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This.

Math is a tool (and sometimes abused for pure pleasure, 200 years later applied to make hard crypto work). If your definition doesn't make sense for the application, fix your definition and get over it.

Another example I've recently often bitched about in discussions is modern measure theory and its application to probability calculations. People just don't get the concept of theorytically possible event, but probability 0, i.e. ignore this. But without Lebesgue integration L_p function spaces are not complete and an awful lot of stuff stops to work properly. Among them essentially all of modern physics.

The sane approach is to get over the "this doesn't make intuitive sense" bitchering and just use defintions to derive useful results. And after a few years of playing around with stuff and applying the un-intuitive definition, it's becoming intuitive ;-)
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Apple aren't even trying to make it hard to leave their platforms, they're trying to make you not want to leave them.
That's what the parent poster meant with "it's necessary to make the algebra of powers work out".
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Here's a good BBC article that covers much of the same ground (but which probably had more people look it over before publication):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13022524
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YES. THERE IS A GOD. /irony
Jobs has said that Microsoft won the PC wars, and Apple should work on the next great thing.

The logical, disruptive evolution of the iPad is for it to improve until it meets the needs of PC users - and then replace it.
Production reports of the next iPad (iPad 3) indicate it uses the retina display (a logical progression), with a resolution of 2048x1536 - putting it a step beyond the mainstream desktop. A quad-core A6 CPU is also a logical increment, putting it on par with a mainstream PC. http://www.macvideo.tv/distribution/news/index.cfm?newsId=32...

This would complete Jobs' journey from creating the PC, to losing the PC, to replacing the PC. A great end of a career; a great time for a biography. And something you would really love to see happen in your lifetime.
Your example doesn't compare to Vic's post in the same way you intend to. Vic clearly states that

But in the end, when I think about leadership, passion and attention to detail, I think back to the call I received from Steve Jobs on a Sunday morning in January.

Steve is not Vic's boss but only that Vic had regular dealings with Steve. In this case too its clearly reflects in the post that Steve is not bossing Vic to do a job himself. He is assigning someone from his team to fix the issue who has to work with Vic.

Its something like a Painter who has build up a reputation over the years through his paintings because of which people view him with a very high regard.

I have a cousin who I view in a very high regard when it comes to photography. I listen to him when he says something about photography and sometimes it takes me a few months to apply some of his imparted knowledge which he said casually as one-liners. It wasn't always like that. He built up that reputation through his work over the years.

If I ever get a call from my cousin about a photo I took and he suggests something about it, I'll be all ears and would be eager to include his suggestion the next time I try taking a similar photo.
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I got a lot of good feedback on the bookmarklet, and was hoping to get some constructive feedback on the site. Since everyone loves YC here, I've shared the list of Best Y Combinator S11 companies, which you can vote on and review.

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It covers Iceland as well.
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There's more than just GNU make, autotools is a mess as well and the coreutils code has many features but the code is still a nightmare to look at.. GNU doesn't really have a great track record for readable or extendable code but I guess this is due to the age as well.
Sure, I'll break it down: batman.js is a JavaScript framework for rich JavaScript applications. It's designed to make development as fast and as painless as possible for developers and designers while giving them lots of power.

Still nada. What does it actually do? A framework for doing what w.r.t. rich JavaScript applications? Is this like Cappuccino? How does this "make development as fast and as painless as possible for developers and designers while giving them lots of power"?
Are you the same psykotic who was on EFNet in the past? I forgot where, but it may have been the #webdesign channel
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The simplistic conclusion is to blame it on people hacking for lols. The more troubling thought is that someone malicious and methodical had taken control of their routers secretly for an unknown amount of time and only caused damage when they thought they'd got enough of what they wanted or were in danger of being found out.

As you say that second rabbit hole could go pretty deep.
NO WAY.
Exactly, this is a perfect application of Jobs' quote from the '80s about how a carpenter wouldn't put a piece of plywood on the back of a cabinet, even it was just going to face the wall.
I kind of agree. But that's still micromanaging.
Even though Steve's micromanaging seems to be excellent, it still will fire back at some point. That point might be now.
You're thinking of #flipCode and the network was EnterTheGame.
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I don't like the closedness of iPhone and iPads, I prefer the more open platforms, like Android. But I deeply regret Steve Jobs leaving, he is a visionary, he did a lot of things for which he has my respect.
This seems a little dangerous. Does this seem like monetizing fanfiction containing copyrighted characters in a non-direct way to anyone else?

I do like the story so far, and I'd hate for it to go poof because of legal issues.
Ask HN: API design practices
Hi HN,

I'm currently designing a couple of web services (1 will be for public use, another is mainly for mobile integration with an app I am developing but with possibility of opening it up for public consumption depending on what my client says).

Are there any resources from which I can read up on web design best practices/patterns? For example, how to handle versioning (compatibility between client and api). StackOverflow released an article documenting some of the lessons they learnt and they are fixing for the next version; more of this would be nice.

Essentially, what I am looking for is a checklist of things a Web Service API should have.

Regards,
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Hasn't this been written about many, many times? How restaurants/bars/everywhere-else-on-earth realise people do this, so put an item with a higher profit margin in this spot?
Thanks, that makes more sense. The article gave a different impression:

> The British government threatened to freeze Icelander savings and checking accounts.

Unless I'm totally daft, this is saying the British government was threatening to freeze UK-based bank accounts of individual Icelanders. Chalk up another factual inaccuracy. I'm not well versed in this stuff, so it's a really bad sign when I can stumble over errors and inaccuracies in damn near every other paragraph.
Thanks. That's very good info.
Neither have I. The UK formally switched to the short scale (aka "American billions") forty years ago, so you wouldn't really expect to any more. I don't know why this rumour of Britain still using the long scale still perpetuates.
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It used to happen, years back, but has indeed become obsolete. (it was 10^12 ie a million million). WHen I was a kid there was confusion...
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Thanks for the info. I don't think I can do long hour restaurant operation.
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You switched in 1974.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
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Like some might say: "it's a nice problem to have"... some of us are working night an day towards a happy future dilemma of paying technical debt against a valuable product
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Steve Jobs doesn't think so. Have you seen the insides of Apple products? They're as beautiful as the outsides of competitors' products.
All the best Steve. Still want to see you on stage at the launch of iPhone 5
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Yeah, awesome. He gets revenge on a fairly standard sales competitor by stomping on the little person. Ha ha, Osborne acted like a person with vision by being condescending, what an asshole, but Jobs, acting like a person of vision, was inspired and lively! So what if he shat on a secretary!

This anecdote is just another flavour of "The winners get to write the histories".
The opinion of the general public is important. That's how trademarks are genericised and lost. (and yes I meant punter, Damn you autocorrect)
I have not created AI, just a simple no-cheat computer technique for mysticism. I guess some would sooner believe AI was invented than the rather old-news notion that God exists and talks.

My program just extracts vocabularies of words with no statistical weights or anything. It doesn't process grammar or anything -- just collects a list of words.

Cracking-open a book randomly is just as good. The secret is you have to hold-up your end of the conversation... and I suppose you have to get the knack for interpreting.

God says, "C:\TEXT\Brief\skeptics.txt

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That was actually a quote of someone else's random words. Here's my random words, "vouchsafed breadth Continual ostentation Foundation haunt
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Only the release timeline would change, by a few days, not the writing or the releasing at all. But I am not a "copyright" lawyer.
being an "asshole" helps

you just have to be a COMPASSIONATE "asshole"
That's one thing that seems to be missing in general, is the appreciation that while Jobs is a pretty awesome person and has engendered a powerful culture at Apple, it takes more than one person to come up with quality goods at that scale.
Not commenting about something specific related to this post, but people are always riding coattails, consciously or subconsciously. Karma whoring, link baiting, name dropping- they may sound cruel, but almost all of us do that subconsciously, if not deliberately.
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not if your boss saved a multi billion $ business from bankruptcy and converted it into the most valuable company in the US

Note that such achievements are not mutually exclusive with batshit nuttery. See Howard Hughes, for instance.
Perhaps in the fantasy in our heads. But in real life, pirates are desperate people, usually repeatedly risking their lives in order to stay alive. In comparison, all the people I know in the navy absolutely love it - they like the life, they absolutely love the travelling from port to port, cameraderie, high tech playtoys, so on and so forth.
All I know is that locking and unlocking a phone used to be a problem for some people, and they no longer have a problem with Apple's solution. I don't care what you call it, my mom can actually use this version of locking and unlocking her phone without remembering some cryptic combination of keys on the keypad.
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You may be interested in the discussion from the last time this was submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2898569

Related discussions can be found with this search:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=transputer

In particular, in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2898667 I wrote:

I used to program a 96-processor machine. It could do
what were for the time some quite amazing things in
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Very cool, very advanced, and no one seemed to "get it."

But it was impossible to get programmers to understand
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sometimes hundreds of times faster. It was a solution
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I learned a lot from that project, some of which is
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Not specifically about web service APIs, but you might enjoy this talk by Joshua Bloch [1]:

"How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bloch
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Did some digging about Adam Osborne. Made me quite sad for him...

It seems he was a failed (relatively speaking) genius. He is credited with building the first computer for people. Also was briefly considered a contemporary of Bill G and Steve Jobs:

"on April 3rd, 1981 when a startup called Osborne Computer Corporation announced the Osborne 1 at the West Coast Computer Faire at San Francisco’s Brooks Hall. It was the first true mass-produced portable PC and one of the most popular computers of its time"
(Source: http://technologizer.com/2011/04/01/osborne-computer/)

He also:
"he founded another company that also collapsed–but not before helping to pioneer the idea of really cheap software"

He later died in India at the age of 64, in 2003. Where he was born and educated when he was a very young.
It happens that when you build respect by demonstrating excellence in your work yourself. You can get far more work done even without saying anything.

Not a long time ago, I worked under a manager. At that time during the start of the project, we had to learn a lot of new technologies to get started. One of the technologies was Perl. Now typically managers leave it to the developers to do all this. But not with this manager, before asking anybody learn it, he took a a week's holiday. When he was back next week, he called for a meeting and started training all the junior guys. And demonstrated what he expected from everybody by doing it himself. His motto was simple, he would never demand from others at work what he couldn't give himself.

He ensured we got know everything that was required. Anytime we were stuck, he would personally ensure we were unblocked. He worked, conducted meetings, did his managerial duties and still wrote programs with us. He would stay with us, if things went on late in the night. He would sweat with us.

Net result, whenever a request came from him we would do it no matter what it took.

At the very same time, I have also worked under extremely arrogant people with no clue about management and seen how things go. No plans at hand, no ways to measure and track. Assign work, and come after a month or so and just pick up fight with developers for simple issues just to assert authority. Fight and demoralize people until you have ensured you get the feeling that you have the developer feel that you are the boss. When people make mistakes you are supposed to counsel them, not demoralize and abuse them to assert authority and get job done by force.

Now what respect would such people command, even their legitimate demands are looked in a negative angle.

Its all about how you deal with people, people skills are a requisite for every job that requires dealing with people in a way or the other.
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Of all the workarounds, this is probably the best option because it will still allow ranges to function.

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I think he meant it more in the context of olden times, where neither pirates nor navy had "high tech playtoys" and piracy was a little more common than today
Exactly. It's estimated that out of a eight-hour day only four hours of actual work gets done. I can easily believe that figure. The other four hours get dissolved into various events and distractions, including coding something that nobody asked but you just have to do so that you can do something else better and easier.
Exactly, it's the kind of free pass that celebrities good at something typically get. "Yeah he's a bit {arrogant|rowdy|quirky|..} but (s)he's one of the best {football players|pop singers|CEOs|..} in the world so we can live with that". Case in point, Maradona.
I'm not sure about "a software company" but in the case of Microsoft one could argue that as a non-programmer Steve Ballmer hasn't done that well. Although to be fair I'm not sure if that's his real problem. As a geek I would have like to have seen Ray Ozzie become CEO of Microsoft, but alas that day won't come.