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Ugggh, can someone please explain to me why the word "brand" here couldn't be replaced by with "companies" or "partners" or something like that?
Exactly. The iPad is optimized for consumption. For production, however, the iPad is worth next to naught.

I guess it fits well with the rest of our society. Sigh.
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It's been argued many times over but I now think we are just touching the surface of what a tablet can do. It will be eventually used for content creation. The most important thing is that people feel some kind of a natural connection to it. From there you build around it just as they did with the mouse.

Ideally, we all want people to be enthusiastic about technology and it's best that we accommodate them instead of forcing them to understand it as we do.
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Nope. I won't. 500,000 people live in this area. We're the cultural center of the state. We aren't small potatoes. Face it, Portland, OR is bigger, but it certainly doesn't dwarf Portland, ME.

Moscow, Russia has 11 million people. Moscow, Idaho has 23,000. I know you're probably being flippant, but I hardly think that's a fair analogy.

Besides, we had the name first. :)
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You're right, but the UI is more than that. In the version coming in a few more weeks, there will be two more objects on the right side: a property box and another smaller spreadsheet. The smaller spreadsheet is the editor of the current cell. Ctrl-click on any cell and it will zoom in (make that smaller spreadsheet the main one), and the query goes fromm, say, Person to Person.C3. Shift-click on any cell and it will do a filter/QBE for all rows with that value, etc.

The spreadsheet is the data editor, but it's much more powerful than what you currently see. Otherwise, you're right, you can create what you want; one app I want to do is a better version of Google Wave once the authorization module is plugged in.
you can. i just like to use brands because that's where the monetization will come from. all those words are interchangeable for the purposes of the post
We've been on the brands first, users second path for a while now. We've been trying to align the goal of the brands to be better for users. However, brands are driven by vanity metrics. And focusing on vanity metrics drives you to high churn, shallow engagements rather than deep and steady growth. I'm hoping that at some point we can leverage our experience and the number of people in our user base to help guide brands towards what's truly better for users.
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You might be confusing cause with effect. Charles Schultz may well have lost something essential which caused him to quit the strip and subsequently die.
Most interesting bit in this article for me was the advice to woo web developers and not mobile app developers. Seems like a tactic that could win, assuming webOS lives on (unlikely). There are tons of web developers who didn't make the jump to mobile who would love the chance to experiment with mobile without completely throwing out the years of web knowledge they have earned.
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Steve Jobs touched people lives in a way no other can, sometimes at a very personal level

Can we please stop the Steve Jobs and Apple suck-up here on HN please? This is getting as embarrassing to read as it is getting sickening.

I realize the Sanfran wannebe hipster-crowd here like their shiny iGadgets and want to reaffirm their own worth by appraising the company which they have attached their identity to, but this is getting a little bit out of hand and quite frankly, rather silly.
36,000,000 people live in California. 6,259 people live in California, PA. I don't think that's a fair analogy.
Where does he imply that this is only for huge companies?
Even small start-ups have executives, staff, and a board.

The lesson is the same no matter the scale. If you hire a CTO and then have to fire that CTO, it's most likely your screw up.
You should at least explain why that is bad.
I'd like to see a case where someone didn't stop what they were doing after they died.
Since people seem to disagree, let me list some:

- he (with Woz) invented the personal computer as we know it (a plastic box with a keyboard)

- he made the GUI available to mere mortals (he was the driver behind the Mac when Apple was committing itself to Lisa)

- he made Unix easy to use (NeXT)

- he invented viable commercial music downloads

- he invented the desirable smartphone

- he invented a computer my mom would love to use

He is the driving force behind Apple's during its most fertile periods - I am quite sure nothing leaves the lab without his approval.

What did Gates really invent?
Here's a more recent version, though it lacks the early history that your image has:

http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/11.07/gldt1107.pn...

It's important to understand that the kernel and the distribution aren't the same thing. All these distributions share the same kernel. We're not dealing with forks of the Linux kernel, just packages around the Linux kernel.

> Also, I'm not trolling here, but would welcome the opportunity to understand why (to a newcomer at least) there seem to be so many variations to choose from.

Tthe closest I've been able to come to a reason is "because we can". Make of that what you will. :)
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Here's the cruel harsh fact that you need to know: You are not going to "keep up".

Years ago, you might have been able to remember every parameter to your favourite 20 shell or windows commands. Probably even the difference between the differing version of that operating system. However, if you're anything like me, one of your browser pages is permanently on stackoverflow or j2se docs or pydocs etc etc, as I just can't remember the fluff (heh).

But here's the good news. You don't have to keep up. You don't need to know the 200+ different ways of sorting a list. You just need to know that different ways exist. Then .. JFGI ! You don't need to know what version of java or python feature xyz was added or deprecated... JFGI !

My answer to any interview that has the question "what is the output of the following program?" is always "Well let's ask the computer - that's far better at this kind of thing than me and it will take a lot less time!". I remember someone asking me about self-modifying C-code and what the output would be. I said "one dead programmer - because if I ever met someone who wrote code like that I would shoot them dead for leaving such a mess".

Don't learn the fluff, the parameters, the options, the function names, the versions. Learn how to find them.
Excellent comment/question. I thought about going into the details of the refusal in the post but it was making the piece way too long. Also the reasons deteriorated the post from its original purpose.

Let me try an analogy here. I hope I do not miss the point because of cultural differences: I think he comes from a time where using typewriters at an office was perceived as the job of a female secretary. :-). A computer looks much like a typewriter from an outsider perceptive (a keyboard and monitor to look at instead of paper).
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I once knew someone who held pretty much the same view about screen editors vs. line editors.

[Edit: I'm rather fond of crutches for my mental weaknesses].
He wasn't shitting on the secretary, he was shitting on Adam by proxy.
Actually that example occured to me when I read the news. Schultz announced his plans to retire a period in advance, and yet died the day the last strip was published.
I think it's this: http://singinst.org/2011summerchallenge
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Microsoft lost to the web. And the ubiquity of the web is what made the iPhone and iPad viable.

So maybe Microsoft didn't have to lose, but they did, so I guess we'll never really know.
If everyone visits a restaurant every now and then, why don't waiters get any respect?

If everyone needs a house, why don't builders get any respect?

If everyone needs their streets clean, why don't cleaners get any respect?

If everyone's children need babysitting, why don't baby-sisters get any respect?

If you don't think you receive enough money and respect being a programmer, why don't you do s/t else, being a doctor or management consultant for example?

Why someone has to pay 500K for a job that s/he could hire a H1B person to do at 1/10th the rate?

Comparing job to job is like comparing orange to apple. Let the market decides how much software engineers should earn and are respected. If Adam Smith is correct, the market is pretty good at that.
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I have, but that just refers to using your own product, not building it for yourself.
There are so many variations because different people have different needs, and people will roll their own distros to suit their needs. If you want to pick one, go with debian or ubuntu. Both are relatively user friendly, widely used, and will give you a good taste of linux.
When he says brands, I think he means other companies, not your startup's branding.
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Yes, he just needed Gates' cash infusion to accomplish it.

I find it hilarious when people think Apple "won" and Microsoft "lost". Microsoft "won" twice.
It's a shame that Steve Job's leaving overshadows this. Slashdot has been a rock of the internet for 14 years, and I still regularly visit it. This paragraph is good:

In the last 14 years, Slashdot has covered so many amazing events: The explosion of Linux. The rise of Google. The return of Apple. The Dot Com Bubble. The DMCA. 9/11. Wars. Elections. Numerous successful Shuttle Launches and one Disaster. Scientific Breakthroughs galore. Cool toys. Web2.0! Social Networking. Blogging! Podcasting! Micro-Blogging! The Lord of the Rings being filmed and an entire trilogy of new Star Wars. OMG Ponies!! So many moments that I could run this paragraph for hours with moments where we shared something important, meaningful, or just stupid. But the most important to me was my marriage proposal to Kathleen. Slashdot has posted Over 114,000 stories so far. And there will be many more to come. I just won't be the one picking them.
Not sure why you were downvoted. These sound like some very interesting projects. Would love to hear more about where you are going with the web represenatation of geodata!
Sorry for such a late reply, but I agree in full. I really loathe using the Bloomberg Terminal, and I can't believe it hasn't been done better yet. I'm hoping someone recognizes that low-hanging fruit.
Ah, I see. Now his post makes a lot more sense to me. :)
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There are countless counter examples for this. Steve like everyone else may die (he just got operated twice for critical illness!), but I think you are reading too much in those examples.

Steve, does deserve "Steve time". I like how graceful Wozniak is, in his response.
He's definitely changed the gaming industry. Don't look at the platform, look at the developers. The nature of the iOS platform is giving indie developers some serious visibility that many might not otherwise have.
I tend to stick with IRC so I have no links. It has been difficult to change habits to using a site like stack overflow.
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Both demos worked beautifully for me in Firefox. Very impressed guys - well done!

Agree with DevX101 about the need for a video showing the programming process - I also looked for one.
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Interesting decision. In practice I don't think this will change a lot, because it's been years since Slashdot was primarily the personal project of Malda; from what I can tell, he's been "just another editor" and a bit withdrawn from the decision-making for a few years now. But I can see wanting to do something else.

For all its downsides, Slashdot is a quite interesting experiment imo.

In terms of form: It was one of the first (the first?) widely read tech blogs, in the sense of something that posted about technology in reverse chronological order, with a comments section below it (the comments section was even threaded). The idea of having users submit stories and write blurbs was also fairly novel, and has led to several different directions. Kuro5hin and MetaFilter took it in one direction, expanding from blurbs to more general kinds of article submissions (and Kuro5hin switched to voting rather than editorial curation), while Reddit/Digg/HN took it in the opposite direction, paring it down to link submissions with no blurb (again with voting).

In terms of content, imo it was a main way, especially in the late 90s, that a generation of tech people were introduced to things like the EFF, free software, problems of software patents, driver support for Linux, hardware hackability, and other such techno-liberty type things. Those predated Slashdot, of course, but it sort of crystallized a community on the web, alongside those that had previously been organized mainly around mailing lists, Usenet, etc. It also gained considerable mindshare for those ideas from a broader set of readers who weren't necessarily "activists".
That's a really good point. I'd also argue that you have to be right. His magic is high standards paired with amazing insight for what to build and how to motivate people. The most dangerous managers have strong convictions, micromanaging tendencies, but the wrong vision and focus. You can't bully other people into your perfectionism. You have to inspire them.
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APPL to go lower (than 3%)
Disclaimer: this is just for fun: I'm not putting myself up as a serious analyst.

That said... APPL is down 3% before opening. I reckon there's no way APPL only loses 3% on Steve Job's resignation. For the following reasons:

1/ how much does Steve's presence at keynotes etc., his legendary charisma and magnetism contribute to the Apple brand? I doubt it's quantifiable, but if you pick a number, I doubt it's under 3%.

2/ History: the last time Steve's hands came off the Apple wheel, things didn't end so well. The company became aimless and disjointed, nearly died. Granted, he will still be around (for the moment at least). Granted, Tim Cook has been de-facto ruler for the past year or so. Granted, the 'succession plan' has been in the works for a long time. But are we really ~97% sure that the new guy will have the same success as the old guy? Even ignoring this corporation's history. Are we REALLY that sure??

3/ This move is not 'factored in'...
well... maybe it is. As I say, I'm not an analyst or anything so I don't know. But this stock has been rocketing year after year: how could anyone know whether this development is truly factored in.

Seems to me a 3% drop does NOT reflect the new reality for APPL. Thoughts?
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I mostly try a framework to see what it can do. Looking at the documentation it seems like they are good enough to get me started.

Not sure what all these negative comments are doing here. Feels like half the people are asking for somebody to hold their penis and the other half is crying because they can't read Coffee-Script.
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I am working on Version 2 of BeerLedge.com. Now that Untappd has become more popular I am trying to work through some code where I can differentiate myself.

It started as an exercise to learn python (using the Flask micro-framework), but I have really fallen for the idea and love working on it.
Agreed. I would expect that a community like HN would be a little bit more impervious to marketing, but I guess that is just further testament to the legend of Steve Jobs.
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Me too. I am not a big apple fan (I stay away from most of their products for reasons I will not go into here), but this marks the end of an era.
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Didn't Microsoft sell their stake in aapl rather early?
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It's made its way into near-future SF. Some character in a novel by Ken Macleod, faced with a Plot Device disaster, says to a friend "I can't even get to Slashdot."
The difference between your example and the Steve Jobs anecdote is that one is backend and the other is customer facing. Getting all of the details right for the customer is paramount for him but I doubt he would fret over the minute details on the backend.
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> Don't ship a tablet computer yet.

How quickly we forget the Apple Newton.

Part of Jobs' legacy is also how well the company was able to bury and move on from missteps. For every company like Nintendo that recovers from a Virtual Boy, there's plenty of CueCats and click-of-death Zip drives.
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From the couple of videos, that thing looked very confusing (cool though, but confusing). I would doubt that we'd hear stories like the one posted about the Courier.
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I'm not going to argue further since Mithaldu has already made the points I'd make and in a much more coherent way than I would anyway, but I have to give it to you that

"Your post adds nothing to the conversation and makes people wish your computer would punch you in the face."

made me chuckle, and I will be adding this to my list of favorite internet insults.
Is there any evidence that being unable to do mental arithmetic has any correlation with understanding complicated mathematics?

That's a very good question. This question has not been studied as rigorously as it should have been. Here are some suggestive observations. Professor W. Stephen Wilson surveyed many colleagues (other research mathematicians) once to ask if they thought advanced mathematics could be learned without a basic understanding of arithmetic. The responses he received

http://www.math.jhu.edu/~wsw/ED/list

included comments such as "I am shocked that there is any issue here" and "That it is even slightly in doubt is strong evidence of very distorted curriculum decisions" and "One of my favorite attacks is that we are _helping_ the students by insisting that they do things by hand because otherwise they can waste a lot of time when the calculator would fail them." One especially thoughtful comment, by a mathematician who has long thought deeply about teaching mathematics, was "It might be argued that we do not really require students to fiercely add, subtract, multiply and divide in our university courses - which is true. But we do require an automatic understanding of these operations and why they work because WE BUILD FROM THERE."

The longer story about understanding arithmetic--REALLY understanding it--and how that relates to learning beyond arithmetic can be found in the book Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Liping Ma

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(well reviewed by two mathematicians who study mathematics education)

http://www.ams.org/notices/199908/rev-howe.pdf

http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/fall1999/amed1.pdf

A classic article on the subject is "Basic skills versus conceptual understanding: A bogus dichotomy in mathematics education"

http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/fall1999/wu.pdf

A recent effort to embody strong conceptual understanding of basic skills into a mathematics textbook is Prealgebra by Richard Rusczyk, David Patrick, and Ravi Boppana,

https://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/viewitem.php?item=...

which points to what young students should be able to do WITHOUT a calculator if they really understand mathematics well.

One example I know, related to me by an economics professor, is teaching a lecture on economics in which the professor (the one who told me this story) said, as part of a calculation, "20 percent," and then was interrupted by a student who asked, "You just said '20 percent,' but you wrote '.2' on the blackboard. Why did you do that?"
These certainly do exist, e.g. salesforce.com are huge.

However you touch on a point that hasn't yet been developed - you could innovate around actual service connection through a b2b social network. So exposing web services that could actually allow companies to place orders from suppliers or create projects they wish to go out to tender and the suppliers can bid on etc.

I would think you're much better off focusing on a niche market, if you can prove one exists. If not then start generic and iterate, honing in on a target market.

But be aware there are definitely competitors in this general area.
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