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I'm roughly 14 years younger than Woz, and I grew up in Seattle reading about the exploits of the Steves. While I started at a startup in Seattle at 17 years o
by theologic 10y ago
I'm roughly 14 years younger than Woz, and I grew up in Seattle reading about the exploits of the Steves. While I started at a startup in Seattle at 17 years of age, I've never reached any real fame. But I was always a fanboy of the men that built high tech, with Woz being one of them.
8 weeks ago, I returned to the Silicon Valley for a job, and I bought a house in the hills of Los Gatos. After being here for a week, I was told that Woz lives up the hill a few house from mine.
I wake up every morning hoping to see him riding his Segway down the street, but I have yet to spot him.
Everbody wishes they could hang out with the Woz, and even though I'm 54 years old, I still have my heroes in the industry.
Woz is one of them.
- sumedh 10y ago> but I have yet to spot him. Probably because he lives in Tasmania, Australia now.
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- branchless 10y agoHave you read "Commodore: a company on the edge"? https://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Company-Edge-Brian-Bagnall/dp/0973864966 https://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Company-Edge-Brian-Bagnall/... It's not critical of Woz but it does re-seat him as a peripheral figure. I was surprised given the other things I've read. I'm not asserting it as the "truth" but it was a different take.
- Gorbzel 10y agoHacker News: where a commenter won't hesitate to take a dump on your hero, but will lack the confidence to assert any truth to their contrarian takes.
- branchless 10y agoNot at all, I'm pointing out an alternative source, nor am I "taking a dump" on him. I phrased it quite tactfully I thought. If you want to be a fragile zealot, afraid of alternative sources which I asked if you had read, go ahead. In fact at the cost of worshiping one person as "the creator/first" of something we have the loss to history of the role the engineers at Commodore played. That's why it's important to question this stuff.
- michaelbuddy 10y agoSounds like you are offended by hearing something you don't like and projecting something worse upon a commenter. Just short of calling him violent. 2016!!!
- MaxLeiter 10y agoI live in Saratoga and by chance met him once downtown Palo Alto. Can't believe how small the world can seem.