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Bill Joy, an Uncommon card
William Nelson Joy is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 109
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 60,000
Power 109 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Bill Joy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Bill Joy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
He also wrote the ____ essay "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us", in which he expressed deep concerns over the development of modern technologies.
Answer
2000s. He also wrote the 2000 essay "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us", in which he expressed deep concerns over the development of modern technologies. From the Bill Joy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Yellapragada Subbarow. Yellapragada Subbarow 73 · Loss function 66 · Bill Joy 63 · Meat pie 57 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003.
- He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while being a graduate student at Berkeley, and he is the original author of the vi text editor.
- He also wrote the 2000 essay "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us", in which he expressed deep concerns over the development of modern technologies.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bill Joy article was read about 60,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Bill Joy
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- Meat pieUncommon · Society · ATK 57 DEF 52
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Bill Joy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was SqueakBox at English Wikipedia ., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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