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Folklore.org seems to be down right now, but my favorite Steve Jobs exchange is the following:

We worked our way up to the front of the crowd to get a good look at the units [Osborne 1] that were on display. We started to ask one of the presenters a technical question, when we were suprised to see Adam Osborne himself standing a few feet from us, looking at our show badges, preempting the response.

"Oh, some Apple folks", he addressed us in a condescending tone, "What do you think? The Osborne 1 is going to outsell the Apple II by a factor of 10, don't you think so? What part of Apple do you work in?"

When we told him that we were on the Mac team, he started to chuckle. "The Macintosh, I heard about that. When are we going to get to see it? Well, go back and tell Steve Jobs that the Osborne 1 is going to outsell the Apple II and the Macintosh combined!"

So, after returning to Cupertino later that afternoon, we told Steve about our encounter with Adam Osborne. He smiled, with a sort of mock anger, and immediately grabbed the telephone on the spare desk in Bud's office, and called information for the number of the Osborne Computer Corporation. He dialed the number, but it was answered by a secretary.

"Hi, this is Steve Jobs. I'd like to speak with Adam Osborne."

The secretary informed Steve that Mr. Osborne was not available, and would not be back in the office until tomorrow morning. She asked Steve if he would like to leave a message.

"Yes", Steve replied. He paused for a second. "Here's my message. Tell Adam he's an asshole."

There was a long delay, as the secretary tried to figure out how to respond. Steve continued, "One more thing. I hear that Adam's curious about the Macintosh. Tell him that the Macintosh is so good that he's probably going to buy a few for his children even though it put his company out of business!"
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I would actually disagree. How many first-year undergrads did you see with a Blackberry or a Windows Mobile device in the pre-iPhone smartphone market? How many middle-aged couples on airplanes did you see with a Fujitsu tablet before the iPad? There were small business and enterprise smartphone and tablet markets before Apple entered them, but there sure weren't consumer markets for these categories.
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It has nothing to do with wanting exponentiation to be continuous. It's simply a recognition that limits of the form 0^0 are indeterminate, which means a convention that 0^0=1 is not appropriate in the context of evaluating limits. This isn't an argument that it "seems" incorrect, like your bizarre argument about real vs complex exponentiation; it's an argument that it IS incorrect in that context. If you're evaluating limits, you have to treat 0^0 as indeterminate, not as 1.

Even the original article noted that we don't choose the 0^0 convention because it's "correct", but because it's "nice" -- which is why we define it that way in the contexts where it makes sense to define it that way. If you're working with combinatorics, 0^0=1. If you're working with cardinal exponentiation, 0^0=1. If you're taking limits, or working in the hyperreals, or in certain other contexts, the convention doesn't apply. In some circumstances, 0^0 isn't even a valid statement -- like if you're working directly with the field axioms of R.

Recognize what context you're working in, and what assumptions or conventions apply in that context. That's just good mathematics.
I am female so not sure how well this would work for a man. FWIW:

I took gymnastics in my youth. I later read an article that described how runway models walk. Gymnasts and models both do the same thing:

Put one foot directly in front of the other (like walking on a balance beam) and when the left shoulder goes forward, the right hip should too and vice versa (right shoulder with left hip). This helps keep you stay balanced and it looks elegant.

There is a little more to it than that. That's the bits of I sometimes consciously think about if I want to really walk elegantly and confidently. I have reasonably good posture and balance and all that (edit: So I don't have to try too hard most of the time). Alternately, you could take martial arts for a while. Like gymnasts, martial artists have to keep their balance and learn to take a fall. These are actually related skills.

Best of luck.
This particular contradiction runs deep. The last bastion of unapologetic masculinity today is gangsta rap. A CEO is nothing if not competitive, a traditionally masculine trait. Yet a modern CEO must also be uber-PC. Thus the contrast.
What secrets? It feels like I'm reading the exact same design tips (alignment, fonts, colors) at least once per month on some blog linked from HN.
Thanks, Steve
Answering my own question: to protect the profits of American Big Pharma. Big Pharma gets to write the laws they want in DC.
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Amazing. I read the Dutch version also.

Funny that if you google this, you mostly find articles that says other wise :(
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I didn't know about batman either and I got the same impression when landing on the page. It took me a few clicks to get a handle of what it was.

Can I suggest that in the website header you include some sort of one-line description, like 'the javascript web application framework', or similar and more creative?
I thought I might find someone here actually.
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> "why don't we just agree that 0^0 = 1"

Because sometimes it's better not to. Sometimes it's inconsistent with our definitions.

Just like sometimes we agree that you can't divide by zero, and sometimes we agree that you can. Sometimes infinity is an actual value (say, in the extended reals), and sometimes it's just a symbol for "unbounded". Sometimes we agree that you can't take the square root of a negative number, and sometimes you can. Sometimes we use the axiom of choice, and sometimes we don't (and you can have an awful lot of fun either way!)

Mathematics is contextual. How various operations behave depends on which axioms and conventions are being used.
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"uncontained fragmentation"
It says it's for JavaScript, but I don't even know what language the code example is in. What is this?!

# Create our application and namespace.
class Alfred extends Batman.App
@global yes
@root 'todos#index'

# Define the principle Todo model with `body` and `isDone` attributes, and tell it to persist itself using Local Storage.
class Alfred.Todo extends Batman.Model
@global yes # global exposes this class on the global object, so you can access `Todo` directly.

@persist Batman.LocalStorage
@encode 'body', 'isDone'

body: ''
isDone: false
You're right that "fractal" is a bit sloppy here. It's always been a tawdry analogy when used like this that will annoy anyone who likes their words to have meaning.

But I think his underlying point is that Apple
consistently executes similar values and priorities in many different areas -- for a company of its size, it's amazingly coherent and consistent.

Compare them to HP, where the CEO kills an entire product division that their webpage is still breathlessly promoting for days afterwards, which makes it seem like no one knows what the hell is going on over there and that they don't really believe in anything they do. As soon as Apple announces something, its whole public persona is consistent with that. It's kind of amazing. At the very least, you can count on being consistently annoyed with their values.
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"The company is a fractal design. Simplicity, elegance, beauty, cleverness, humility. Directness. Truth."

lolwut?

I have deep respect for some of Apple's design leadership, but calling the company humble is pure fanboyism.

The "truth" part is also questionable. Apple's product announcements are usually gushing with superlatives, sometimes at the expense of accuracy:

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/03/steve-jobs-reality-di...
Right, I just read the comments below. There's no mention of CoffeeScript anywhere.

CoffeeScript is not JavaScript. If it's a JavaScript framework, please give code examples in JavaScript.
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His was a rare variant though, a neuroendocrine tumor, which can be treated surgically at times.
Although we had a great talk about it at JSConf, I don't remember if Shopify is using it in production yet ... Which bits of Shopify is it currently powering?
This isn't the kind of thing that can easily be communicated in text :-) you might find it worthwhile to join an improv group, where you can explore lots of different characters and get quick feedback on how well you embody them, but if something's not working then you can just drop it quickly and try a different character.

Self-consciousness is often the product of nerves. To help allay it, work at observing the people you meet - not to gauge their reaction to you, but to just understand them better. Give as much attention to the person who sells you coffee or whatever as to the person you want to invite on a date or sign a deal with.

Oh, and don't overlook the advice about the clothes. If you are wearing something that you know looks nice, then you'll get used to feeling comfortable when you dress.
The government probably had to communicate with Google via an impersonal form that resulted in a form response that didn't address the problem in any way and required filling out the form every single day for 2 weeks until giving up in frustration, then ultimately getting an email from an engineer 7 weeks later letting you know the problem has been solved.
That's because lots of people here have dropbox accounts. Very few authenticate via LDAP to a Lion server.

People are a lot more emotional about problems when they're personally affected.
I always thought that an interesting thing about Vista was that although it was widely seen as a horrible failure it wasn't actually highly buggy. It had horrible problems with performance and hardware compatibility, but the software itself didn't seem to contain glaring issues - at least if you calibrated your expectations to the perception of its quality by the market and end users.

On the other hand, Apple always nails the user experience - a release like Vista just wouldn't get out the door. But they let other horrendous quality problems through that would and should be caught by better process.

So it sort of illustrates two fairly orthogonal axes of quality and how different companies excel in different directions along those axes.
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How about the mouse driven desktop computer market?
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I'll go out on a limb and comment. I used to be a huge fan of their "Clearspace" product and it got steadily and consistently worse over the years. They seem like a good company, but man, their products went downhill.
would make a nice replacement for what is shown on an empty new tab in Chrome.
With the proliferation of buttons on most android phones I've seen, they could have easily added a hardware unlock button.
It was grand but Steve Jobs cannot be replaced
The Americans with Disabilities Act may not have much sympathy for the inconvenience of providing accessibility, though.
> Patent-holding plaintiffs won 63% of all infringement cases in Dusseldorf between 2006 and 2009, according to recent research by the Global IP Project, a series of studies initiated by the law firm Finnegan. That’s well above the global average of 35%

I'm surprised the global average is so low. I'd expect plaintiffs to win a significant majority of cases for the simple reason that plaintiffs are the ones that decide whether or not to sue.
I think you're well beyond optimistic and into wishful territory. Very, very few people are going to pay a 150% markup for their gadgetry because "it's local." You can't get people to pay a 100% markup on food, and that's going from four to eight bucks, not sixty to one-twenty.

And whoever owns all that big expensive fabrication hardware has to be able to keep the lights on. (Yeah, a lot of tools have come down in price, but most of them don't manage the same level of quality of output and now you're asking them to pay multiples of what they could get elsewhere, for lesser-quality stuff.)
Nice. Key elements at 2:30 - 1994 description of how tablets would be pervasive, image could be a (larger) iPad, and the statement that tablets would be for consumption and we may still use desktops for creating content.

It looks like it may have a slightly raised bezel around the screen, and it's a stylus based interface, but it's primarily a display in a rounded rectangle with a narrow black border, and it appears to lack other buttons.
I like it, and most of the advice is pretty good.

However, I have one concern- for the past few years, it seems all engineers and designers have been feeding off of each other's ideas, and this has resulted in websites that look nearly identical in color schemes, typeface, and wording.

This makes each successive product less and less distinguishable and boring. I think breaking free from design norms (as long as rules of simplicity are followed) is a good thing. It is what will make users think "wow, this is something I haven't seen before" and thus probably more likely to use it and tell others about it as well. Of course this assumes clever design sense which I believe is something people possess naturally and can't really be taught.
until now their cost structure and reliability put them into a very comfortable position

even given a lower launch cost, SpaceX has a long way to go to demonstrate similar reliability...which if thought of the right way can also affect launch costs. Sending up two slightly cheaper, more more unlreliable rockets instead of one slightly more reliable but a hair more expensive is not something many people would be willing to do.
Of course, but even that's a nontrivial task. OnLive's game machines target somewhere around "low-middle"; the quality isn't even console-level. They buy machines that are close to the first to be obsoleted by the upgrade march, so there'll always be the "damn, that plays like ass on OnLive" problem for new releases.

When you couple pretty poor quality with persistent, noticeable latency, you do not have a recipe for success.
Please, treat exponentiation just like every other function out there. I don't get the whole limit argument at all. Given any function f: R x R -> R, if it happens that a_n -> a, b_n -> b, but lim f(a_n, b_n) != f(a, b), people just say that f is not continuous in (a, b), and the case is over. However, if f happens to be exponentiation function, people instead argue that f should not be defined in (a, b), forgetting about the fact that the theorem which lets you take a limit of an argument instead of a limit of a function values works only under assumption that f is continuous in a proper point. Instead of noting that there's no contradiction because the assumptions are not satisfied, people just run away from it, declaring 0^0 as undefined.

From this point of view, the whole notion of "indeterminate form" makes just as little sense as distinguishing some arbitrary class of functions and calling them "elementary". Why are some points of discontinuity of some functions more special than other points of discontinuity of other functions? Why sin is more elementary than gamma? Historical heritage of confusion, I guess.
Good point. I guess I'm just hopeful the empire doesn't collapse, or if it does we don't lose sight of what a good tech company can be capable of producing (in terms of hard/software at least, itunes notwithstanding).
Amusingly enough, the new Deus Ex is a Steamworks game [http://steampowered.com/steamworks/retailsupport.php] and it requires Steam to be installed to play it.

Removing the OnLive coupon may hide one (small) competitor, but does nothing to stop GameStop's real competition in the PC space.
As a definitive answer is not available to us via mathematics, the real answer is that you can't give an exponent to nothing.

Sometimes you have to use another language to make sense of something.
So many of these remind me of Howard Roark, the architect in Ayn Rand's novel "The Fountainhead."

The idea of designing products for yourself, that YOU want, not for a committee and not for the masses - and of loyalty to the central idea of the product all the way through. The idea of a man who is religious about his work - but who is not actually religious. Building something in your own image - for Roark, it was actual buildings; for Jobs, as has been said, it was Apple.
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I am involved in a few nonprofit groups (as board member in one and volunteering in a few). All have a persistant problem: No money. So the thing to do is to beg/ask for money, which is not usually sustainable. These nonprofits do not have an sugar daddy's either to support them.

Lets take a strugling social service organization. Instead of asking for money, what if the org. helps two families, and then it present evidence of helping them, and then ask people to pay/sponsor/subsidize the money that cost the organization to help this family?

Is this the dummbest idea you have ever heard? If not, I'd love to hear your thoughts on coming up with an alternative to incessantly bug supporters for money.
But that's not what you said. You stated "but seriously gastro-pubs are silly, get some real restaurants people". I provided several excellent counterexamples.

You then state "All up scale restaurants are "real restaurants"". That's poor logic. Portland has real restaurants. Some of them are expensive.

You then state mid level restaurants in portland are almost entirely dedicated to gastro pubs. Do you want me to debunk that as well? Very well, I'd suggest you look at:

del inti (italian)
gilda's (italian)
doc (italian)
a cena (italian)
de carli (technically beaverton)

st. jack
vindalho
meriwether's
oba
etc.

Portland has a vibrant restaurant scene full of "real restaurants". It's not just high end. If you want more than gastropubs, seek out more than gastropubs.

To be fair, I wasn't that much a fan of the gastropubs in portland. A couple were ok (ned ludd and the victory were the only two i remember), but i've never been a big fan of gastropubs anyways....
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I, apparently in agreement with Apple's investors today, have a little trouble with the notion that Steve Jobs stepping down will have no effect on Apple's success.

I'm afraid the Apple faithful are playing a little fast and loose with logic on this one. Let me see if we have this straight...

1) Steve Jobs was absolutely and almost singularly responsible for Apple's meteoric rise over the last 14 years. His vision, his taste, his standards, his business acumen, all of it - has driven Apple past competitor after competitor to become the most valuable company in the world. [By the way, I agree.]

2) Steve Jobs is also completely unnecessary for Apple's continued success. [Hmmmm]

I think I can agree with Gruber's wisdom in choosing to prognosticate no further than a month. What made Apple remarkable is going away today. From here on out Apple will be as likely as the next company to blunder in the marketplace by playing it safe. You will not see Tim Cook do anything half as insane/brilliant as Jobs was capable of.
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I will gladly bet $100 on that Apple, without Steve Jobs' help, will create a new product in the coming decade that'll revolutionize

Maybe, but skeptics will probably be right to doubt it. Many had similar hopes as yours when Steve was fired from Apple in the '80s. The company ambled along for a few years, then started its famous nosedive.

Expect the same this time.
Now that is a winner's attitude.
Selling is about helping someone find a solution to a problem by finding the best product that fixes it (whether it's your own or someone else's).
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"Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices. "

yeah mmm okay, this article is biased.
I hate to break this to you, but all those development platforms referencing coffee are just a front. Most developers know nothing about good coffee, but it's hard to pitch things named after herbal tea or beer.

Seriously, one place to look is a restaurant supply store/website, and a lot of them trade in used gear. you may even find some on Craigslist. But lots of people think running a coffee shop is super simple and then go out of business within the first 6 months. Food service of any kind is a tough business with pretty unforgiving economics. It's going to cost you anywhere from $2-600 just to open your door to the street each day, so the additional cost of hiring someone who knows what they're at might actually work out cheaper than learning the hard way.

Illy was the brand they had in the diner where I used to cook years ago, but I couldn't tell you about a specific model. It's good enough that customers will see it as a mark of quality and that's because the design hasn't changed much over the last few decades. In return it takes longer to clean and you're more likely to get a steam burn if you don't maintain it properly. If you've got free or absurdly cheap rent, then just read up for a while and then wing it, but if you're trying to start a small business then I'd say hire someone or else get a job somewhere for 6 weeks so you can learn the basics. Best of luck.
I thought that the Slaughterhouse-Five reference at the end was appropriate. Stuff happens, we need to deal with it as best as we can and keep looking ahead. That's what Steve always does.
Apple, like all hi-tech companies, is constantly changing, adapting, finding new ways, dealing with change, innovation, etc.

"Technology is not changing [life] much — if at all." ~ Steve Jobs

Apple will still be Apple. Apple will: Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

And Apple will: Think different.

The one real change? No more Jobs' keynotes. I'm sad.
Sadly, every computer science major should know that going into patent law is one of the better bets.
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