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Nice, but insincere in that it doesn't recognize that Steve Jobs was an abusive jerk who wouldn't recognize his own daughter. Maybe a very necessary jerk who be

Nice, but insincere in that it doesn't recognize that Steve Jobs was an abusive jerk who wouldn't recognize his own daughter. Maybe a very necessary jerk who benefited humanity tremendously by pushing people into doing wonderful things that otherwise would not have been done any time soon. And maybe he became a better human being later on in his life. Still, fiction is not the best tribute to someone about whom many great things can already be said.

jbverschoor 4y ago
To me or more reads like someone trying to deal with his god-complex or something.
- jbverschoor 4y ago
  Just saw the actual speech with this text. Sounds totally positive like that. The e-mail at first looked like some sort of daily affirmations.
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NetOpWibby 4y ago
I’m sure his widow and best friends will get right on that. /s
toomim 4y ago
That doesn't make it "insincere." It just means that the creators of this archive have different priorities than you. I doubt that the people who hate Steve Jobs are willing to make something called "The Steve Jobs Archive", anyway.
- cat_plus_plus 4y ago
  I don't hate Steve Jobs, it just doesn't do justice to him, as a real life great and flawed person, to portray him as Dalai Lama.
eastbound 4y ago
> abusive jerk who wouldn't recognize his own daughter Men have to be able to choose whether they want children.
- sofixa 4y ago
  That's pretty easy to do with 99%+ success rate.
  - BiteCode_dev 4y ago
    Condoms effectivement is 98%: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/contraception/male-condoms/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/contraception/male-condoms/ If you have sex twice a week (which for a young couple is very conservative), after a year, you've reach 100 attempts already. You then better hope the two patners agree on wether or not keeping the baby.
    - sofixa 4y ago
      It's 98% for the condom itself, but if you couple it with the fact that the 2% failure rate has to correspond with an ejaculation in an ovulating female's vagina, the actual effectiveness is much higher.
      - eurleif 4y ago
        That's not accurate (if it were, we wouldn't have efficacy rates for coitus interruptus and the rhythm method that this can be directly compared to, which we do); but the rate is per year, not per act. From the link: >When used correctly every time you have sex, male condoms are 98% effective. This means 2 out of 100 people will become pregnant in 1 year when male condoms are used as contraception. On the other hand, over 20 years, that translates to an efficacy rate of only 67%.
        BiteCode_dev 4y ago
        And that's "if used correctly". Now add passion, alcohol, nails, wrong lubricants, and ignorance for a much worse rate.
bootstrapper35 4y ago
I don't know what was between him and his daughter but it's hard to comprehend how busy one can get. A guy in his position, I'm not surprised he would not have time for kids.
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MDWolinski 4y ago
Unless you're Hitler, memorials always focus on the positive. The "jerk" side of Jobs is well documented and well known. Having used Apple products since the Apple II+, I've followed Jobs from nearly the beginning. I recall when he left Apple and started Next, there were plenty of articles that talked to Apple employees at the time who would tell stories of getting berated by Jobs. But the employees also asked to remain anonymous. "Why?" asked the writer. "Because I want the opportunity to work for him again." Leadership can be all positive focused feedback (the current trend), all negative focused feedback or or mix (which Jobs was). You're either Brilliant or a Bozo. Don't be a bozo. Positive focused feedback really doesn't help with that.

jbverschoor 4y ago

To me or more reads like someone trying to deal with his god-complex or something.

jbverschoor 4y ago
Just saw the actual speech with this text. Sounds totally positive like that. The e-mail at first looked like some sort of daily affirmations.

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NetOpWibby 4y ago

I’m sure his widow and best friends will get right on that. /s

toomim 4y ago

That doesn't make it "insincere." It just means that the creators of this archive have different priorities than you. I doubt that the people who hate Steve Jobs are willing to make something called "The Steve Jobs Archive", anyway.

cat_plus_plus 4y ago
I don't hate Steve Jobs, it just doesn't do justice to him, as a real life great and flawed person, to portray him as Dalai Lama.

eastbound 4y ago

> abusive jerk who wouldn't recognize his own daughter Men have to be able to choose whether they want children.

sofixa 4y ago
That's pretty easy to do with 99%+ success rate.
- BiteCode_dev 4y ago
  Condoms effectivement is 98%: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/contraception/male-condoms/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/contraception/male-condoms/ If you have sex twice a week (which for a young couple is very conservative), after a year, you've reach 100 attempts already. You then better hope the two patners agree on wether or not keeping the baby.
  - sofixa 4y ago
    It's 98% for the condom itself, but if you couple it with the fact that the 2% failure rate has to correspond with an ejaculation in an ovulating female's vagina, the actual effectiveness is much higher.
    - eurleif 4y ago
      That's not accurate (if it were, we wouldn't have efficacy rates for coitus interruptus and the rhythm method that this can be directly compared to, which we do); but the rate is per year, not per act. From the link: >When used correctly every time you have sex, male condoms are 98% effective. This means 2 out of 100 people will become pregnant in 1 year when male condoms are used as contraception. On the other hand, over 20 years, that translates to an efficacy rate of only 67%.
      - BiteCode_dev 4y ago
        And that's "if used correctly". Now add passion, alcohol, nails, wrong lubricants, and ignorance for a much worse rate.

bootstrapper35 4y ago

I don't know what was between him and his daughter but it's hard to comprehend how busy one can get. A guy in his position, I'm not surprised he would not have time for kids.

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MDWolinski 4y ago

Unless you're Hitler, memorials always focus on the positive. The "jerk" side of Jobs is well documented and well known. Having used Apple products since the Apple II+, I've followed Jobs from nearly the beginning. I recall when he left Apple and started Next, there were plenty of articles that talked to Apple employees at the time who would tell stories of getting berated by Jobs. But the employees also asked to remain anonymous. "Why?" asked the writer. "Because I want the opportunity to work for him again." Leadership can be all positive focused feedback (the current trend), all negative focused feedback or or mix (which Jobs was). You're either Brilliant or a Bozo. Don't be a bozo. Positive focused feedback really doesn't help with that.