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Excel Basic proje yöneticisinin Bill Gates ile inceleme toplantısı
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html

Ama nasıl patron:

• “… to keep an accurate count of how many times Bill said the f… word”
• “how strange it was that he had two legs, two arms almost exactly like a regular human being.”
• “Bill Gates was amazingly technical.He understood Variants, and COM objects…..”
• “he just wants to make sure you’ve got it under control”

Google programcısından “içeriden bilgiler”
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-06-15-n22.html

• ” they assume that programmers can manage their own time”
• “abusing logins is a fireable offense”
• “if engineers need something special from the IT teams, it tends to get done”
• “there’s a strong undercurrent of ’give the coders the tools they want and get the hell out of the way’”