SOC202H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter GLAD: Bill Joy, Meritocracy
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Bill joy programmed the unix software that was used for coding macbook"s. He later created java, and his legend grew even further. Here was a world that was the purest of meritocracies. Computer programming didn"t operate as an old-boy network, where you got ahead because of money or connections. It was a wide-open field in which all participants were judged solely on their talent and their accomplishments. It was a world where the best men won, and. Joy was clearly one of those best men. Ericsson studied the amateurs that never practiced more than about three hours a week over the course of their childhood, and by the age of twenty they had totaled two thousand hours of practice. The professionals, on the other hand, steadily increased their practice time every year, until by the age of twenty they, like the violinists, had reached ten thousand hours.
