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This has been on HN a bunch of times already. News is supposed to be new, correct?
by bravoyankee 13y ago
This has been on HN a bunch of times already. News is supposed to be new, correct?
- angersock 13y agoThis story was news to me, and I haven't seen it in a couple of years here. The only part here not news is Steve Jobs/Apple acting like jackasses--the particulars of the story are interesting.
- znowi 13y agoInterestingly, he was also a close mentor to Larry Page and Sergey Brin :)
- adventured 13y agoNot true. He was a distant mentor, not a close mentor. He did the same for Zuckerberg.
- _pmf_ 13y ago> Interestingly, he was also a close mentor to Larry Page and Sergey Brin The probably derived their "Don't be evil" from taking the reciprocal of what Steve Jobs "mentored" them.
- wavefunction 13y agouh... and how's that working out. Come on, "Don't be evil" is just clever marketing that a lot of people fell for at first, and some still do.
- ak39 13y agoAbsolutely! This sort of jingoism at corporate level, the sort of moral imperative front-facing cleverly marketed idealism is the new religion, I swear. I can understand when a company puts itself "out there" with "Being the best" or "Customer first" or some bullshit like that. But when the rhetoric enters the realm of good ol' fashioned morality and talks about Good and Evil .. yoh! ... Our bs sensors should now be howling, thanks to companies like Google.
- tyang 13y agoPlease tell us what you REALLY think. :)
- muyuu 13y agoSame here, and it's one of the most interesting pieces I've read in a while.
- sigzero 13y ago> This story was news to me, and I haven't seen it in a couple of years here. Which is it?
- aroch 13y agoPretty sure the meaning of the sentence is, "It's was news to me, I haven't seen it posted here during the couple years I've been a member"
- msvan 13y agoIf it gets to the frontpage, it's because it was upvoted by people who hadn't seen it before. If you've already seen it, you don't need to click it.
- epo 13y agoIt gets upvoted because anti-Apple and Anti-Jobs stories feed the drooling hordes who seem to have become the majority here.
- pavs 13y ago> News is supposed to be new, correct? I don't think there is any rule on HN that says that all submitted stuff has to be new.
- bornhuetter 13y agoThere isn't. Stuff gets posted all the time with [year] in the title; if it's interesting it gets upvoted.
- skidding 13y agoIt's highly probable that someone saw it while checking out the aufond.me demo a few points down the front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5879071 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5879071) http://aufond.me/sivers/got-dissed-by-steve-jobs http://aufond.me/sivers/got-dissed-by-steve-jobs
- beshrkayali 13y agoThat's exactly what happened. The only reason why I submitted it is that it was news to me.
- exDM69 13y agoHow about checking for previous submissions before posting and putting a [2010] in the title then?
- danmaz74 13y agoHN already does a check, if the submission is recent. For older submissions, very wisely, PG decided that they can be resubmitted - lots of interesting stuff comes out from time to time that is new to newcomers.
- beshrkayali 13y agoI should've put 2010 in the title. HN shouldn't have allowed it if it was a problem/against the rules.
- pfarrell 13y agoYou can try to hit HN search or something, but if you didn't purposefully alter the URL to make it "unique" and the system accepted it, then you are playing by the rules that matter. Meta-disagreements from the community, notwithstanding, I appreciated your post. People like to complain. It's something you expose yourself to when you participate in a community.
- weavie 13y ago
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