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We tell stories of things that are noteworthy. We find this to be entertaining.
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
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#22It's interesting that they can just reassign an email alias to someone else without any approvals. Could this be a permissions oversight? Or could the person who designed the system thought that heck it's always permitted to reassign an email alias owned by the current user?
It was 1991. They were an up start tech company. It was a different time.
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#23That beats my similar anecdote.
At a high-profile place, I too used an automated IT thing to make a first-name email alias for myself, and there was a semi-famous person there with the same first name.
It played out much like this story: I started getting email for the VIP, so I told them, and switched it over to them. I don't recall them being as gracious as Steve Jobs that time. Then, the only other interaction I had with them was them during my time there, was them declining my request to participate in something. :)
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Hey, running into someone who is exceptional and having a fun story to tell about it is reasonable and doesn't deserve this negative energy. That time I ran into Larry Bird, or just missed having dinner with Douglas Adams, or the time I talked to Jonny Kim-- they're little markers of time in my existence. I know they're not gods, and I've done pretty cool things myself, but I'm still in awe of the cool stuff they've…
Kevin Nash and I peed next to one another in an airport bathroom one time.
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#25Honestly, kind of sad that Tim Cook’s reply was so generic. I don’t think I’m off base in saying this, and from personal experience, he is really not connected to the people at the company.
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Dude wrote a small anecdote on their blog and this is your response?
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#27If this kind of thing is up your alley, check out techemails.com
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#28It's interesting that they can just reassign an email alias to someone else without any approvals. Could this be a permissions oversight? Or could the person who designed the system thought that heck it's always permitted to reassign an email alias owned by the current user?
It was 1991. They were an up start tech company. It was a different time.
You could also register a domain for free by sending an email form to a bot. It was truly the wild frontier.
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#29I emailed Steve Jobs right after he came back to Apple and suggested they make a carry-able computer that could project the interface and keyboard input to any glass surface.
I'm not sure how a glass surface would work given how lasers interact with glass.
But this style of keyboard has been done in various forms as far back as '92. They're awful.
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#30Honestly, kind of sad that Tim Cook’s reply was so generic. I don’t think I’m off base in saying this, and from personal experience, he is really not connected to the people at the company.
The experience as CEO of a company with 10e2-10e3 headcount is a lot different than the experience with 10e4-10e6 headcount.