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Bill Gates' AMA (gist.io)
82 points by jrajav on Feb 12, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 21 comments



> No Content Found

> Quite flummoxed. Terribly sorry.

I assume that's not what I was supposed to see?



Someone had built a web app to show IAMAs better, but I can't remember the url, does anyone know it?



Cool to see that you guys remembered it from months ago. The Bill Gates IAmA is up there as well for those wondering....


It's there, but certainly not as complete as the above gist.



I hope that reddit comes up with a better interface for doing AMAs, too. I think that the interface for the interviewee is just what I see as the observer. Hitting re-fresh over and over again.

It'd be nice to see a real-time client of popular questions and chances for rebuttals. There'd only be one client in this case, everyone else would see what we do now.

Hopefully, this would make it easier for interviewees to answer more questions in an hour rather than the dozen or so I see now.


"Bill Gates Answers Almost Everything In Reddit AMA": http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/02/11/bill-gates-...


Can someone explain the part about cheap kids from the stork, please? I may have misunderstood that.


Someone asked him what stuff he likes which is cheap/free. His answer was kids, cheeseburgers and open courseware.

Someone asked him where he got the kids from, to which he answered the stork.

If you are not familiar, the stork is a common answer given to children when they ask where babies come from without telling them about sex. The children are told that babies are delivered by a stork, something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJfMv5oYa9k


I see, thank you. I wasn't familiar with this expression, but it's more the mention of 'cheap kids' that I found awkward. I guess it's just me.


It's just a joke, reddit humour is a little bizarre.


Despite what 1st world countries say about kids being expensive, poor people generally have a lot of kids and having a new kid is as cheap and easy as having sex. One of the things Bill mentions is that as health improves (which is correlated with increased wealth), families have less kids.


Did you generate this automatically or did manually?. I've always wanted a better way to read AMA afterwards.


I did it manually. It would be easy to automate though, it was fairly methodical - Go through his posts in the AMA's timeframe, click through the Context link for each one and copy the immediate parent, make the whole parent a link to the same Context, copy his reply underneath. Put spacers between each Q/A and italicize the questions. Beyond that I just cleaned up a few tiny mistakes, linkified some raw URLs, and switched around just one of the questions from the chronological order (bet you can't guess which one).


There is a subreddit for that - http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/


Great! THANKS!


Personally, I found some of his responses to be really hilarious.


> What do people give you for your birthday, given that you can buy anything you want?

thisisbillgates:

> Free software. Just kidding.

> Books actually.


This was fun.




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