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Hitler, mao and stalin can all go jump as far as I'm concerned. I'm sure they weren't pure evil either but sometimes people deserve the label.
In what universe is Steve Jobs in the same category as dictators who killed tens of millions of people?
The category being human.
It's a habit of the internet diaspora to label a person either good or bad; binary, with no wiggle room to model the complexity of psychology. Steve, like any other human, is a shade of grey. He did some awful things and some great ones. That's that. It neither makes him a monster nor a saint. It makes him a... Human.
That's why binary is a good thing.
I have never resolved my conflict between a Christian love for my fellow human and being very fast to lose my temper with strangers. I wish I could swing to the former and away from the latter. I feel it is rooted in a spidey-sense for detecting when people around me lack humility or competence. I am completely useless at so many things, I am self aware of this, and while I want to get better I am realistic about it…
The irony of always being the person you would lose your temper at.
> I am realistic about it never being likely to happen
That's not realistic. You can change that. It takes effort.
Unless you mean you are realistic that you will never put in the honest effort to change that.
Edit: This sounds harsh, but I'm being serious.
After reading this a couple of times I think this part stands out: > When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive. A very strong and independent character came to realize we all need each other to survive. A good reminder to stay humble.
Lol most ppl figure this out pretty quickly especially the smart ones
It sounds like a valid atheist manifesto.
Ultra rich people don't need religion. Religion is for the people in need.
It sounds like a valid atheist manifesto.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
(and definitely not religious flamewar tangents, which this already crosses into)
Our industry -- probably more than any other -- attracted more than its fair share of pontification, over-intellectualization and frankly, narcissism. A sense of the over-importance of everything we're doing, which is really just about using ever more complicated computing tools to make money faster and faster and faster.
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I'd suggest reading the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. Humans are complex creatures and a distilled one sentence summation rarely does us justice.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: this has been a problem for quite a while, including re said $celebrity:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29164801 (Nov 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25994615 (Feb 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25515179 (Dec 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24501254 (Sept 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19510410 (March 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14933521 (Aug 2017)
I don't want to ban you because you also post good comments. Please fix this so we don't have to.
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Damn? Not only all of that, but he also seemed to piss in your coffee this morning.
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IBM was a household name in the 80s. I’m not sure which era you’re talking about, though.
The Apple II came out in 1977. The IBM PC in 1981. Until the PC, IBM might have been known by people but nobody had an IBM at home.