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Fellow programmers marvel at what Fanning was able to accomplish when he moved into his uncle's office, a computer gaming company in seaside Hull, and set to work on Napster. It was the first major program Fanning had ever written. "One thing that sets Shawn or any really great programmer apart from mediocre ones is their focus," says Ali Aydar, a friend from Massachusetts who now works as a Unix programmer in Napster's Redwood City, Calif., offices. "Shawn is able to concentrate, and collaborate and appropriate if necessary. He's also able to handle criticism. Most alpha-geeks...
...That was his idea. And it was big and frightening and full of implications, and it filled him up, this 18-year-old college dropout sprawled on the floor in his uncle's office, in what used to be a restaurant, across the street from the breaking waves in Hull, Mass...
Meanwhile, there is another big idea he is dying to work out, another program he has been thinking about and tinkering with that, he says, could be bigger than Napster. What he is seeking to recapture, he will tell you, are those days back in Hull, when it was just Fanning and Napster. When there were no lawsuits and no one to answer to and he was left alone to work on this little program of his, this idea that he would launch into the world...
...thought of such punishment can make men quake. Take the '92 games in Barcelona, where Karelin dispatched two frightened challengers in the semis and finals without breaking a sweat. Both opponents obligingly rolled onto their back to avoid being lifted and airmailed. "They were so afraid of that," says Hull, "that they practically let themselves be pinned...
There's just one problem. "You can't beat him until you score on him," says Hull. "And Karelin's still not allowing anyone to score. Guys just can't get any position to move him." That's because, of all the Olympians in Sydney this month, Karelin is the closest to being both an immovable object and an irresistible force...