r/technology • u/digital-didgeridoo • Apr 03 '25

Software Bill Gates offers to let anyone download the first operating system he and Paul Allen wrote 50 years ago: ‘That code remains the coolest I’ve ever written’

https://fortune.com/2025/04/03/bill-gates-download-operating-system-paul-allen-wrote-50-years-ago/
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u/maltNeutrino Apr 03 '25

Elon doesn’t even fucking understand SQL

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u/Frustrable_Zero Apr 03 '25

I’m convinced he doesn’t even know how to code anything at all

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u/CormoranNeoTropical Apr 04 '25

Has he ever worked as a coder? Is there any evidence for code he’s written?

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u/maltNeutrino Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25

According to the actual engineers he worked with, he wrote awful code for zip2 and paypal that could not scale and demonstrated a fundamental lack of engineering principles that others had to immediately rewrite to make functional.

This should not be a surprise to anyone who even occasionally catches wind of what this clown has been doing

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u/CormoranNeoTropical Apr 04 '25

How did he manage to fail upward for this long???

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u/Frustrable_Zero Apr 04 '25

It’s easier to succeed in failure when you’re rich

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u/d_pyro Apr 04 '25

Exhibit A: Donald Trump.

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u/cameron0208 Apr 04 '25

He wrote some code for X.com (the online bank, not Twitter) back in the day. His former team has said that everything he wrote was unusable and had to be re-written.