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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bet Bill Gates won’t get into Harvard today. [/quote]

He went to the best private school in Seattle where he did [b]real computer programming[/b] before undergrad. I bet he gets in today.[/quote]
Are you suggesting Stanley didn't do real computer programming?[/quote]

PP here. No, different era and different tech.

At that time the only real computer access students could get was mainframe shared time at a major university like U Washington, using punch cards.

Home computers did not exist yet, unless you were a hobbyist who built your own like the founders of Apple.

Gates’ school bought a very expensive microcomputer that they let students use.

That was very unusual- he could get all the computer time he wanted, something even university students couldn’t do. He arrived at Harvard an expert programmer.

Today, obviously all students have easy access to commercially available hardware and software at home as well as creating their own work.

Stanley did substantial programming work with commercial appeal, that’s why Google hired him.[/quote]

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