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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by onei »

williamdclt wrote: post #68
ryancnelson wrote: post #43

i love this. A startup I was at during early COVID times got acquired into Hewlett Packard Enterprise, so we all became HPE employees with HPE addresses. There was a similar form there to request "ryancnelson"@hpe, etc... One of my co-workers got cute and asked for "root@hpe.com" .... And boy, there's a lot of cron jobs running at HP.

I’m confused why cron jobs would be sending emails to root@hpe.com?

If you want emails from some random internal machine, you can use one of the HPE SMTP servers. There was one for internal email, another for external iirc although I'm not sure there was a difference in practice. Those SMTP servers would do a DNS lookup before accepting the email.

When I set this sort of thing up, I'd get myself a hostname on an internal subdomain. But that was a truly miserable experience. It was a multi-stage form submission on a server I imagine to be the closest possible relation to an actual potato. It was soul-destroyingly slow. Alternatively, you could just pretend your machine was hpe.com - the hostname was valid, even if the IP was totally wrong, and the SMTP server would accept it.

My guess is that there was a bunch of stuff that pre-dated the HP/HPE split and they took the quick and dirty option whenever the old internal domain name got yanked during the changeover. And if your process runs as root, you get root@hpe.com and hope there's something in the subject/body to identify the specific machine.

Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by brcmthrowaway »

a10c wrote: post #264
brcmthrowaway wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When did Apple start issuing stock/RSUs? Probably only in 2004 when Google got rich

https://contracts.justia.com/companies/apple-111/contract/95... 2003, when the share price was $0.37

Jesus! Folks in the 30 years prior must be fuming

Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by eppsilon »

hnfong wrote: post #269
a10c wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://contracts.justia.com/companies/apple-111/contract/95... 2003, when the share price was $0.37

Nit: share price was not $0.37, there's been a couple stock splits since.

In case anyone is curious, AAPL has split a combined 56-to-1 since 2003.

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Post by op00to »

hx8 wrote: post #183
MarkMarine wrote: post #94

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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?

I don’t want to know things I’m not supposed to know. There’s no benefit to having that information. I’m not going to blackmail someone with it. I can’t profit over it. Better to delete immediately.

Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

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Post by lutusp »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #187
lutusp wrote: post #126

My 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.

Apparently still there, but mostly hidden under a tree (as seen by Google Maps). In a spectacular irony, Google has no street view of their own parking lot.

I suppose one could periodically check for the presence of this artifact, and if it were to suddenly vanish, that would suggest that Google has decided to build another electric car. It is, after all, legacy IP, best hidden away.

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Post by mbarria »

daseiner1 wrote: post #101
vkou wrote: post #93

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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…

He did steal money more directly from Wozniak.

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Post by tomhow »

6stringmerc wrote: post #80

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43930507 and marked it off topic.

Please don't break the guidelines like this. You might not owe Steve Jobs better, but you owe this community better if you'd like HN to be a place for having good discussions about interesting topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Post by nar001 »

jrockway wrote: post #159
flutetornado wrote: post #146

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I’d do that every time I get a chance! Ex-HPE black label on my resume from a startup I used to work in that they bought. That company is a complete horror show.

It was weird. It makes me sad because the startup I worked at was really gelling despite the HPE interference. Then they just laid everyone off one day (multiple senior leadership changes later) for no apparent reason. All the code is Apache 2 so I guess if I really cared I could just revive it... and as it turns out, I don't care that much. Other stuff to do.

What was it? Since the source code is open source, you probably wouldn't mind telling?
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