Software and management

“It was a good point. 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 the people who were working on it, but you couldn’t bullshit him for a minute because he was a programmer. A real, actual, programmer.”

Joel Spolsky’s Joel on Software has the essay from which I took the quote and Jeff Jarvis has reposted his Guardian essay on BuzzMachine.

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