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Re: [Poll] Computing favorities

From	Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: [Poll] Computing favorities
Date	2015-08-27 21:31 +0000
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On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:16:10 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote:

> "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:mrlgg7$748$1@dont-email.me...
>>
>> "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> wrote in message
>> news:mrg0er$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
>>
>>
> And Pierre de Fermat, Archimedes, and the Bernoulli brothers.  All
> people are math people, even if they don't realize it.

Andrew Wiles. Who became an FRS years before possibly his greatest 
achievement.

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Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-21 17:02 -0400
  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-22 00:40 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 15:54 -0500
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:28 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-26 13:44 -0700
  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-21 23:37 -0400
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-22 08:28 +0000
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 19:28 +1000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-22 08:28 +0000
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-22 09:25 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-22 12:13 +0000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-22 08:29 -0700
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-22 14:16 -0400
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-22 13:16 -0700
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 08:57 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 05:36 +1000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 08:55 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-25 15:09 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:24 -0400
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-25 13:36 -0700
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-25 20:40 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 02:07 -0400
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-31 20:31 -0400
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 18:04 -0700
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-09-03 16:20 -0400
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-25 16:01 -0700
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 02:04 -0400
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-31 20:23 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-25 20:34 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:29 -0500
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2015-08-23 00:01 +0000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-22 23:22 -0400
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-23 07:04 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-23 10:47 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 09:29 -0400
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 16:04 -0500
          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
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities lawrence@cluon.com - 2015-08-23 01:01 +0200
      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
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 08:59 +1000

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