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There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

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Re: There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

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Post by nekooooo »

doanbactam wrote: post #3

It’s a stark contrast to today's mindset where we often just throw more resources at the problem. His obsession with elegance over features is something I try to keep in mind, even if it's harder in modern web dev. " Let's make it shorter and punchier. "Woz's floppy disk controller design is still the gold standard for doing in software what competitors needed a whole board of chips to do. That kind of obsession with…

modern engineering is launching an electron to-do list app that uses 2gb of ram.

Re: There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

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Post by LukeShu »

testfrequency wrote: post #9
knorker wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that you have to be more specific than "Scott" says a lot.

That’s more likely just you. Anyone who knows Apple knows who “Scott” is referring to. Scott Forstall.

Heh, I assumed he was referring to "Scott the Woz" Scott Wozniak, a vintage-gaming youtuber. I assumed that the GP took a more literal attack on "only one 'Woz'", hile you took a more symbolic "only one engineer of such quality". In the context of Apple, sure "Scott" is Scott Forstall, but that's not necessarily the context.

Re: There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

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Post by vasco »

testfrequency wrote: post #9
knorker wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that you have to be more specific than "Scott" says a lot.

That’s more likely just you. Anyone who knows Apple knows who “Scott” is referring to. Scott Forstall.

That's crazy because I assumed they were obviously talking about Apple's first CEO.

For "Scott Apple" search string, Google agrees with me and the forstall guy is just a secondary mention.

Re: There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

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Post by testfrequency »

LukeShu wrote: post #12
testfrequency wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s more likely just you. Anyone who knows Apple knows who “Scott” is referring to. Scott Forstall.

Heh, I assumed he was referring to "Scott the Woz" Scott Wozniak, a vintage-gaming youtuber. I assumed that the GP took a more literal attack on "only one 'Woz'", hile you took a more symbolic "only one engineer of such quality". In the context of Apple, sure "Scott" is Scott Forstall, but that's not necessarily the context.

I could be wrong then if that was their reference. I was in the mindset of foundational Apple leaders, not other Woz’s outside the Apple hemisphere.

EDIT: reading this again, now thinking you are right and they are just being snarky about the “one Woz in the world” existing.

Re: There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

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Post by testfrequency »

vasco wrote: post #13
testfrequency wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s more likely just you. Anyone who knows Apple knows who “Scott” is referring to. Scott Forstall.

That's crazy because I assumed they were obviously talking about Apple's first CEO. For "Scott Apple" search string, Google agrees with me and the forstall guy is just a secondary mention.

For me he will always be “Scotty”. “Scott” at Apple will almost always imply Scott Forstall.

Re: There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

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Post by knorker »

testfrequency wrote: post #9
knorker wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that you have to be more specific than "Scott" says a lot.

That’s more likely just you. Anyone who knows Apple knows who “Scott” is referring to. Scott Forstall.

Woz is not just "some guy at apple". He's a force in his own right to the point of being bigger than Apple in some ways.

"Woz" is googlable. His name doesn't need context. "Larry" could be Ellison or Page. "Scott" could be Forstall or Adams.

Who played Scott Forstall in the movie?

Anyway, other comments proven it's not just me, too.

Re: There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

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Post by postalcoder »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #2

Woz is by far the person in computing history for whom I have the most respect. Dude is an absolute legend , and from everything I have heard is humble and kind on top of his crazy skills. If I could get to the point where I had even 10% of his skill and generosity of spirit, I would consider myself to have done pretty well.

I can't think of a single person who embodies the spirit of this site more than Woz. dang could replace the guidelines with a picture of Woz and we'd all know what it meant.
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