I'm not sure what the author's intention was but to me this comes across as 'damning with faint praise'.

mym1990 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Seemed to me like a nice write up with a bunch of anecdotes, I got the sense that Bob was curious, friendly, smart, maybe hopped around from idea to idea(reminds me of me!), and generally lived a good life, made some things(the YouTube video seemed interesting).

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codepoet80 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reads as nice memories of a memorable character who was a part of the evolution of our industry. I enjoyed it.

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bch 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm with 'jacquesm here. Without being there, taken in isolation, hearing about being stolen-from (email republished without attribution), then brought along to Sun for potential blowback(?) or (semi?)-publicly by being labelled an apparently under-sexed nerd doesn't make Cringely sound like much more than a sort of sociopath.

	▲	mym1990 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I feel like if a “friend” is posting that stuff in an obituary, it sheds a little more context on their type of relationship and humor. But who knows, I guess the way you paint it, it does seem kind of rude.

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ghostly_s an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, frankly the guy seemed like a real cad. I've always recognized the name as someone who was "around" the tech world, but never was clear to me he did or said anything interesting. This does not dispel that impression.