“Make something wonderful” is canonized

  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    If only there was a person who actually had anything to do with the Cray 1 they could put on it instead? Maybe that person will even share the name with the computer?

    It gets worse the more you think about it. Cray and Jobs had completely opposing paradigms for how to develop computers. Cray was always innovating and providing capability, Jobs was always simplifying and burying low-level tools.

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    9 hours ago

    As cool as it is to hate on Steve Jobs, he did a lot of things right and I believe the digital landscape would be better if he was still around.

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    1 day ago

    Jobs wasn’t innovative, he knew innovative people and took their credit. He was a businessman.

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      9 hours ago

      Nah. Jobs was crazy innovative and a major driving force for making computers accessible to the general populace.

      “Think different” meant don’t be a fuckin retard who forgot what it means to be human just to fit in with other retards.

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        8 hours ago

        He worked very hard to make you think this, yeah. Meanwhile all the people doing the work remained pretty obscure.

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          6 hours ago

          Yeah, you people are absolutely clueless.

          Glad I stopped taking the average internet moron seriously. All you do is chase snowball effects for brownie points among each other.

          In many ways, this is exactly what Jobs meant by thinking different. Clearly none of you are capable of it.

          • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
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            6 hours ago

            Awww, someone is having a temper tantrum.

            While I usually encourage punching up, maybe you shouldn’t do that with the average internet moron.

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              6 hours ago

              If you think this is a tantrum then you’re just reaffirming all my assumptions about you.

              The average internet user is a moron.

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                6 hours ago

                No content, only crying and whining? Classic tantrum.

                you’re just reaffirming all my assumptions about you.

                All the assumptions? Reaffirmed?!

                The average internet user is a moron.

                Yet even they still keep showing you up. That has to sting.

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                  5 hours ago

                  Yeah, you’re projecting now.

                  I’m just going to ignore you and let you get it out of your system.

                  Keep being average.

      • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 hours ago

        The fact you believe this just proves how big of a scam artist he was.

        His biggest success (and scam) was how he sold himself as being some tech god, which is still believed by many even this long after his death.

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          6 hours ago

          You don’t have to be a tech god to not be a retard.

          His whole shthick was about making computers accessible to laymen, which most people didn’t care about at the time.

          If you trawl Linux forums, a lot of people still don’t care about it and blame users for not “studying” how they should use their system or its programs.

          • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
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            6 hours ago

            Have you considered thinking before posting or are you trying for a Facebook cringelord “Sound and the Fury” vibe? Maybe try not emulating Benjy so hard in the future.

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      1 day ago

      Jobs was a glorified salesman. Edison was an oligarch notorious for lying, cheating, stealing, and his complete lack of ethics and morals.

      I’m absolutely no fan of Jobs but Edison was the bigger bastard.

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        Jobs took credit for everyone else’s work. He presented himself as a visionary and a creator, when he was mostly just a liar and a thief.

        Maybe Edison was worse. I’m not saying Jobs was worse than Edison. I’m saying Jobs fabricated a legacy that a lot of people still believe, and will believe for a long time.

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            6 hours ago

            What does accessibility mean in this context? That basically makes it sound like Jobs just lead the sales and marketing department.

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          1 day ago

          One of several, but the first and probably most influential. Met Woz. He’s brilliant, but a weird dude.