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Comment by pgbovine | Hacker News Reader

A secret of success: do only the things that you are capable of doing, like shaking hands and making deals.

I hardly think that this is all that zuckerberg is capable of doing, since he was the one who initially hacked on facebook (as well as some music sharing program in high school, iirc)

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"With a classmate, Adam D’Angelo (now a student at CalTech and still a close friend) Zuckerberg designed a program that learned a listener’s musical tastes, and then designed a playlist to match.

“It learned your listening patterns by figuring out how much you like each song at a given point and time, and which songs you tend to listen to around each other,” Zuckerberg says.

The friends created a plug-in for the popular MP3 player WinAmp and posted it up for free on the Internet."

"When Zuckerberg starts a programming project, all else takes a backseat. He doesn’t eat, doesn’t sleep, doesn’t talk to friends."

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/6/10/mark-e-zuckerber...

Further: "Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse and recruit Zuckerberg, but he decided to attend Harvard University instead."

The guy was almost recruited out of high school by Microsoft and AOL. If that isn't impressive, I don't know what is.

I think he meant: 'do the things that only you are capable of doing.'

I did, thank you. Updated.

It seems likely to me that the code of the Facebook of today is probably of a pretty different sort than that initial hacking. The problems are very different.

But it's also likely that Mr. Z. has kept up with those changes, on some level at least.

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