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Bill Joy was short, gawky and sixteen years old.
What is the correct answer? Bill Joy was tall, gawky and sixteen years old.
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Bill Joy was a computer whiz.
What is the correct answer? Bill Joy was a math whiz.
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Schools like MIT and Caltech and the University of Washington would have recruited a student like Bill Joy.
What is the correct answer? Schools like MIT and Caltech and the University of Waterloo would have recruited a student like Bill Joy.
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Bill Joy received a perfect score on the math portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test because he said he had plenty of time to check it three times.
What is the correct answer. Bill Joy received a perfect score on the math portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test because he said he had plenty of time to check it three times.
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Bill Joy had plenty of time and money.
What is correct answer? Bill Joy had plenty of talent.
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In the early 1970’s, computers were the size of a room and could cost upwards of thousands of dollars.
What is the correct answer? In the early 1970’s, computers were the size of a room and could cost upwards of millions of dollars.
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In the early 1970’s computers were easy to access and did not cost must to rent time.
What is correct answer? In the early 1970’s computers were hard to access and renting time cost a fortune.
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Programming was extraordinarily easy because computers could only handle one task at a time.
What is the correct answer? Programming was extraordinarily tedious because computers could only handle one task at a time.
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It was exceedingly easy for anyone to become a programming expert in the early days of computing.
What is the correct answer? It was exceedingly difficult for anyone to become a programming expert in the early days of computing.
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In the mid-1980’s computers were trained to handle hundreds of tasks at the same time.
What is correct answer? In the mid-1960’s computers were trained to handle hundreds of tasks at the same time.
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Michigan had enough computing power that several people could be programming simultaneously in the Computer Center.
What is the correct answer? Michigan had enough computing power that a hundred people could be programming simultaneously in the Computer Center.
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MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Dartmouth did have had a programming program that could operate simultaneously.
What is the correct answer? MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Dartmouth might have had a programming program that could operate simultaneously.
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Bill Joy arrived on the campus of Anne Arbor in the spring of 1971.
What is the correct answer? Bill Joy arrived on the campus of Anne Arbor in the fall of 1971.
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Bill was planning on majoring in math and science.
What is the correct answer? Bill was planning on majoring in math and engineering.
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Bill was hit by the programming “bug” in his sophomore year of college.
What is the correct answer? Bill was hit by the programming “bug” in his freshman year of college.
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Bill Joy had the opportunity to program in one of the six places in the world that offered simultaneously programming.
What is the correct answer? Bill Joy had the opportunity to program in one of the few places in the world that offered simultaneously programming.
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Bill said the difference between computing cards and time-sharing was like the difference in playing chess by mail and speed skating.
What is the correct answer. Bill said the difference between computing cards and time-sharing was like the difference in playing chess by mail and speed chess.
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Bill lived in the south campus, and the Computer Center was in the south campus.
What is the correct answer. Bill lived in the north campus, and the Computer Center was in the north campus.
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Even though the Computer Center was open twenty four hours a day, Bill Joy did not spend much time there.
What is the correct answer? Even though the Computer Center was open twenty four hours a day, Bill would spend the night there and walk home in the morning.
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Someone figured out how to program the computer to spend all the time they wanted on it, but it cost them a lot of money.
What is correct answer? Someone figured out how to program the computer to spend all the time they wanted on it and NOT get charged for the time.
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Bill Joy was genius, but he also had an opportunity to become an expert.
What is the correct answer? Bill Joy was a brilliant, but he also had an opportunity to become an expert.
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Bill Joy would spend eight to twelve hours a day programming in Michigan.
What is the correct answer? Bill Joy would spend eight to ten hours a day programming in Michigan.
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At Berkeley, I would stay up all night and watch you tube and do programming.
What is the correct answer? At Berkeley, I would stay up all night and watch old movies and do programming.
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Bill Joy figured that he had spent about twenty thousand hours of programming time to become the expert that he was.
What is the correct answer? Bill Joy figured that he had spent about ten thousand hours of programming time to become the expert that he was.
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The author believes that talent, plus opportunity, and twenty thousand hours of practice empowers people to be very successful.
What is the correct answer? The author believes that talent, plus opportunity, and ten thousand hours of practice empowers people to be very successful.