Steve Wozniak on Smart Watches, Motivating Engineers, Siri, and More

Re:Steve Wozniak on Smart Watches, Motivating Engineers, Sir... by Terretta on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:49AM (#18267940)

> Sunday, 29 June 1975, has gone down in computing history as the day on which Steve Wozniak first showed Steve Jobs a working prototype of the Apple 1, and as the first time that someone typed a character on the keyboard of a personal computer and it appeared on a screen. ... Said Wozniak, “You know I’m a prankster — I actually made up that date and just kept repeating it.” The actual event, as he can best recall, happened weeks or months later.

I don't get it. How is citing a decades-old date weeks before the real date a "prank"?

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Re:Steve Wozniak on Smart Watches, Motivating Engineers, Sir... by abcdcba on Sunday October 21, 2018 @10:02AM (#18267992)

I think the "prank" is that now whenever someone cites that day he knows it's the wrong day. I find it kind of funny the cult of Mac has that day wrong.

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Re:Steve Wozniak on Smart Watches, Motivating Engineers, Sir... by vxNsr on Sunday October 21, 2018 @11:47AM (#18268578)

Ugh, I hate "pranks" like that.

I once met an Englishman, who assured me he was from South Africa, after talking with him for like 10 minutes, he starts cracking up... when I asked why he said "Because I'm actually English!!"

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hilarious.

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Re:Steve Wozniak on Smart Watches, Motivating Engineers, Sir... by robocat on Sunday October 21, 2018 @02:28PM (#18269375)

This is a cultural thing. If you must spend time with British people (or some of the ex-colonies) you need to learn how to recognise (and protect yourself from) sarcasm and "jokes" (what you might see as lies and cruelty).

When I was 21 in the US we played a mean game of seeing what we could make Americans believe - and we came up with some truly bizarre stuff.

I think that English people do this as a proxy test of intelligence - it is a continuous competition. Maybe an English person can correct me?

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