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I mean, fucking up is a common thing people do and is an integral part of the human condition. What should be emphasized about Jobs case is that he fucked up his own liver, learned the cause and treatments, used his wealth to cut in the waiting line to get a liver transplant, and then fucked his second liver just the same way. This is the definition of terminally stupid, and no UX focus will ever change that.
How did he fuck up his liver? Do you mean that he was doing something that caused him to develop that tumor?
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I remember reading a story a while back about the documentary they were making on him. He had his special diet of juices and supplements and whatnot, which he claimed helped him while his liver was failing. The actor who portrayed him started following the same diet to better get in character. Only then he collapsed on set with liver problems. They did a full medical work up and basically told him whatever you're doing stop doing it because it's killing you. He went back to his normal diet and he was fine. Raising the serious question, did Steve Jobs outsmart himself to death? If he had given up all the diets and supplements and whatnot might he have lived?
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Forgot about that. I too am deeply irresponsible with my liver, but I would never ask for a second one. That's an entire human organ!
Destroyed computer-aided collaboration.
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
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Imagine how insufferable he would be today.
I'd be far more interested in learning more about the other folks on the Macintosh team. They're an amazing group of people who put a lot of care into something they believed in, Steve Jobs notwithstanding. What they did with what they had was amazing, and the fact that they got lost in Jobs' spotlight is tragic.
The behind the bastards episode will teach you a lot about this piece of shit. Wozniak is the genius, this is just another predatory businessman. Good riddance.
Wow, they made 4 episodes about him, each over an hour long.
Haven't listened to Behind The Bastards but will give this one a listen.
Oh boy, welcome to the Bastards club. Brought to you by Raytheon and Blue Apron.
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Sure Wozniak invented the Apple I and II. But if he never met Jobs his inventions would have stayed a hobby and Apple would have never existed. Woz also didn’t push for an OS with a GUI (which was revolutionary back then) that was Jobs’ idea. Not to mention that Woz had nothing to do with Apple’s comeback. He has been an honorary employee since Jobs was fired. Woz is a genius but people give him way too much credit just like they do with Jobs.
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Im sure the iPod was Wozniaks idea.
Yknow, while I 90% agree with you there seems to be some element between the technical genius (Wozniak) and the idiot businessman that is Tim Apple.
Jobs may have been a piece of shit but there’s something to be said for the uncompromising non-technical focus on UX that allowed Jobs to make the iPhone a success.
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being smart at something doesn't mean youre smart at everything. not that im saying that jobs was smart, but its not a given. e.g how there are scientists who are anti-vax
I never like to let people forget the raw fruit diet comes from a cult that believes people from Venus told us that's the key to eternal life
So they went ahead and picked the least habitable planet in our entire solar system to harbor a civilization? They should have said Europa, at least then it would have been moderately believable.
That's just how good fruit is for you, you can even live on Venus no problem
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Before he died, he did say it was one of his biggest regrets.
"one of", not "the"? Now I'm wondering what could someone like him regret more than the choice that literally killed him?
His #1 regret was not being a bigger douchebag which according to many experts was already an impossible feat.
The only way you could have been a bigger asshole is if he were still alive today to be kissing Trump's arse, because he 100% would have been doing so.
Maybe his tumultuous relationship with his daughter Lisa
"Sometimes, late at night, when I can't sleep, and it's just me, alone with my thoughts... I just... I can't help but feel... I should've called it Pear."
That universe already exists in iCarly
"This is like, top five worst things in my life. Easily."