We recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari horoscope program
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"gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha"
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Does that sound like some real depth?
This part "known for taking LSD, living with monks and yogis in India, visiting the Hari Krishna temples, visiting the Zen Buddhist temples" basically describes any self-respecting hipster hippie in the late 60s/early 70s. There were even bus services that catered to the market, and many celebs at the time (most famously The Beatles) did the same:
(And this was from the vantage point of Kansas. Christ, California must have been out of this world in the 70's.)
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Even after Jobs started paying more attention to Brennan-Jobs, her mother, Chrisann Brennan, apparently felt uncomfortable leaving him with her alone after an incident in which he questioned and teased the then-9-year-old Brennan-Jobs about her sexual attractions and proclivities.
When Brennan went to live with him as a teen, he forbade her from seeing her mother for 6 months. After moving in with them, Brennan told her stepmother, Laurene Powell-Jobs, that she felt lonely and asked that they tell her goodnight in the evenings... Powell-Jobs responded, "We're cold people."
Once, as Jobs groped his wife and pretended to be having sex with her, he demanded that Brennan stay in the room, calling it a "family moment." He repeatedly withheld money from her, told her that she would get "nothing" from his wealth — and even refused to install heat in her bedroom.
When she started to become active in her high school, Jobs got on Brennan for not spending more time with the family, telling her, "This isn't working out. You're not succeeding as a member of this family."
At one point, neighbors of the family were so worried about Brennan that they helped her move into their house. They also helped her pay for college.https://finance.yahoo.com/news/memoir-steve-jobs-apos-daught...
That's why they win.
We can admire people in some areas while also acknowledging their tremendous faults in other areas.
The above is not just normal faults of the magnitude we all have, instead they're pretty strong indications that jobs was a terrible person. He was probably a narcissist.
> We can certainly still learn from them, instead of casually dismissing them when we find an instance that they don't live up to our pedestal.
There are different kinds of "learning from people," I'd recommend not "learning from" Jobs like he's a guru to be admired, but that's what a lot of people do.
We should admire and learn from good people, and the lesson to learn from Jobs is terrible people can be successful, and not to confuse success for goodness.
> We can certainly still learn from them, instead of casually dismissing them when we find an instance that they don't live up to our pedestal.
He was brilliant when it came to the creation and rejuvenation of Apple, his famous Reality Distortion Field, and his insight into the power and direction of technology.
We can acknowledge Jobs the Digital Guru while recognizing that Jobs the man was not a good person.
Steve was deep into a specific lineage that went from Kodo Sawaki (the 'Homeless Kodo') to Kobun Chino Otogawa, who was Steve’s long-time mentor and even did his wedding. Sawaki was famous for being a total rebel; he had a column in the Asahi Shimbun in the late '60s filled with these blunt aphorisms that basically told people to stop being so full of themselves. You can definitely see that 'no-BS' attitude in Steve's approach. He also used meditation as a way to work through problems.
I would recommend this book, 'The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo,' which features Kodo's aphorisms and various levels of commentary:https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Zen-Teaching-of-Homel...
https://github.com/kl4yfd/timewave_z3r0
https://github.com/jasondrawdy/Omniwave
Now point that to 12th August, 2026 to see it's there's some relation. The lower the Y point = the more the 'novelty'.
It's a bit of crackpot science but that would just mean most of the humanity behaviour from genomics it's highly predictable except for some cosmetics and newer knowledge.
You can see these patterns in big human gatherings. And under bird flocks.
The more people you connect, the less individuality you'll get, as some unique behaviour will emerge from few leaders, as if they were tied to virtual strings/chains.
Also: this is entirely crazy:
Title:Matter-wave interference with particles selected from a molecular library with masses exceeding 10000 amu
https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8343
TL;DR: Apparenting separate system behaving as a single one. Like birds without colliding into themselves while flying.
Something along the lines of Intel 8080 assembly may have been more appropriate, given that the target platform would have probably been a coin-op machine. (Given that "Gun Fight", the first arcade video game utilising a microprocessor, wasn't yet released, even this would have been an ambitious choice. Atari doing research for something that required an ALU may be even more interesting than the involvement of the young Steve Jobs.)
PS: This is just to give some truth to "this is where the hackersnews jerks will say this is an ad". ;-)
As I read that sentence, before reaching the parenthesis, I actually thought it was cool and smart marketing. It feels like the author misunderstands what is typically called an ad, which are those blog posts which read like “has this ever happened to you” infomercials, inventing a problem and then publicising their product as the exact solution at the end.
This, on the other hand, is just for fun and the joy of hacking, and HN typically enjoys those. Heck, you even listed alternative ways to run it before your own.
The only thing that bothers me about the article is the poor formatting and the insistence on lower case, both of which make it unpleasant to read for me.
we listed multiple ways to run it because the goal was preservation and play, not funneling anyone anywhere.
the formatting and lowercase are deliberate, it's not meant to be modern content-optimized blog that hade ads or advertisers i need to make sure are happy. totally reasonable if that makes it unpleasant for you, but it is not accidental.
I understood that. I still maintain it seems misdirected, since this is not the type of post HN typically criticises for being an ad, for the reasons I mentioned above and you yourself pointed out:
> we listed multiple ways to run it because the goal was preservation and play, not funneling anyone anywhere.
Exactly. It is clear what the goal was, which is why I think you wouldn’t get the criticism (or, I believe, such criticism would’ve been downvoted in this instance).
> the formatting and lowercase are deliberate (…) it is not accidental.
Again, I understand that. I don’t think you’d have done that and published it by mistake.
> it's not meant to be modern content-optimized blog that hade ads or advertisers
This I don’t get. Using proper letter cases isn’t being “modern content-optimized [for] ads”, it’s simply good writing and respecting readers. Letter cases serve a function, they help with readability, comprehension, disambiguation… As the joke goes: “capitalisation is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse”.
And when I mention formatting I’m also referencing the seemingly random line breaks, the tiny headers, the lack of spacing between headers and text, the inconsistent spacing between paragraphs and lists… Everything is all over the place, inconsistent, hard to read and follow. A basic HTML page with no CSS has better formatting by default. Of course, you’re free to have it however you like, I don’t dispute that at all, but you’ll also lose serious readers because of it and that’s a shame.
Makes you wonder if they are as lazy in the rest of their products.
It can also mean just the positions of planets moon and sun relative to constellations but that is a much less common usage.
If you've got enough in your pot you don't need to look in the other guy's pot.
Doing anything less than that makes you a dick.
Woz got screwed over. Should he have pushed back on this? Maybe. Would Woz have had a better life if he had? I'm doubtful. I'd say Woz got the better deal in the long term. His friend had a tumultuous life and ultimately died of stubbornness. Woz seems to have had decades of good living.
That said, that experience, and this article, that Jobs had an understanding of computers and electronics when founding Apple beyond the "Woz = engineer, Jobs = sales guy" oversimplification. It's just that compared to Woz—one of the century's greatest engineering minds—anyone would look third-rate.
haha, brillant.