Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and breaking the site guidelines? We ban accounts that do those things. We're not going to ban you for criticizing $celebrity, obviously, but please stop degrading the thread(s) like this.
I think the severity of the response matches the unwarranted adulation usually heaped on Jobs. Some seem to almost think that he was some sort of minor deity.
> He had no redeeming qualities. He was just an asshole who got lucky and then got rich enough that everyone enabled him.
He was an asshole, and also had a lot of redeeming qualities. They're not mutually exclusive. People aren't 2-dimensional, even if it's easier to pretend that they are.
dang|3 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: this has been a problem for quite a while, including re said $celebrity:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29164801 (Nov 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25994615 (Feb 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25515179 (Dec 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24501254 (Sept 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19510410 (March 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14933521 (Aug 2017)
I don't want to ban you because you also post good comments. Please fix this so we don't have to.
na85|3 years ago
wiseowise|3 years ago
dang|3 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
fennecfoxy|3 years ago
mcphage|3 years ago
He was an asshole, and also had a lot of redeeming qualities. They're not mutually exclusive. People aren't 2-dimensional, even if it's easier to pretend that they are.
alehlopeh|3 years ago