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Thank you for being flawed enough that you failed to stop Android taking over the phone market, and thereby preventing the world from entering a technology dark ages where hardware and software ecosystems are locked down and controlled by huge corporations.
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I agree with you.....I am good at backend programming stuff, but the front end has boomed in recent times....you blink and you miss a new technology....
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Also, the zero-button 3rd gen shuffle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Shuffle#Third_generation). Though a minor goof, it didn't kill the product line and I don't know Jobs' involvement in it.

Jobs' success is inspiring because of his failure. In adversity we can identify with him and hope that we too may yet triumph.
The fact that you feel the need to disparage a man who, as part of a two-man team, charted the course for personal computing in the 1980's, workstation computing and CGI in the 1990's, and then went on to build the world's most valuable consumer electronics company – says more about you than it says about Steve Jobs. You might not like people who care about aesthetics, but I doubt you'd fare particularly well in a comparison test vs. Steve f-ing Jobs. Talk about a lack of perspective!
I just spent a good hour of my life on this site and I don't regret it. Thanks for making this.
What would you say the pros/cons are of Javascript + JQuery vs. let's say Ruby on Rails or Grails?

I understand JS is here to stay a long time, but for rapid development, ROR seems progressive. Correct me if I am wrong.
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It could actually be that Steve's health has not changed radically but it's a move he needed to make sooner or later and he has huge confidence in the upcoming product cycle to cement Tim's new role.
Also, if there is high churn on those outgoing connections, then the problem is a little worse. The connections per second will be much lower than 60k, because of the timeout before the port number is reused for a new connection. Although, this timeout can be tuned.
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No, no – I didn't mean to suggest that altruism isn't alive and well! My point was that giving is an end unto itself – not a means to establishing a legacy. Also, I just wanted to point out that it takes a LOT of work to manage a big fortune. It's a huge responsibility.
$500m would be more than sufficient to do all of those things you've outlined. If you can put up 25% (random percent) of the money then you'd be able to get investors to put in the rest. Only a nut would invest the entire amount themselves.

But that aside, we're talking here about quality of life which does not equal being able to pay for the craziest most expensive ideas that you can come up with.
How does Aruba's AP compare to Ruckus Wireless ? Does anybody know what their pricing is ?

For a 5000 sq.ft office, would people recommend Aruba/Ruckus or a couple of cheap DLink/Buffalo wifi routers running WDS ?
Ever since I started seeing QR codes I, admittedly with a lack of interest anyway, just assumed that the iPhone/Android/Blackberry cameras all automatically detect the code and act on it in the built-in camera app, since it seemed like such a standard. It was disappointing to learn that wasn't really the case, and there's a bunch of competing third-party apps for doing it. It's amazing that it's gotten as far as it has without any large companies pushing it (that I'm aware of).

edit-

I should also add, I've never seen a person scanning one.
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A quick follow up:

In all reality, let's say someone were to build "simple" web applications.....by which I mean...a twitter clone etc., would it really make that big of a difference if I chose Clojure or PHP vs. ROR.

Maybe I am ignorant about the nuances of these platforms, but from a birds eye view, they all look able to perform the same tasks.
It's upside down to you because it's on the back side of the LCD panel- if it were the right way facing you, then it would just be upside down when you use your computer, which just looks silly ಠ_ಠ
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Maybe he was hoping one of you would be the next George Dantzig. http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp
Taking credit cards is hard. You get random declines from merchant banks all the time. I bet the app store simply doesn't tell you about it.
Not a single decline in 15 months? Hardly likely. 20% of all attempted virtual purchases bouncing sounds not unreasonable if you compare to other markets (pc, game credits, etc)
Exactly. Apple seems to have no problem whatsoever hiring the best and brightest. In fact, I'd say it's what they do best, which is saying a lot.
I finished the book a few months ago, and yes that is the main reason.

I wanted to test the whole finished stack using only my components so I did run it using only what I built. It ran but was around 10x slower, mainly the graphics tests. I did optimise the performance of the basic drawing algorithms using faster ones but, naturally, it was still much slower than the java implementation.

Another advantage of using your built components is that it helped me uncover some bugs which I only noticed when you ran something as complex as the pong example.
If you think Apple is about getting things for cheaper, then you don't understand Apple AT ALL.
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>Apple's branding and advertising tends to exhibit a similar focus on how their products will improve your status, rather than on the capabilities of the actual hard/software.

When I look at Apple's ads (especially the latest crop of iPad ones), I see them showing families getting closer, students learning better, people enjoying their pastimes, etc.

In a nutshell, technology enhancing peoples' lives and not just technology for the sake of it.

That's quite different from just "improving social status" in my opinion.
It really is true. From my time in the British education system, I can honestly say there have only been very few instances where a teacher inspired me and ignited my interest. This shouldn't be the case. Every teacher should do that.

Most teachers, however, are only interested in one thing: passing tests. The goal of what they teach is not to build a foundation for future education, that's only really secondary. The primary goal is to pass what ever test it is that you must take at the end of the year. After all, the test tests the foundation right? sigh

The reason why teachers do this is simple really. If kids don't pass tests, they get fired. It's a constant fear. So teachers in the UK have been boiled down to "These kids must pass the test or I will get fired".

I.T was especially bad. I don't even think the teachers were THAT competent on a computer. In one class, I remember suggesting encryption as a way to secure your computer and the teacher told the class the rest of the class encryption was password masking (where your characters are hidden by asterisks). The only programming I ever did was in my own time or maybe some horrendous chain of conditionals in Excel in said IT class. Computing only becomes available when you reach college and even then it's an option which most people don't take.

To be fairly honest with you, I only knew about programming because of my mother, who took a course on BASIC in the 80s. In my 13 years of compulsory British education I never really heard about computer programming.

The problem is that it'd be quite difficult and wrong to expose children to programming in education with the current mentality. Can you really imagine what it'd be like if children were taught how to code just to pass a test? No I think that wouldn't do any good. The deeper issues in education would do well to be fixed first, namely igniting interest and not hammering a bunch of facts into memory.
His comment is not about Steve Jobs. It's about this ridiculous tendency of people to form cults around people.
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They just need to stop requiring pointless proprietary extensions to IPSEC, and add support for the open source stacks.
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@Steko: I saw a supposedly new, and saddening, photo of Steve Jobs in which he looks emaciated. Maybe it is the way he is dressed that makes him look so much worse than what we are used to.

I found the photo: http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/08/26/0826-steve-jobs-02pcn-cre...
Disclaimer: I'm a guy who wrote a QR-URL-shortener during a sabbatical on a beach in mexico, it was awesome

i run the QR-URL-shortener http://miniqr.com/ (which we had way before goo.gl and bit.ly implemented this as a feature) - and also offer a webcam based QR code reader http://miniqr.com/reader.php - and after 2 years of watching the data and talking with QR code creators and users

- QR-codes fullfil a need of the publishers: making the conversions from print (magazines, poster, ...) campaigns trackable

- QR-codes in print do not fullfil a need of the user

- a kind of QR codes which get repeated onine views are links to the android app store and some v-cards (addresses + phone numbers)

so, desktop to mobile, yes kinda, print to mobile, i have my doubts.

so yeah, anyways: http://miniqr.com is for sale (and cheap) i will focus my energies elsewhere
Oh. Well, looks like I was stupid on the Internet again.
I don't agree with the comment you're replying to, but if we all had to be equals to the icons we criticize... the online world of commentary, discussion, and blogs would cease to exist. I'm not American, but it would be like not being able to criticize the president without someone saying "see how you'd fare in a comparison against Barack O-f-ing-Bama".
I bet at least 50% of failures are customers trying to use someone else's card, or habitual charge-backers. What is the experience for each channel 90 days in when actual chargebacks start hitting?
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This was a timely article as I recently had a fun time playing devil's advocate regarding QR codes in a friend's start up idea. She insists that they are a useful, convenient, and a big trend. I countered that they require too much effort and precision to be mainstream in their current incarnation. While the promised convenience sounds great (which was basically her argument), the current implementation does not live up to that promise.

While in Las Vegas, recently, she mentioned that she went to an art gallery that had QR codes on the placards for paintings that were for sale. One could scan the code and be taken to the gallery's website where you could then purchase a print. Prints cost in the range of a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Who goes to an art gallery in Las Vegas to walk out with a few bookmarks so they can spend a thousand dollars at home? It's a use case with lots of cool factor and wouldn't-it-be-awesome-if's, but that does not pan out with real, normal humans.

I was at Google IO this past May with 5,000 other nerds. I spent much of the time walking around, talking to people, and figuring out whose brain I wanted to pick further. On our admission badge was a QR code that attendees could opt-in to having all your contact information on using a checkbox on the Google IO registration page. I had opted in for this. What do you think the primary method of exchanging contact info was that weekend?

You guessed it.

Business cards. Only one person asked to scan my QR code, but this was after he asked for my business card first (I ran out). The rest of time, I logged email addresses and names in my phone or wrote my name and email on a piece of paper.

QR codes are a flop. I know this because I was in a room with 5,000 fellow nerds for a weekend, in 2011, and almost none of us cared to use it.

How can you be the hot new tech if the nerds don't care to use you?
Read the book, finished it a few months ago.

Each chapter is usually covered by one course in a CS degree(more or less), but each one has a very specific goal and so focuses only on that.

As an example, the OS chapter doesn't actually build an OS. Just a few basic functions that allows you to build more meaningful programs in jack(the lang you build a compiler for). So a simple memory allocator, some basic math functions, a string class and so on.

The compiler chapter hardly mentions any theory about grammars and instead focuses on why a certain step is needed and how it fits in with the overall plan of building the project.

Even with a CS degree, I found it useful and, more importantly, enjoyable.
They should know what they are because they use them every day. It's like a racecar driver not knowing the difference between an axle and a wheel, he doesn't have to know how to make them or even fix them, but he should damn well know what they're called. Understanding this issue is fundamental to understanding Unix, and is also a superb way of introducing some classical IPC methods. Last I checked most schools still devote a required class or two to the subjects but somehow it fails to work a good deal of the time.

"The rationale for the differences between them are mainly historical and not really a good design."

The separation of shell, a terminal emulator, and a psuedo-terminal is bad design? Really? I would love to see a rationalization for that. EDIT: Or downvotes will work fine as well I suppose.
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If you want to program a VM and have some fun at the same time, do the 2006 ICFP contest: http://www.boundvariable.org/task.shtml

You have to implement a VM and run the provided program. This will give you access to the actual problem set.
Would you rather compromise your design aesthetic with a URL (typeset even) or a massive graphic? http://whatever.com or http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300...

Your conversion will be crap regardless. You'll get more through organic search.
i'm tired of all that apple shit in my rss feed.
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If people just made sure to use the correct vocabulary, the issue would be a non-issue. I doubt there is a single person out there that 1) might encounter a terminal emulator, and 2) doesn't get that a VT102 actually existed from the name terminal emulator.

You have laymen with emulators on their telephones. It shouldn't be a hard concept to teach.
if you wanna see people scanning QR codes, look no further, there is a website for that: http://replycam.com/browse.php
Here's what I don't get about QR codes: why not just use URLs and OCR them? OCR seems to be pretty good these days, and you could always print the URL with a font of your choice (e.g. pick something easy to OCR).

And you get this cool feature ... humans can read them, too.
We have a few at the office. I've never noticed any network issues and we have a good 20 geeks all in the same room often streaming video. Each with multiple wifi devices.

In addition our net admin swears by them. Thinks they are the best thing since sliced bread.
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Android is the Modern day Nokia. Android's marketshare is WORTHLESS.

Android is nothing but a 2nd rate copycat mobile OS from an evil corporation whose main goal is to steal user data and serve us shitty ads. Google is devoid of morals, ethics and taste. They sell ads for chrissakes! They're as low in the totem pole as used car salesmen!

Android is nothing without iOS. NOTHING. Google is being sued left and right because they are nothing but a bunch of COPYCAT ONE-TRICK PONY.

....and let me just say that Larry Page is an UGLY horse tooth jackass. And Andy Rubin looks like the retarded gay lover of Elton John.
But how do you know you can scan it in the first place?
the only thing you can do is tell them to try again at a later date. The problem is squarely in Google's hands so there isn't much you can do.
i'm fucking tired of all that steevie bullshit.
stop, please, stop.
wow that's pretty brilliant. I'll have to look into this.
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i was at the beach a couple weeks ago, and a couple of volunteers with an organization that test local beaches for water safety came by and told me about their iphone/android app. i mostly listened politely, ignoring everything they said because there was no way i was going to search the app store for their app and install it when they handed me a card with a QR code on it. scanning it installed their app on my phone. i don't know that it made my life better, but it certainly removed a lot of friction in getting me to install their app.
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Hahah wow. They seem to mostly be indoor shots. I guess I've just never seen anyone scanning one on a billboard or in a magazine in public.
I've notice I've been using my business cards less and less over the years. Nowadays, it's more common for me to have the other people simply type-in their information directly into my iPhone.
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Is there a single laptop where the logo is upside down from the observer's perspective?
There's a lot that's wrong with this article (or if not wrong nit-picky at the very least). Off the top of my head...

1. You can't really blame Jobs for the Apple III. His focus had already shifted to the Lisa/Mac side of things. Apple III was a business decision made to compete with the IBM PC and extend the Apple II's reach into the office. But Jobs wasn't directly involved with the project nor was he CEO at the time of its creation.

2. Jobs does deserve some blame for the Lisa but he also realized it had become a debacle. He was forced out of the project before it reached market and started focusing on the Mac. So you can't really blame him for the finished product (accounts I've read have varied as far as what Jobs' problem with Lisa was).

3. NeXT was a business failure during its life but it did lure Apple to purchase the company. So it was a success in the end. There are plenty of startups who are considered successes when they are bought out by Google, Facebook or whoever so I don't see how NeXT wouldn't be considered an eventual success.

4. On the Puck Mouse and the Cube you can't have it both ways. The puck mouse sucked design wise but sold like crazy (as part of the iMac). The Cube didn't sell well but was praised for its superior design. Calling both a failure is just looking for ways to nitpick.

5. The iTunes Phone had very little to do with Apple. It was a deal they made with Motorola to allow a Motorola product to sync with iTunes.

6. Apple TV's first version was rocky. But as someone who "cut the chord" from my Cable company and uses Apple TV exclusively now I can tell you it improved very quickly.
That photo is faked moron.
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The point is that when you're actually using your Macbook, you do not see the back of it. It makes more sense for it to be right side up when open so that everyone else sees it the proper way instead of right side up when closed and in the process of opening when the only person seeing it is you.

It's just one more example of design that makes sense.
jQuery is Javascript; both of which run client side in the browser. Recently, a language called node.js has taken javascript to the backend as well (minus jQuery).

Javascript is used in conjunction with ROR. All of the cool visual effects you see on webpages (and AJAX requests) are entirely javascript.

Your real question should be: should I use ROR, node.js, PHP, or python for the backend. The answer: it depends on what you're building.

PHP is great for speed & reliability. It is not nearly as easy to snap in pieces of code like Rails & gems (which can be a huge downfall). It also doesn't enforce strict code organization & etiquette. If you choose PHP, make sure you're familiar with MVC and the separation of your code and your site HTML.

If you want to have real time stuff in your applications (chat, notifications, etc), use node.js. node is also very fast & scalable. It is entirely server side javascript (which is nice, because then you're writing in the same language for client side and server side).

Rails makes web development easy. There are tons of fantastic gems out there that do the heavy lifting for you. In my opinion, this is ROR's strongest piece. Rails is also pretty fast for a framework, although straight PHP and node will smoke the crap out of it every day of the week. Basically, you pay a (IMO) very small price for a ton of saved development time.

I don't have a ton of experience with Python & Django, but I've heard good things about it. Rails seems to have more traction, so if you're going for a web framework, I would advise you to choose Rails. That being said, Python's twisted framework is pretty sweet for real time stuff (especially chat). Python is also incredibly fast (on par with node & PHP).

I hope this helps you choose your first language. You can always mix and match these languages to accomplish multiple goals (I use PHP, node & Rails at my current startup). Good luck sir!
Here I'll give you a "real world hyperlink": print the damn URL in English so that I can remember it if I don't have my phone handy. If you're running a print ad you can afford a short snappy URL. Bonus, I can even use it on my laptop that doesn't have a QR code app! Or any other browser for that matter!

The main problem I have with QR codes is that humans can't read them. Therefore, they will be relegated forever to the sphere of computerish heiroglyphics that normal people will always ignore, because they have no obvious real world relevance. By way of contrast, most of the old EAN barcodes have the number printed under them, so a human can see what they encode when the barcode scanner breaks. QR codes, not so easy.

As suggested by another commenter, decide on some way of making the URL easy to OCR, perhaps by surrounding it with targeting sentinels and using a standard font. I mean, if Google Goggles can OCR text on a menu or poster in real time... a QR code is just making things complicated.

Also, let me tell you this really great joke: CueCat.
> It could also be that they just aren't being implemented in a very intelligent way that makes them easy for people (or that the nerds are wrong–gasp! :)

I agree. They are not implemented in an intelligent way which makes them clumsy and painful to use.

My point about nerds is that us nerds are much more likely to live with pain to use fun, new tech. And as far as my experience from Google IO and my day-to-day work life, it doesn't seem to be the case here.
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