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New $1 US coins to feature Steve Jobs and Cray-1 supercomputer — US Mint's 2026 American Innovation Program to memorialize computing history (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 31 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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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    • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Guy died of cancer because he thought he knew better than doctors. What a fucking idiot.

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    • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Steve Jobs was the Edison of personal computing.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Wasn't Woz really the brain behind it all?

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    • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    Were Sacagawea and Susan B. Anthony too woke?

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    [–] 5 points 10 months 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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    [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    gross.

    fuck Steve Jobs.

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    [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    🤮

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    is this heads/tails? i dont think steve jobs had nothing to do with cray-1?

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