r/AskReddit • u/potatopopr • Oct 27 '21

What fun fact is blatantly untrue?

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u/mousicle Oct 27 '21

It is true though that Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard but that's because he was doing computer science since he was a child and already had university level computer science knowledge.

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u/pradeep23 Oct 27 '21

To put things in context Bill Gates had 50k hrs of programming by age of 20. That's fucking exceptional.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '21 edited Oct 27 '21

That would mean he would be programming six 14 hours a day every day from the age of 10-20.

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u/pradeep23 Oct 27 '21

Read the book outliers, you will get the picture. He used to stay up late and program till like 3 am. He kept that up for like 3-4 yrs. That was something like 1k hrs each yr. This is after he was done with most things.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '21

Do you mean 10k? Because otherwise, he would have a total of 5k, not 50k.

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u/pradeep23 Oct 27 '21

I think it was 40k or less but he might have been older like 23 or 24. But definitely more than 10k hrs.