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Who Wants To Be a Billionaire Coder?
theodp writes "Computerworld reports that 60-year-old billionaire John Sall still enjoys cranking out code as the chief architect of JMP ('John's Macintosh Project'), the less-profitable-but-more-fun software from SAS that's used primarily by research scientists, engineers, and Six Sigma manufacturing types. 'It's always been my job to be a statistical software developer,' explains SAS co-founder Sall. So if you didn't have to work — and had more money than George Lucas and Steven Spielberg — would you be like Sall and continue to program? And if so, what type of projects would you work on?"
No Jail For Pot
I feel you are deliberately misinterpreting the vision in my head: of an eternal glorious thing that could code people, Like many slashdotters I'm not.
Say what Hamlet?
A Billion super lotto scratchers and the important question is "To code or not to code?"
"Is there a pulse?" Great Dork from York!
Big blue balls for wee willy winky's tiny slinky? It comes to this?
Over achievers? Or just under developed?
No wonder they have so little...time...on their hands...
"Alas poor, (your dick) I knew him swell!"
Australia is not an island. It is about the same size as the US - Alaska. It is huge.
I know this is fun and all. but anybody who has that kind of money, and doesn't help people on the 3rd world nations is complete scum. I don't subscribe to the theory that is is their money, they can do what they want. We live in a society, it is not ok for me to walk down the street punching people in the face, nor is it ok to have this kind of wealth and not help people.