That’s so cool. :)
What a great career you’ve had to work with some really legendary people.
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
you and i certainly have very different ideas of what an "awful" human being looks like and i hate to play mr. ceo defender but "a very good businessman who made a lot of money" is selling him rather short, i think. he developed several products that radically changed the paradigm of computing and consumer electronics. that deserves a certain degree of veneration, i think. he didn't get rich by jacking up the price o…
For the insulin thing, maybe you are thinking of Martin Shkreli. What he did got him in prison more than he got him rich. For the pollution thing, the truth is that many of those who got rich polluting the rivers and such actually produced lots of innovation. Plastics fit your description, and I think few things have been more of a paradigm shift than plastics. I get you with the ads business, but Google made a revol…
pharmabro went to prison for sec fraud, not the daraprim hike
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#183Whilst working in corporate I tried to get matt@apple.com which was showing as free, but in fact somebody in retail had claimed it. Good for them!
I had mark@apple.com during my time there, accidentally got added to one of the exec’s threads from Tim and felt pretty silly (and didn’t read anything in that thread, couldn’t delete it fast enough, had to email Tim to explain)
There are a lot of stories like this where people accidentally get emails and then not read them. Why wouldn't you read the email?
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#184What if a new employee was named Steve Teve?
I first learned about the ability to apply for custom aliases at my university after noticing a guy I knew didn't have the usual pattern — first 5 of last name, first name initial, and nothing or else numbers 2+ depending upon your order in line. So I was 'millej3'. Then I thought about the guy's name: D___ Hoover. He had applied for, and got, 'hoover'.
I'm in my 40s so bit of a grey beard now, but I worked with the real grey beards at University of Michigan. Something like 75k active staff and students, and more than 600k living alumni, yet their email addresses were like bob@umich.edu. Setting up the first campus email server came with privileges.
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#185When open mail relays used to exist I used to route all my mail through whitehouse.gov.
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This was dead, I vouch for this not because I agree with it. But to show what HN has been to Steve jobs in the past 12 years.
And honestly a lot of the praise in this thread is a recent shift.
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#187My interactions with Steve Jobs came earlier, when he wasn't quasi-mythical, but was already a PITA. A typical interaction with Steve Jobs in 1976: "Hi! Are you Steve Wozniak?" "No, I'm Steve Jobs." "Okay ... umm ... where is Steve Wozniak?" I suspect people's preference for those who were actually building things, over selling them, may have twisted SJ's character ... I mean, more twisted than it already was. Ironic…
Tangentially, there remains a test electric car gathering {r,d}ust in one of Google's parking lots, from the early years, that I believed "belonged" to Sergey. IIRC it's at 37.417743, -122.082186
I wonder if they'll ever move it out, put it in a museum or something.
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#188This was such a great story. Steve was a mischievous person himself, so surely a part of him respected this.
My first real job my boss told me "Everyone fucks up, it's ok, when you do your first big fuck up... just be honest, and tell me."
3 years later I accidentally took down all the ATMs for one of the largest consumer banks in America for a while in the middle of the night.
My boss came in "Hey you finally did it, you took longer than most, but that was a good one!" and that was all that was ever said about it.
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#189Why only first name? Should have set up `jobs@apple.com` to forward directly to Steve Jobs too and let the comedy ensure.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cronjobs often run as root. If the host has is configured to send emails when a cronjob is completed it will default to sending it to user@domain where the user is the user the cronjob runs as, and the domain is what was configured in the cron configuration.
Minor nitpicky correction: cron only sends an email if there's any stdout of the job. This is an important distinction because if you have configured mail forwarding, your cron jobs should be configured to output only on error.. then any emails are actionable.
Moreutils has a great command `chronic` which is a wrapper command like `time` or `sudo`, ie. you just run `chronic `. It'll supress stdout and stderr until the command exits at which point it will print only if the exit code was non-zero.