows, but windows 3.1 was ground breaking for the tiime and was primarily the reason why computers took off.
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Just curious but why not Lovelace or gates?
Well, Lovelace disputedly created the first program for the Babbage machine under Babbage's guidance. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_... ). Although, more difficult perhaps than morse code I wouldnt consider the first person to send morse code a "Giant" by merit of that act alone... And Gates well, thats too long of a story, but for me it boils down to the fact that I dont think he crea…
Babbage created the machine and he would not know how to run it? He would not know how to program it? The absurdity of this is astounding. Babbage was the first programmer.
There is a google talk about Babbage's machines and the speaker also talked about Ada at the 36 min mark -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5p_tBcrd0&feature=youtu.be...
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just curious but why not Lovelace or gates?
Well, Lovelace disputedly created the first program for the Babbage machine under Babbage's guidance. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_... ). Although, more difficult perhaps than morse code I wouldnt consider the first person to send morse code a "Giant" by merit of that act alone... And Gates well, thats too long of a story, but for me it boils down to the fact that I dont think he crea…
Agreed. Gates is a marketing genius. Put him in that hall of fame.
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#47To me, Bill Gates will always be what Steve Jobs is to so many.
It's widely under appreciated how much he championed there being a software industry at all. Most people thought software was just an aside that you threw in with the hardware. Software was also widely pirated and he fought for the notion that people should pay for software so that engineers could have a job building it.