Devastatingly he fell ill just before his trip and had to withdraw. Fortunately we hadn't announced anything however I still mourn over the missed opportunity to be able to introduce this living legend to our audience!
https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/...
Hacker news is designed for and targeted at hackers. In the sense of the word that means people who write code, not people who break into things. Other people with similar tastes also like it.
Since it's run by YC and the initial users were mostly YC founders, there is inevitably a startup spin to the stories that are popular here. In fact the site was originally called Startup News. But it turned out to be boring to have so much of a startup focus, so we changed the name and the focus to be more general.
Also: https://web.archive.org/web/20070624055731/http://www.founde...
Woz has always carried a near perfect approval rate in our community. I've never seen anyone come close.
I realize that’s a normative claim. Like the blind men and the elephant, we’re each touching a different part.
And your argument is based on the fact that you’d like this to be true as well as the fact that the vc company behind this site said, “Trust us bro!”
How is that different from the cow saying, “The farmer told us we’re walking through a fun maze!”
Jobs was a brilliant product manager and marketeer - every bit as brilliant as Woz is an engineer.
The truth is, the sharpest engineers struggle to make a marketable consumer product - because they make it for themselves, and while thats quite laudable, however it's generally a tiny market compared to one targeted at normal people.
The mythologizing of Jobs is the canonical example of people condoning terrible behavior because they think that a person is smart/valuable/talented/etc.
To me this is completely backwards and sets a terrible precedent - that you can act however you want if you get results - especially given how many people idolize and look up to Jobs.
https://medium.com/packt-hub/how-to-be-like-steve-ballmer-cf...
People wouldnt use electron is they had good alternative
But the general lack of really cross-platform (desktop + mobile + maybe web) ecosystems is just as much as sign that devs consider multi-gigabyte Electron apps "good enough" as the apps themselves.
Maybe I am living in the past, but it does make me think that they might be depriving themselves of an opportunity to develop key skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoJexQjoMtk
(found on the blog of Cabel Sasser: https://cabel.com/woz-vs-wooz/)
So I would also say... the kinds of things we learn from Woz are concrete and we get immediate feedback if we learned them wrong.
It sounds like they complemented each other during the startup. And it was Jobs who suggested that they should try running a company.
Sounds a bit like Jimmy Carter. His best and most influential work came after he left The Oval Office.
Anyone who knows Apple knows who “Scott” is referring to. Scott Forstall.
EDIT: reading this again, now thinking you are right and they are just being snarky about the “one Woz in the world” existing.
"Woz" is googlable. His name doesn't need context. "Larry" could be Ellison or Page. "Scott" could be Forstall or Adams.
Who played Scott Forstall in the movie?
Anyway, other comments proven it's not just me, too.
For "Scott Apple" search string, Google agrees with me and the forstall guy is just a secondary mention.
Woz invented the consumer personal computer.
That is one of the greatest inventions in human history, perhaps the greatest.