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In fact, the average person in Silicon Valley is as clueless as you are about Steve Jobs and would agree he was merely a good salesperson. But people that know what it takes to bui…

The fools are the people who express more hatred for Steve Jobs than cigarette, oil, and pharma CEOs that irreparably injury and kill millions of humans simple because of his obnox…

Woz in this case was acting as a subcontractor, doing a one-off favor for a friend. This was before they became partners when creating Apple.

Things are always more complicated than this... As a rule, Apple gave stock to employees prior to the IPO, many of whom got rich. But some employees weren't eligible according to t…

Steve Jobs gave Woz half of the base amount, which is what Woz agreed to. Jobs withheld the fact that he was going to receive a bonus on top of the base amount, and did not share a…

Steve Jobs was a superficial asshole but was fundamentally a good and ethical person. There's only one major ethical mistake documented in his entire life (being an absentee father…

Woz was a great engineer. He was years ahead of any other engineer on the planet in terms of building awesome PC designs. Millions of the computers he designed and programmed were …

> Believe the hype. I'd rather believe the test results. Is there a neutral third-party that has validated S3's durability/integrity/consistency? Something as rigorous as Jepsen? I…

Update: seems like it was already ~2 months out of sync when Caesar went to Gaul, so this is basically incorrect?

Caesar procrastinated so hard he changed time itself! (This is funny, but I'd be interested to read a source on how true this is. Presumably there were priests that could take care…

It would be unsurprising to find that Oracle's MySQL cloud service is 1000x faster than AWS Aurora for some specific things, or maybe even entire classes of problems. It would be e…

That's a very misleading set of partial quotes to assemble in that order... Ellison wasn't confused about any of the technical topics around cloud computing. He was complaining abo…

I agree the DGXA100 is a "complete solution" because it's NVIDIA selling NVIDIA customized integrated/certified/tested/supported hardware and software. NVIDIA's advantage is that t…

I like George's style and wish him well. But I'm not optimistic about their chances of selling $15k servers that are $10k in parts (or whatever the exact numbers are). It's just to…

In the great tradition of correcting someone only to be corrected ;-) > ... strictly monotonic growth ... Their growth is hardly "strictly monotonic" since their growth can fluctua…

> Because a test that doesn't test "what happens when the enemy knows the weaknesses" is not a test. Sure it is, if the opponent can't deploy effective counter-measures. It doesn't…

> Show me a serious battle in Italy or a battle in Rome that resulted in serious destruction as a result of Caesar's civil war. The people fighting in Spain, Greece, and Africa wer…

> The Roman Republic was dead when Caesar won the civil war The Republic had been in trouble for a long time. IMHO it officially died as soon as the First Triumvirate was created. …

> Julius Caesar's civil war with Pompey was neither long nor protracted... Compared to what? It was nearly two years just for the portion with Pompey. > .. and never actually invol…

> The difference seems to be that Tesla was 5-10 years ahead on everything... This is pretty much the definition of a great tech product: it's ahead of anything else by N years. Wh…

Yes, the ledger is public, but good luck identifying which transfers are bribes paid to informants within your government. This is same problem any foreign government would have.

> ...a black ops funding scheme... More specifically, a scheme to enable transferring funds in/out of foreign countries to securely bribe informants and supply agents with money. I…