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I used to work with graduate EE students in a research lab. We had male and female students. They joked around a lot. Nothing ever too serious. If you pulled your weight, you had everyone's respect.

One day, a top male student came into the lab. A female student was writing some code.

Guy: "What are you working on."

Girl: "Code for the new project."

Guy: "What are you writing it in."

Girl: "Perl."

Guy: "Perl!? (long pause) now that's a man's language."

Girl: "Rolls her eyes... shut-up dumb ass."

That's an example of the banter. The girls wrote just as much code and did all the things the guys did. The only major difference was numbers. There were 6 guys for every 1 girl.

Edit: spelling
Steve Jobs will eventually leave Apple. This is a fact. The question becomes "When he does leave, will Apple be damaged by it"? The press will undoubtedly claim its demise (as they have been for decades), and 10 years ago I think this might have been true - the corporate ethics that have made Apple successful were not in place. Now, with the executive team he's built and trained, I suspect his presence is vastly less important. The design team with Ives, operation team with Cook, etc. know what's making things work. He's been "absent" a lot in the last few years, yet it's been the strongest period for the company - clearly, something works when he's not at his desk.

The damage will be in PR. He's an almost unrivalled corporate showman, and few companies are as associated with their CEO as Apple. Whoever gives keynotes in the future would be wise to develop their own style rather than copy his. There may also be collateral damage in ruthlessness and vision - we constantly hear how he drives new products, and kills off "failures" early. However, the more I read recent interviews with anonymous Apple employees, the more I see he seems to have reformed the company in his image. It's impossible to gauge how much actual presence he's had over the last few years, and it seems quite likely the press have over-egged his effect. As long as his successor is not a radical corporate reformer, and is willing for a few years to be seen as an "Heir to Jobs", it seems likely to me things will roll on quite successfully.

I suspect Jobs will "retire" either this or next year. When they replace him, if they don't promote from within, then any CEO should: absolutely not engage in a massive expansion/race to the bottom; introduce change slowly rather than play with Apple like a new toy and; rely on the corporate team that's been built until they deeply understand what's working and what's not.

In many ways, Job's eventual departure (hopefully based on choice, rather than necessity) could be good for Apple. I firmly believe a little of his control freak nature could be sanded off the company to their advantage. They should drop the "Control for control's sake" direction they've been taking recently, and stay focused on the core corporate ethics that have bought them success - a high degree of perfectionism, technical risk taking, user focused design through everything, and a great marketing team. It won't be exactly the Apple of today, but given some of the…hostile decisions over the last 3 years, it might actually be an improvement.
Apple's Jobs to take medical leave of absence
No, no, you're right. iTunes does have some usability issues still. The "removing a song from playlist" is actually the first one I'd think of also; the fact that you hit the same button to delete a song and to remove it is problematic. By default iTunes pops up a warning either way asking you if you're sure you want to delete/remove, so that that way you know what you're doing, but if you tell it to stop popping up warnings there's a risk of messing things up.

The thing is that anything can become intuitive. Use Amarok long enough and I'm sure it becomes effortless. The term interface design uses to describe this is "mental model"; good designs let users form a model of how something works before they even touch it. (So on iTunes, the metaphor of seeing album covers immediately makes me think that to play an album I click on its cover, which is exactly right.) It's very difficult to create a program that forms a good mental model of every single function at once, especially if you're making a complex program like iTunes. But I'd argue that it's still vastly easier to intuit from the interface than it would be for Amarok, where, looking at that screenshot, I can't tell how I would look at other artists' music or how to form a playlist or a number of other relatively trivial tasks.
I almost died from two large pulmonary embolisms 4 years ago from sitting too long while working (I injured my shoulder, was bored not being able to do normal physical activities, so I ramped up my consulting work to 10+ hours a day - sitting).

Fortunately I recovered OK, and I now switch between three different working postures/environments: sitting at my desk with my legs raised under the desk, in a lazy boy chair with a lap desk, and using a high counter so I can stand. I also use a timer on my laptop that I set for 20 minutes when I take a minute to walk over and scratch my parrot's head: good for me to get up and the parrot likes it.

It is time consuming but I also try to hike and/or walk 5 to 8 hours a week. The exercise and social interactions (I have a pool of 20+ people I hike with) nicely offsets spending a lot of time in front of a computer.
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Well, that's why looking for a "rockstar programmer" probably isn't the best thing to actively seek in an employee. Not unless you're only looking to be a "cool rad" company and not an efficient company that gets things done.
The market needs to figure out Apple sans Jobs.

Which is only going to happen if a post-Apple Jobs continues to excel. Might take a few years for the markets to be convinced.
In 2009, Jobs was on leave from January to June with Tim Cook in charge. There was a dip in the stock when it happened, but it did just fine during the period of his absence (if you define "just fine" as going from ~ $82.00 to ~ $142.00)

I think after it all sorts itself out, it'll be fine.
At my school civil and environmental engineering were in one department, and most of the girls where there for the "environmental" half - or so my CEE friends said, anyways.
"A functional, object-oriented programming language based on Java and .NET, Scala includes some constructs for parallelisation from the outset."

"The goal is to overcome the challenges of parallel programming, [...]"

I hope they copy clojure to death. Clojure got parallel programming constructs right--the first language to make parallel programming trivial (think of pmap).

(AFAIK clojure's PersistentMap has already been ported to scala.)
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Best wishes to Steve and family.
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Perfectly good! I have no issue with it, I just thought it was worth pointing out as I had seen the same URL tweeted.
And this is why HN is fucking awesome.
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Yeah, that matches my experiences of a 22-point post. Thanks for clarifying!
They seem to have signed some sort of associate membership in the European Research Area, though: http://www.euresearch.ch/index.php?id=322, http://www.euresearch.ch/index.php?id=259
Apple's Jobs to Take Medical Leave
It is impossible to move songs in a playlist to the trash. That can’t be what happened. (“Deleting” songs in a playlist always merely removes them from the playlist.)

The only place where you can directly move songs to the trash is the music library. You must have been browsing the music library and confused it with a playlist.
It depends how you want to think about Apple, I would think. If you think about Apple from a Wall Street perspective then losing Jobs would be profound. From a product perspective, I don't think it will have as big an impact. There is so much room to grow with iPhone and iPad now and it seems that the Jobs "aura" is pretty strong. I hope they would elevate a product person to the top spot instead of a manager. Maybe Ives.
I like the lean and mean window managers as well (fluxbox at the moment).
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> In many ways, Job's eventual departure (hopefully based on choice, rather than necessity) could be good for Apple...[i]t won't be exactly the Apple of today, but given some of the…hostile decisions over the last 3 years, it might actually be an improvement.

I certainly hope so.
Get well soon, Steve.
Discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112128
There was actually a pre-release Duke Nukem Forever disk inside - worth 100K on the Hong Kong market... (j/k)
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http://Nurph.com/AllStartups might be of interest to the Hacker News community (Twitter @AllStartups) - it's real-time Twitter chat for startup founders. We're chatting about the latest Apple news right now.
While the iPhone may have had a temporary large majority in the "smart phones consumers actually want to buy" field, they never had more than a fraction of the cell phone market,

The Windows monopoly was entrenched when the market was a fraction of a fraction what it was today: That's the whole essence of a monopoly -- it is self-sustaining.

While Android has made a lot of gains, there are still a lot of networked usages where you are left out if you don't get on the iOS train, whether it's a compelling platform itself or not. I'm going to grab my wife an iPod Touch purely so she can play a WeDoodle game, because that's what every other person on a mommy group plays. My bank released an iPhone application -- promoting it heavily -- after having never released a rich-client application for any platform ever, including when Windows had some 99% of the market.

That's the essence of a monopoly. When your choice is very heavily driven by the network effect of the product. Today it is much, much weaker than it was a year or two ago, but it is still in effect.

While the iPhone's very competitive, and while it has a near monopoly in terms of media popularity - I've seen many iPhones in movies, and no Droid - it by no means came remotely close to a monopoly

Well clearly it isn't now. Android has fractured that nascent monopoly (though many in the Apple cheerleading camp are now proclaiming that with the Verizon phone you no longer need to worry about developing for other platforms -- those suckers have an option of iOS devices on two carriers now. Problem?). Which is why I said that it was close. Two years ago the iPhone was the only smartphone that mattered. Even one year ago there was a strong argument made on places like here that the iPhone was all that really mattered.

And the reality is that if Google didn't have an enormous pile of cash to burn on this project, and they didn't have the "enemy of few" status to actually get the partnerships that mattered, today the iPhone would be the only valid smartphone choice.
I and my japanese wife have the feeling that this apology is really "light".

I mean, he is alone in a shirt, no suit, no tie, seamingly from his personnal computer (no pro involved, no one else), with an improvised background.
It may be felt as sincere and straightforward, but on the other hand it lacks seriousness and commitment. One would say he didn't care to do something more formal, or even to get someone to help, and just hacked a quick reply before getting home.

I seems more targeted at future investors than to angry customers.

Edit: perhaps I should add that the apologies from groupon japan on the official site where basic style, plain text ones. This is the first video published on the issue, so it's a bit jarring to see something so casual.
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This is true, I was struggling to think of an option that doesn't cost money (Mollom) or require a lot of effort (crowd-sourcing a la HN or Reddit). Is reCAPTCHA better than nothing, or entirely worthless?
As you mention, this effect probably works since you don't have Top 100 exposure.
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I was experimenting with different term-extraction API's and I came up with this simple HTML5/CSS3/JS thing that shows you relevant images as you enter text.

http://bupad.agen.si

Basic scenario

- User enters text

- Terms are instantly extracted from content via Alchemy API

- Google Image search is used to find relevant images on Flickr

- Images are shown in the background

There are some minor perks like the fact that the image searches are rotating around the color wheel (Google let's you specify a desired color of the image), and content is also stored in LocalStorage.

The prototype has a "bug" (HTML5 ContentEditable isn't a good enough replacement for a WYSIWYG, only works in Chrome in Safari) and a few "missing features" (Enlarging images and so on).

Right now it's pretty much client-side, everything happens in JS (OOP Prototype and jQ for Cross-site JSON-P requests):

http://bupad.agen.si/javascripts/application.js

Reasons for posting:

I want to gauge the potential and get some feedback. I realize there are players like Zemanta in this field, but I'm pretty sure this could be applied to different use cases.

I am flat broke and late with rent. Will do UI design, Front-End (HTML/CSS/JS) or Server-Side (Rails) development for food & bills. Check my profile for references. If you have work to be done, you want to get in touch with me at hnleads@agen.si. You will save a fellow hacker and enjoy my eternal gratitude, as well as my premium services at a discount.
thats behind a pay wall. what are the ten beasts?
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For the sake of comparison, BP lost .65% the day after the Deepwater Horizon spill.
But you forget that the iPhone competed in many, many fields.

Consumer phone market? iPhone was up against every single cheap phone that called and placed texts. Those phones are still popular for the majority of the population.

Enterprise market? Blackberry was king. Nobody else came close.

Gaming device? The DS and PSP were and still are powerful competitors. The DS in particular, because Nintendo's one of the king game makers and they restrict all their games to their own console.

The iPhone competed very effectively in all those markets. But it never had a risk of dominating a single one. Compare that to Windows — if I wanted a consumer operating system that ran the best/most popular programs, I had to get Windows, because there was no other operating system that had anything like the programs I'd actually have to use. (Mac OS? Not even close.)

If Google didn't have their huge amounts of cash, we'd still have the Blackberry OS, which is still enormously successful (though it's taken a hit recently), and we'd have Windows Phone 7, which is actually a really damn decent operating system.
A simple lightweight player is good because my use case for a music player generally is to listen music, and not to do extensive database queries on the metadata. In that case, a simple minimal interface gets in the way less. I usually had the window in the corner of my screen so I could see what song is playing and skip/rewind tracks.

I have no problems with advanced features, but I simply don't like the big clunky windows that pop up by default.
To be honest, I'm not sure I buy the whole greatest corporate showman thing. In fact I'd even say some of the other Apple execs have a more natural presence on stage.

I thunk Jobs is successful because the product sells itself in most cases, and he doesn't (have to) bullshit you. Of course he's also involved in making the product, which is a different matter.
It has to do with making parallel programming more palpable. See http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4178
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> The thing is that anything can become intuitive. Use Amarok long enough and I'm sure it becomes effortless.

Agreed, but the same applies to itunes. Which is why I think that it is quite hard to accurately judge whether or not one's own music player is intuitive or not.

> But I'd argue that it's still vastly easier to intuit from the interface than it would be for Amarok

And that's where I disagree and why I mentioned that my friends seemed to have less trouble with amarok than I had with itunes. (btw. why are people downvoting my opinion? ok, anecdotal evidence and all that, but really?)
It's not a horrible monster, it's just what happens when you have a brilliant programmer working on an ambitious project, but an early draft version's bugs get frozen as part of a de-facto standard. It could have been a really good language if it had a lot more time to develop.

While _Javascript: The Good Parts_ is good, it's hardly a ringing endorsement.

Lua is a very similar language, but had over a decade longer to develop, with a smaller circle of active users. It's fixed many of Javascript's design flaws.
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I wonder what he actually does over the course of a week, hour by hour. It'd certainly be fascinating to be a fly on the wall.
I'm excited for this project. Thanks for the link!
Also, sometimes I feel like it would be better to read Twitter in the reverse order, and with "Mark as read", just like email.

I read Twitter by going backwards, reading stuff until I read a tweet that I recall having already read.
Clickable:

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Liver failure killed my mother. Cancer killed my father and grandmother. They're both ugly, ugly diseases. While I'm not thrilled at the way Jobs used his money to get himself on as many transplant lists as he could, it's still not anything I'd wish on anyone.

Best of luck to him and his family.
iPhone app "piracy" is perhaps a little different from run of the mill software copyright infringement. It's one of the only places around where even for consumers, there's no way of trying before you buy. I can imagine that there is a significant (I have no idea how large, and not a majority certainly, but significant) number of people who will pirate an iPhone app and then later buy it if they find themselves using it. I'm honest enough to admit that I do this, and I very much doubt I'm alone.
that was quick! thanks Richard!
> I've never really understood the fear of appearing dumb in comparison to people who are smarter or more knowledgable than you.

Consider every joke you've ever heard about a clueless client. Think of every joke you've heard about some support call some tech guy had to take. Think about the "cup holder" joke, the ID 10T given to a customer, or the multitude of stories told on TheDailyWTF.

No one likes to be the butt of a joke.

> I don't really care if someone thinks I am an idiot as long as I learn something. Attaching your ego to the perception of others is a dangerous hang up imho

This is true. But also realize that a large portion of the population have this hangup to some degree.

The one thing I can credit to really demonstrating that their is no harm in asking was asking this girl out in high school. I did it at the worst possible time: in front of her friends and mine as well. I just asked, simply and plainly. She was flabbergasted. She invited me to dinner that very night, with her friend. I was promptly told by that friend later that evening when we were alone for a moment that the girl I had asked was "in shock, but in a good way." We ended up dating. I'd never done anything like that before.

It occurred to me that it's easy to ask, and that anyone who looks down on asking are people that know less than they let on themselves.

I still fall into the trap. But it's handy to realize that asking can lead to surprisingly good, and fun, results.
Clickable:

http://bupad.agen.si

http://bupad.agen.si/javascripts/application.js
I disagree with your disagreement, but I figure at this point it's nitpicking on both our sides. We both stated our cases pretty thoroughly, I think.

> (btw. why are people downvoting my opinion? ok, anecdotal evidence and all that, but really?)

It's because we all like kneejerk downvoting opinions that disagree with ours! Kneejerk is fun! Sometimes we also curse each other out too. It's an awful joy.

(I wish Hacker News would stop with the downvotes. We derive enough data, I think, from masses of upvotes to sort threads by popularity. The only people who deserve downvotes are spammers, and we have the "flag" option for that.)
Sounds like a great time to buy then if the market is over-reacting to news.
...every year for 20 years
You don't think Steve will have prepared his company for this? He treats Apple like his own child, and rightly so.
Perhaps it's Google translate missing some words, but who placed him in the hospital? Was in voluntary?
I don’t do extensive database queries. I browse my music.
No. Chrome is fast, Firefox is extendible. You can always install both.
Modern medicine keeps us alive long enough to eventually die of cancer. I lost my mom a year ago. I wish his family well. It must be tough for them.
It's interesting because I agree with you, Steve does feel a little awkward on stage, and he always has. But at the same time I think he's the best corporate showman I've ever seen.

I think there are two reasons for this. First off, he's a perfectionist when it comes to timing and arrangements. Apple execs in general are pretty good at knowing what the public cares about hearing and what they'll find boring; not so with other companies, whose executives are usually hilariously awful. But even among Apple's top presenters I think that Steve's timing is particularly terrific.

The bigger reason, however, is that Steve displays a really sincere love for almost all the things he shows off (and it's very obvious on the rare occasions he doesn't like what he has to say). It seems really clear that he genuinely thinks all the things he shows off are as terrific as he says they are. It's magnetic to see somebody talk about how much they love something. It's also rare to see it coming from a corporate event.
How did you get the figures for the number of pirates? Is it the anti-piracy code you added reporting back to you?
breadcrumbs of course.
I am a designer, so will be carrying out the (HTML, CSS, JS) changes to UI, whilst carrying out more basic day-to-day PHP stuff as well. Plus I will be concentrating on the business side of the venture. Are you interested in the project?
This is without a doubt some of the most sexist, lazy, stereotypical biological determinism I've had the misfortune of reading. It's embarrassing to even have this here, let alone have it upvoted. It's the kind of drivel I'd expect in a Slashdot thread. I'm sorry you have such a narrow experience of women.
I cannot believe you have been upvoted so many times... that people think that your sexist, stereotypical bullshit is in any way representative of girls/women. It's no wonder women struggle to break into computing careers when there's men like you dictating that the only thing we're good at is sitting around in pretty dresses, playing mommy and gossiping.
As many transplant lists? He got on one, Tennessee, by living there. He didn't live there long, but to be considered he had to be there, not California, Hawaii, and Texas. And I don't blame him. Cancer is a nasty disease and if you've got the money to beat than more power to him. We should all have the resources to fight any disease, but after the silly arguments made about HCR I can say that we don't really "want" that.
Ah I should include that info, thanks.

Flurry tells me the number of [new jailbreak users], which lines up almost perfectly with: [new users] - [new sales].
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