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Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember

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Post by talldayo »

pipeline_peak wrote: post #118
talldayo wrote: post #117

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I'm sorry, I didn't realize your mouth was congenitally attached to Jobs' penis. Have you looked into surgery for getting it detached? I've heard there's quite a high chance of success if you don't resign yourself to failure and insist upon a fruit-based diet.

lmao…To the 12 year old boy who stole the phone of the person I’m replying to, would you please give it back to the original owner? Stay classy

Please, feel free to circle back and respond once your life amounts to something truly meaningful.

I'm looking forward to you spending the rest of your life wallowing in misery so you can "accomplish" less than your adversaries and die an even less-remembered figure than the one guy who played second-fiddle to Jobs.

This is what you want, right?

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Post by Jerrrrry »

taspeotis wrote: post #41
normie3000 wrote: post #25

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> No code I wrote five years ago is in production today. This is wild! How can you be so sure?

He's a JavaScript dev

My javascript may had been gutted, but my HTML and CSS live in Word documents across clipboards immortal.

Re: Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember

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Post by sharadov »

There will come a time in our lives towards the end when we most likely will be alone - some of us will be fortunate to have partners or close friends.

And when that time comes - the memories you made will be your sole company, so while you are healthy, go out and make those good memories.

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Post by p3rls »

foobar1962 wrote: post #3

> I decided that that life, for me, was not about accomplishment. It was about happiness. He is in the unusual position to have achieved a great level of accomplishment.

Eh, Leonardo da Vinci out-accomplished him and wished for the reverse.

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Post by cableshaft »

lawn wrote: post #89
jaggederest wrote: post #72

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It's only a fallacy for people who actually have arrived. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a useful framework - of course people who have achieved physical and emotional security, esteem in their career and family think that "it's not all about accomplishments", because they have all the accomplishments they need and are just trying to self-actualize. People who aren't in a position to worry about self-actualization be…

> People who aren't in a position to worry about self-actualization because they're trying to stay fed and clothed are unlikely to agree that money doesn't matter that much, if asked on their deathbed at presumably a young age. Lets be real though, almost everyone who reads HN are in the self-actualization phase, instead of the "how not to starve" phase.

I'd agree they're probably not in the Basic Needs phase, but not necessarily past Psychological needs (Esteem, Belongingness and love, which are both under Self-Actualization).

Can be hard to get beyond those, and money isn't the deciding factor there.

Re: Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember

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Post by cableshaft »

sharadov wrote: post #123

There will come a time in our lives towards the end when we most likely will be alone - some of us will be fortunate to have partners or close friends. And when that time comes - the memories you made will be your sole company, so while you are healthy, go out and make those good memories.

How well will you remember those memories by then? You'll have some pictures and videos to help, and some posts or journals to reread, but it could seem like an almost completely different person did those things by then.

I barely remember anything that happened to me 20 years ago (almost all of it is thanks to some journal entries I made back then and some files I have saved from then). I've surprised myself with what I've read in my journals relatively often, especially the further back I wrote them. Didn't remember those things happening to me at all. I mostly just remember major events and general trends.

Vacations I took more than 10 years ago I almost might as well not have taken because I remember at most maybe one or two brief anecdotes and a handful of mental images. And conversations I had with people are basically all lost if I didn't commit them to journals at the time.

Not outright disagreeing with you, btw, but sometimes it seems like I waste a lot of money chasing memories where I could have chased a few less memories, and be a lot closer to retiring by now.

Especially if we're talking media consumption, like CDs/movies/games I watched or played once, if that, or eating out so often in restaurants.

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Post by [deleted] »

talldayo wrote: post #121
pipeline_peak wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lmao…To the 12 year old boy who stole the phone of the person I’m replying to, would you please give it back to the original owner? Stay classy

Please, feel free to circle back and respond once your life amounts to something truly meaningful. I'm looking forward to you spending the rest of your life wallowing in misery so you can "accomplish" less than your adversaries and die an even less-remembered figure than the one guy who played second-fiddle to Jobs. This is what you want, right?

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Re: Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember

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Post by pipeline_peak »

talldayo wrote: post #121
pipeline_peak wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lmao…To the 12 year old boy who stole the phone of the person I’m replying to, would you please give it back to the original owner? Stay classy

Please, feel free to circle back and respond once your life amounts to something truly meaningful. I'm looking forward to you spending the rest of your life wallowing in misery so you can "accomplish" less than your adversaries and die an even less-remembered figure than the one guy who played second-fiddle to Jobs. This is what you want, right?

Yikes…this definitely doesn’t look like the writing of a mentally healthy person…let alone one with a productive, fulfilling life.

Re: Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember

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Post by perilunar »

b112 wrote: post #84
perilunar wrote: post #76

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> We don't know who Jobs or Woz are. This being HN, I reckon there are people here who knew Jobs and Woz personally.

Context counts. And you're actually making my point, about quoting people (where myself, or Jobs or Woz) out of context. My very next sentence: At best, even most people in the field are using 3rd or 5th hand information. See the "most" there? Context counts. The media is far worse than a forum such as this, where at least my words are shown. A reporter will let someone speak for 10 minutes, then quote one sentence c…

If someone on HN who knew someone Jobs or Woz personally tells you something about them it is only 2nd hand, not "at best" 3rd or 5th hand information.

If you watch video of them talking, or read their writing (or know them personally) then it is 1st hand.

It's fairly easy to get 1st and 2nd hand info about a contemporary figure, so I would suggest most interested people are not using 3rd or 5th hand info. Maybe the general public is.

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