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Re: Memories of Steve

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Post by lkd »

grogenaut wrote: post #30
salgernon wrote: post #7

Back in 1999 or 2000, shortly after Steve had rejiggered the cafeteria staff, I was walking back to my office in another building with an "afternoon doughnut" - that is, one that hadn't sold in the morning at the coffee place in the main lobby, and probably sold at a discount. I passed Steve in the hall and he glared at me as I walked with my doughnut. Steve was in great health in those days while I was pasty and obe…

and yet you're still alive and (I guess) obese... and he died of not paying attention to cancer. Donuts ftw I guess.

He paid attention, just the wrong kind of attention -- crackpot cuckoo crazy alternative medicine attention. If he had received the recommended surgery immediately upon the initial diagnosis, he very likely would still have been alive.

Re: Memories of Steve

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Post by lkd »

chris_wot wrote: post #58
beaner wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get it either and I have no idea why you're being downvoted.

I can explain. a. It was bought on-campus. b. If he stopped all donut services because of one guy who looked unhealthy, then it again shows how capricious he was. One person who looked a little unhealthy ate a donut on one occasion and he removed donuts from every single store on campus for every single person for no reason other than he didn't like to see someone who looked pasty and obese walking around eating a do…

As a counterpoint (and believe me, I take no pleasure in defending Jobs here) it would probably have been illegal to ban donut sales only to the obese.

Re: Memories of Steve

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Post by Tarang »

thejosh wrote: post #18
salgernon wrote: post #7

Back in 1999 or 2000, shortly after Steve had rejiggered the cafeteria staff, I was walking back to my office in another building with an "afternoon doughnut" - that is, one that hadn't sold in the morning at the coffee place in the main lobby, and probably sold at a discount. I passed Steve in the hall and he glared at me as I walked with my doughnut. Steve was in great health in those days while I was pasty and obe…

Do you think 14 years later is a safe time to admit it was you who causes the donuts to disappear?

I really had a great laugh at this, Thank you for that.

Re: Memories of Steve

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Post by [deleted] »

salgernon wrote: post #7

Back in 1999 or 2000, shortly after Steve had rejiggered the cafeteria staff, I was walking back to my office in another building with an "afternoon doughnut" - that is, one that hadn't sold in the morning at the coffee place in the main lobby, and probably sold at a discount. I passed Steve in the hall and he glared at me as I walked with my doughnut. Steve was in great health in those days while I was pasty and obe…

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Re: Memories of Steve

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Post by mmariani »

chris_wot wrote: post #66
general_failure wrote: post #6

It looks like some people like Steve are charismatic enough to get the complete devotion of very talented people. It's a great personality trait to have and pretty much guarantees success. We all know geniuses in our everyday life like Wozniak, Bob, cook. But how many of us can get these guys be terrified of us, make them change their lives for our visin and make them give us their complete attention... That's the be…

"But how many of us can get these guys be terrified of us, make them change their lives for our vision and make them give us their complete attention" I'll list a few: * Stalin * Pol Pot * Shoko Ashara * David Koresh

Did you struggle too much to come up with that list? You only missed Hitler by an inch.

Ad hominem attack on a dead man is so low I can't even describe it.

Sadly, this is HN. So long HN.

Re: Memories of Steve

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Post by crusso »

chris_wot wrote: post #58
beaner wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get it either and I have no idea why you're being downvoted.

I can explain. a. It was bought on-campus. b. If he stopped all donut services because of one guy who looked unhealthy, then it again shows how capricious he was. One person who looked a little unhealthy ate a donut on one occasion and he removed donuts from every single store on campus for every single person for no reason other than he didn't like to see someone who looked pasty and obese walking around eating a do…

Controlling, yeah, but that makes Steve a sociopath?

Is Michelle Obama a sociopath too?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/6/1m-kids-stop-...

Re: Memories of Steve

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Post by marknutter »

throwaway7548 wrote: post #8

According to Wozniak, Jobs told him that Atari gave them only $700 (instead of the offered $5,000), and that Wozniak's share was thus $350.[65] Wozniak did not learn about the actual bonus until ten years later, but said that if Jobs had told him about it and had said he needed the money, Wozniak would have given it to him.[66] --- End of story. Before continuing celebrating Jobs, ask yourself a question, do you want…

The freaking Atari anecdote. If there ever is a thread about Jobs on Hacker News where someone doesn't mention it I will shit my pants.

Re: Memories of Steve

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Post by coldtea »

chris_wot wrote: post #58
beaner wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get it either and I have no idea why you're being downvoted.

I can explain. a. It was bought on-campus. b. If he stopped all donut services because of one guy who looked unhealthy, then it again shows how capricious he was. One person who looked a little unhealthy ate a donut on one occasion and he removed donuts from every single store on campus for every single person for no reason other than he didn't like to see someone who looked pasty and obese walking around eating a do…

>Because that's the sort of guy Steve Jobs was. A sociopath.

Yes, god forbid someone takes our precious donuts away from us...

Re: Memories of Steve

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Post by snowwrestler »

bitL wrote: post #38
general_failure wrote: post #6

It looks like some people like Steve are charismatic enough to get the complete devotion of very talented people. It's a great personality trait to have and pretty much guarantees success. We all know geniuses in our everyday life like Wozniak, Bob, cook. But how many of us can get these guys be terrified of us, make them change their lives for our visin and make them give us their complete attention... That's the be…

It's probably common in technology area that due to Dunning-Kruger effect many super talented engineers have low self-esteem and real-life skills, and are attracted by "magical" personalities, forming narcissist-codependent pairs. I see it all around, it's sad, but unless engineers fix their broken "insides", it's going to happen. It's then pretty logical that the narcissistic part of the pair gets all the fame, spot…

Many engineers spend their lives struggling to do great work within seemingly arbitrary constraints on budget, timeline, vision, or internal politics. Part of the power of Steve Jobs was that he removed many of those constraints, but in return demanded a very high level of innovation and quality.
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