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Re: [Poll] Computing favorities

From	Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: [Poll] Computing favorities
Date	2015-08-26 23:41 +0000
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 19:03:13 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:

> "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> wrote in message
> news:mrg0er$pfc$1@dont-email.me...
>> "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:mr9bre11opi@news3.newsguy.com...
>>> On 2015-08-22, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There was a recent story about this sort of thing, and it was about
>>>> people like the guy who started Yahoo and the guy who started
>>>> facebook, rather than people who had done work at a lower stratum,
>>>> but which was much more important because being at a lower level.
>>>
>>> Hear, hear.  I have much more admiration for Jon Postel than Mark
>>> Zuckerberg.
>>>
>>>
>> And we must remember Isaac Newton and Leonard Euler.  The flashy "new
>> people" are making boatloads of money on things based on so many others
>> who did fundamental work that is the foundation of the flashy folks'
>> work.
> 
>     I very much like Newton and Euler. And don't foget Euclid, Carl
>     Gauss,
> Rene Decartes. If math is your thing :p
> 
> Bill

And Godel, Escher and Bach .-)

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  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2015-08-21 15:10 +0100
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-21 09:20 -0700
  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-21 16:27 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-21 17:02 -0400
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                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 08:55 +0000
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              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2015-08-23 00:01 +0000
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              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 08:54 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-23 15:22 -0400
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 17:23 -0400
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 21:25 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 19:12 -0400
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-24 10:24 +0200
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-24 05:24 +0000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-22 14:10 -0400
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          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-22 16:48 -0700
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 15:58 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-25 06:52 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-25 12:09 +0100
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:14 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-26 04:03 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-08-26 21:56 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-26 19:03 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-26 23:41 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Mike Causer <m.r.causer@goglemail.com> - 2015-08-27 20:00 +0100
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-27 16:16 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 21:31 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-28 13:20 -0700
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-28 15:39 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-28 20:51 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-28 22:53 -0700
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