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Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Post by Oculus »

fsck--off wrote: post #15
pud wrote: post #7

Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot). I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by…

> I consider him an expert. What do you make of this Wozniak's comments [1]: "It's so awful and atrocious," said Wozniak, who said he got access to a copy of the movie's script. "Unlike the way Steve and I really dealt with each other. "I didn't want to have much to do with that movie." [1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/30/tech/innovation/wozniak-jobs-m... news.yc discussion of [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…

I'd imagine (haven't seen the movie yet) that Wozniak has a problem with the way they potrayed him in the movie. It's not to far out there that the movie would try to showcase him as a quite, naive, computer guy. Hollywood tends to always do that when portraying hackers.

Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Post by shiftb »

pud wrote: post #7

Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot). I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by…

Second this. I've been wanting to use RapGenius for our engineering blog.

Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Post by jonursenbach »

shiftb wrote: post #22
pud wrote: post #7

Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot). I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by…

Second this. I've been wanting to use RapGenius for our engineering blog.

Curious, but why?

Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Post by Kiro »

fsck--off wrote: post #15
pud wrote: post #7

Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot). I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by…

> I consider him an expert. What do you make of this Wozniak's comments [1]: "It's so awful and atrocious," said Wozniak, who said he got access to a copy of the movie's script. "Unlike the way Steve and I really dealt with each other. "I didn't want to have much to do with that movie." [1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/30/tech/innovation/wozniak-jobs-m... news.yc discussion of [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…

Has anyone ever approved of a portrait of themselves?

Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Post by acqq »

mentos wrote: post #8

'That seems to dovetail with their goal of annotating the entire internet, a notion that would seem to sit well with Andreesen Horowitz and other Rap Genius investors including Ashton Kutcher and budding venture capitalist Nas.' http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2013/05/02/...

I wish this can be upvoted much higher.

A celebrity-signed promotion. Otherwise, we gain practically no new information.

Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Post by georgemcbay »

skannamalai wrote: post #13

semi-related: I saw the trailer for Jobs before Pacific Rim and it was cut to be laughably bad, like a Daily Show or MADtv sketch. I have low hopes for the movie, but the trailer seemed almost intentionally terrible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nryTz9iBqEI

Oh god, that looks so bad.

Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Post by acqq »

danellis wrote: post #19
skannamalai wrote: post #13

semi-related: I saw the trailer for Jobs before Pacific Rim and it was cut to be laughably bad, like a Daily Show or MADtv sketch. I have low hopes for the movie, but the trailer seemed almost intentionally terrible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nryTz9iBqEI

They show Jobs and Woz with the caption "It only takes one person..." Nice :-\

Typical Hollywood pushing stereotypes to the extreme "That's what the public wants, bro. You want this to sell."

On another side, Jobs going around barefooted and even stinking is a true story. It's really a good material for the movies.

Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Post by simplegeek »

pud wrote: post #7

Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot). I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by…

I am just curious, how can I get the following

- Job's favorite books - Arts that Jobs liked

Any help/pointers will be appreciated?

Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Post by mietek »

Kiro wrote: post #24
fsck--off wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I consider him an expert. What do you make of this Wozniak's comments [1]: "It's so awful and atrocious," said Wozniak, who said he got access to a copy of the movie's script. "Unlike the way Steve and I really dealt with each other. "I didn't want to have much to do with that movie." [1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/30/tech/innovation/wozniak-jobs-m... news.yc discussion of [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…

Has anyone ever approved of a portrait of themselves?

Yes.

More to the point, Woz has approved of the way people were portrayed in "Pirates of Silicon Valley", including himself.

"It's funny, but even with all the things that aren't said outright, a great number of people, like yourself, saw a lot of things in that movie that are totally true. The personalities were very accurately portrayed."

"The personalities and incidents are accurate in the sense that they all occured but they are often with the wrong parties (Bill Fernandez, Apple employee #4, was with me and the computer that burned up in 1970) and at the wrong dates (when John Sculley joined, he had to redirect attention from the Apple III, not the Mac, to the Apple ][ ) and places (Homebrew Computer Club was at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)."

http://www.woz.org/taxonomy/term/2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley

Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Post by kahirsch »

mmahemoff wrote: post #14
cgs1019 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, I realized that. I guess I don't grok what RapGenius and these annotations are about.

RapGenius is a YC-funded (and VC-backed) company that lets people annotate rap lyrics. BUT rap is just the initial theme that helps them fine-tune the product. It's increasingly used as a general annotation engine. So here's a high-profile investor demonstrating exactly that point, that it can be used beyond rap.

But what do these annotations mean? Are they things that Jobs said that weren't in the prepared remarks? Are they some kind of ironic commentary by Ashton Kutcher? Are they explanatory annotations?
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