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Apple will be fine for the next 5 years. The iPhone, iPad, MacBooks, iMacs, etc. will carry them and their revenue. They probably have a few new products ready to release within a year as well, maybe TV or something else. The next 5 years I don't see them stalling. The iPhone and iPad have too much momentum. But the big question is from year 6 to 10. Apple needs a product leader, someone who will lead the whole company to rally around the latest and greatest new apple product. Hopefully Tim Cook can fit into that role, with help from Ive, Schiller, and others. Another hopeful note is the leadership institute Jobs has set up inside Apple with ex-business school profs archiving all of Jobs exploits and training then next generation of leaders. However, I think really nobody really knows what Apple will be like from year 6 to 10. But I'll be rooting for Apple and hope they continue to make revolutionary products.
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Would it be impossible to make email spam illegal?

Why was it possible to make SMS spam, but not email, illegal?
Ah, yes, health care- the "other white meat" of stable job fields. :-)

And I'm glad you decided to check the place out in spite of negative posts!
Gruber at his best. I get the feeling that he's had large pieces of this particular post in the works for quite some time.
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Well one perspective from the sick persons point of view, "The entire resources of the universe should be spent on keeping me alive". If you decide that there is something wrong with this, you need a strategy to allocate the resources. Then you've got a cost/benefit analysis.
This one always gets me. It's such a powerful moment.
During the time I've read HN I haven't once seen posts get this poetic and sentimental. I wonder what's it like on the Apple side of things.
Sure PC gaming is bigger than '96 but what's the growth compared to expected growth?

Consoles obviously took massive amount of the market. PC hardware is still expensive if you want to play the new games, some games don't even bother release PC versions any more. But there's a hardcore gaming community and there are certain types of games that still suck in consoles. Even this is clear indication that PC gaming is dying, or will be a niche rather than a main stream thing.
>The best salespeople always listen much more than they talk //

Hmm, I don't know. I think such salespeople may be the ones favoured by the crowd here. Though not exclusively, others have mentioned those that attempt to educate you as being better (IMO that means they're talking more, answering your questions).

I'm not prepared to accept thought that being more likeable translates to better sales figures in general without some hard evidence.

Do companies turn down the best financial offer because the salesperson is a pillock? Can't see it happening much unfortunately.
Kiva is a small non-profit of about 70 employees. Not only do we have 20% time, we have it as a full 2-week iteration where we can work on anything we want. It's awesome.
For the interest - video of the Knight Ridder Newspad (from 1994!), that was used as a prior design by the court. Very interesting, if a little too talkative

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBEtPQDQNcI
He changed how normal people viewed technology.

That's much more important than the volatile numbers made up by Wall Street.
Even though the name is creepy, I'd suggest you test it against other names. It is a memorable name.
I have to agree. It's been awhile since I've read something like this from him. Well-chosen words throughout the whole post.
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> [The] crucial decisions haven't been "do this" so much as they have been "don't do this, don't do that."

Miles Davis' players often commented that he never told them what to play, but he'd frequently tell them what not to play. Much more effective for building anything great.
I am very very saddened too!...i wonder if we will see another such great artist and visionary in our lifetimes!
Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.

True.
Thanks. Sorry 'bout that; I only tried Google Scholar.
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.

We designed everything around a number of primary goals such as convention over configuration, HTML-based views, and the principle of least surprise. This is something we're using at Shopify in our future projects, so it's meeting those goals while coming out of real work.

If you want more info, the features page (http://batmanjs.org/features.html) has a list of everything we're trying to do, and the examples page (http://batmanjs.org/examples.html) has a few usage examples. There's still only a couple, but I'm working as quickly as possible to build out the gallery.

And of course, let me know if there's anything else I can answer about the framework. I hope that helped clear it up a bit, though!
Just because something is illegal doesn't mean that it is evil. Google paid $500 million because of "its improper advertising practices with regard to these pharmacies". There's no indication that they tried to trick people or steal from them. Though they may have, the DOJ site doesn't indicate this, so I'm assuming that they're being punished for helping Canadian prescription drug-sellers connect more effectively with customers. If they violated US law, they should be fined, but it's a reach to call this evil.

It's unfortunate that Gruber continues to beat the "Don't be evil, Google." horse; it's getting old.
I have posted this a few days back, but I guess in the context of persistance. He indeed did wait for the next big thing.

Rumelt congratulated Jobs on the turnaround but expressed skepticism about Apple’s chances of overcoming the Windows-Intel lock on personal computers. “What are you going to do in the longer term?” Rumelt asked. “What’s the strategy?” Jobs, he recalls, “just smiled and said, ‘I am going to wait for the next big thing.’”
It's not a terrible list, but it's very biased towards the question "how should we structure computer programs?".

This is a good question, but perhaps not the _only_ question, and I'm not sure that a top 10 list would be quite so focused on it, at the expense of algorithms, architecture, concurrency, networks, formal methods, etc.

I also doubt the ranty "Worse is Better" should be on any top 10 list, influential or not. Some of these papers seem better suited to give someone a background to furiously prognosticate here on HN and perhaps LtU than to do anything of consequence.
A great deal of these points are things that my parents, who love (and stole my) iPad really don't care about. All they want to do is watch videos, read emails, news, and play games without having to type, click, get spammed, catch viruses, and a bunch of other things that we're used to but is horrible user experience.
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I'd wager that he won't be presenting the next one, but he will come out at the last minute and present the "one more thing".
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I hope we may still see him around, doing those great presentations. He is a genius on that.
The CDC data just shows causes of death. The first most common is "Unintentional injury," which I assume covers things like car accidents and risky sports. Neither affect me because I don't drive (take the bus) and don't participate in dangerous sports.

I shouldn't have to address homicide. I'm from the Baltimore area -- I know exactly who that age group is weighted by and I'm not concerned about dying by homicide.

I'm not going to commit suicide.

Malignant neoplasm (cancer) is unlikely. I'm low on risk factors and don't have a high genetic propensity. I'm also in the fortunate position of having a better knowledge of my medical risk factors than most people because I'm from a family of doctors.

Your second example isn't even a real example. You have no data, you're just making a claim. As far as life insurance goes, I doubt they collect extremely accurate statistical data. It's not in their best interests to lower their premiums so I would expect any life insurance policy to be heavily weighted in their favor.
Two of my favorites are not there:

"I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

and

"I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products."
One quibble:

> Establish competence – The first question on the table in every meeting is “Why should I listen to you?” Bring some content to the dance; a slide or better yet a story that shows you to be someone worthy of attention in your prospect’s busy schedule.

In my experience, trying to "establish competence" doesn't work. Either your accomplishments speak for themselves, your reputation precedes you, or someone vouches for you. You can't foist a "story" on someone who doesn't know you.
It's updated. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/08/24Letter-from-Steve-...
More readable versions of the Shannon paper (and a more compressed pdf version[1]) here: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/paper.html

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...
The company is a fractal design. Simplicity, elegance, beauty, cleverness, humility.

Good text, but maybe not well-chosen words throughout the whole post. Humility is a little too much.
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Though I believe the company will be fine, this kind of feels like the end of an era. It's sad, as well, because it sounds very much like his reasons for stepping down are health-related, which can't be good.

He's survived and built amazing things in the face of great illness, when a lot of people would have given up. Sure, he had more financial resources than most to put into that battle against cancer, but a large part of it still comes down to determination and will. It would have been easy, several years ago, to say "I'm too tired to do this anymore" when you've fought cancer and don't need the paycheck. Someone like that doesn't step away from something they love unless they feel they absolutely have to.

I just hope Steve and his family are given the respect and privacy they will no doubt need and desire in the weeks and months ahead.
One of the first tweets I read in the minutes after this news broke was "@gruber Well? Help us process this, John." I'm glad he didn't waste any time.
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Thanks for posting this fogus. This is great so far.
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This is not the case with 0^0=1, which is inconsistent with many limits.

So what? It's only a problem if you want the exponentation function to be continuous, so you escape the problem by leaving it undefined. You could place similar unbased requirements on complex exponentiation to make it seem incorrect. For instance, real exponentiation always gives a positive value for positive base, while complex does not, so e^(i pi) = -1 is wrong. I agree that this is ridiculous requirement, but leaving 0^0 undefined because the math is not as we want it to be (e.g. exponentation is not continuous) looks just as ridiculous and silly to me.

On the other hand, putting 0^0 = 1 makes it consistent many combinatoric formulas, and is also consistent with cardinal exponentation, where nobody objects to 0^0 = 1, when you look at 0 as the cardinal number.
In some cases (e.g. "class Box extends Batman.Object"), the corresponding JS would be much more verbose and less immediately grok-able.

I think CoffeeScript is mainstream enough at this point that CoffeeScript-based documentation is a fine thing. Especially since, as they say at the top of the page, Batman.js "is written in CoffeeScript and its API is developed with CoffeeScript in mind."
What are your target supported browsers/versions?
0^-1 is definitely infinity

x^(-1) doesn't have an upper bound as x approaches zero.
This is more of a meta-comment, but it is always interesting seeing links like this (here on Hacker News and elsewhere) which attract a fair number of upvotes, but no comments.

Perhaps we're all afraid of looking stupid... easier to discuss Job's retirement or something less scary :)

Anyway, to drop down a metalevel, this is fabulous but also interesting for what the lambda calculus doesn't talk about - concurrency and more broadly time. I'd like to see more pages like this but which come from an actor model of computation or some other process calculus.
I wonder how overburned most areas are? I had a friend who was an EMT and said they really liked being called (didn't get the impression they were that busy) because it was far better to be safe than sorry and people were often too hesitant about calling for emergency services.
Apple's years with and without Steve Jobs [infographic]
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What will Apple under CEO Tim Cook look like?
Yep, quite correct. The actual court language is:

“if, in the eye of the ordinary observer, giving such attention as a purchaser usually gives, two designs are substantially the same, if the resemblance is such as to deceive such an observer, inducing him to purchase one supposing it to be the other, the first one patented is infringed by the other.” (Gorham Co. v. White, 81 U.S. 511, 528 (1871)) (From http://www.applepatent.com/2011/04/apple-v-samsung-design-pa...).

The patents are actually on the iphone, but in light of the '2001 pads, rectangular thin pad like devices with display areas across nearly the entire front are not novel.
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I agree, best line of the post.
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Amazon works pretty well for this now, and the catalog is far deeper than any Gamestop's. It's even easy to sell your own stuff there through a variety of mechanisms.
i'm inclined to believe that the probability of jobs resigning, especially after his medical leave in january, was already priced into the stock.

this would imply the market prices steve's value to the company > the 5% drop we saw after hours, since the 5% drop should reflect the incremental change of P(x) = 1. i'm not saying the stock won't take a huge hit tomorrow, but my bet is that it recovers in the near-to-medium term.

i am also not saying that the market is right - i wholeheartedly believe the company and its management can execute on steve's vision and has been for some time without daily guidance.
They wrote you a nice library and are giving it away under an MIT license. You don't get to pick the style they use to write the examples.

This is a response to something nobody's saying.

Obviously if they write it they get to choose pretty much everything about it. Nobody is disputing such a thing.

However, if one of the goals in releasing this is to be maximally useful, isn't the fact that raw Javascript is more readily understandable to more people a good thing to point out? Especially since it's highly likely that the team actually has the ability to do normal JS just as easily.

If they disagree with such a goal, though, they can feel free to do whatever they want.
Jobs stepping down as Chief Executive of Apple
Especially when you also saw BeOS in the running. I was happy when they chose NeXT but I always wanted a BeBox :)
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That's trainable. What's not trainable is knowing what to say "no" and "yes" to. Steve developed this instinct over a long time. He made a lot more blunders when he was younger, and learned from them.
But my point is, if 0^0 = 1 is _the_ answer in discrete setting, and it's _an_ answer in continuous setting, why don't we just agree that 0^0 = 1 and stop creating confusing situation where sometimes it's defined and sometimes it's not. 0^0 = 1 does not make calculus theorems more complicated to state or prove with modern language. It was a problem in XIX century, when mathematicians did not have a solid foundation with concepts like limit or continuity, but it's over now.

Mathematician here; we do not.

It seems I was a little too bold with my claim. All the mathematicians I know (and I'm a mathematician as well) agree with 0^0 = 1. It's a folklore specific thing, I guess.
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This sounds more or less like Backbone.js. How does it compare to that?

The name is amusing, but a bit silly --

"What are you guys using for all of your cool AJAXy stuff?"

"Batman."
The thing to keep in mind is this: Apple tomorrow, a week from now, and next month is the exact same Apple from yesterday, a week ago, and last month.

Don't know about that. Apple, like all hi-tech companies, is constantly changing, adapting, finding new ways, dealing with change, innovation, etc.
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I had a professor who graduated from University of Cambridge, where they use a tutorial style course system, (for more information check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_system, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge#Teaching, and http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/Publications/Resources/OxCHEPS_OP1_08.pdf (PDF)) which I think would work really well on the web.

The two main concerns I have are recruiting professors, and keeping tuition low while covering all financial bases. I'll admit, I have no clue what to look for in a professor other than the proper degrees and experience, and even if I do find qualified people, how do I convince them to join a new college? I'm not mentioning potentiiial professors not knowing the tutorial system yet, because I imagine most in the USA don't, they'll have to be trained.

Resources I found online (forgive me, I don't know how to add links.):
* How to start an online college - http://www.ehow.com/how_4759165_start-online-college.html
* School start-up consultancy - http://www.halladayeducationgroup.com/school_ser_form.php?gclid=CPvQkPe1lpgCFQETGgodmUX5mQ
* The accreditation process and it's benefits - http://www.worldwidelearn.com/accreditation/accreditation-process-benefits.htm
* How to start your own online college - http://melbrown1.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Start-Your-Own-Online-College

A tl;dr for those who didn't read the two wikipedia articles I linked to earlier.
* Students write an entrance essay on a topic set by the professor.
* Professor grades the essays based on criteria layed out in the syllabus and picks the top three.
* Students and professor meet weekly to talk about last week's assignment, the students are give given a new assignment with a new set of source books and websites.
* Additional exercises may be added based on the course.
* It's just a pass or fail grade, there is no a,b,c,d,f scale as seen elsewhere.

Should I start this business? Keep in mind I know nothing about how the college system works. As always, comments, critisism, ideas, and resources are appreciated. thank you.
Nobody who knows CoffeeScript needs to be informed that JavaScript is more mainstream.
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As I commented above, I was encouraged to find a 20% project while there, and I worked on the Android team. Only a few people on my team had 20% projects, but none of them actually wanted a 20% project as far as I can tell. Anyone that did, had one.
I thought the same thing - that'd be called denial.
This is going to sound very old-man of me, but I find myself automatically bumping up the font size of many websites nowadays, especially ones with a low-contrast font color. 8-|
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Exactly. Given that Apple has performed well while Jobs was out on medical leave for significant parts of the last three years, it seems as though Apple can do well without him at the helm. And building an organization that can survive after the leader departs is a real accomplishment.
my favorite one as well.
Steve Jobs and the sound of silence
Are replies always supposed to be rebuttals?

It turns out to be so. If a reply is not a rebuttal, it is usually preceded with something like "To clarify, ..." or "I wanted to add, that ...". I just got confused without it.
Really? No offense intended to Gruber but I really don't see what his blog post says that dozens, if not hundreds of people haven't already said. Including in the comments on HN.
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the Apple //GS
the Mac
Mac OS
the Mac II
the NeXT Cube
NeXTSTEP OS
NeXTSTEP API
Objective-C
Cocoa
Mac OS X
the iMac
the Titanium PowerBook
the iPod
iTunes
the iTunes Music Store
the iPod Touch
the iPhone
the iPad
iOS
the App Store

These things have been utterly inspirational and important to me from the time I first discovered computers for myself at age seven, to today. Without them I would not be who I am today, doing what I'm doing today.

Thanks Steve.

(And if you're wondering what Steve Jobs had to do with the Apple //c, //GS, and Mac II, he was the one who brought in Frog Design to design Apple hardware throughout the 80s, and their work was marvelous, just as Jony Ive's work is marvelous today)
Keynote is really nice for mockups. It has more than capable drawing tools and the snapping is excellent. It's major benefit over a Photoshop or Illustrator would be its relative simplicity. With mockups that is a big factor. Less complexity in the tool can mean less opportunity to add complexity in your design.
Wolfram Alpha says "indeterminate," which is a good example of why Wolfram Alpha needs an "Oh yeah? Prove it" button: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0^0
Completely agree. Even Kent Beck, the author of Extreme Programming, discussed this on his Flight of a Startup[1]

[1] http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=251
I find humility in things like deciding to ship without copy/paste, or the decision to ship the initial phone without an SDK. These decisions are an implicit admission that the company wasn't able to get these things sufficiently polished or thought-through to include in a given iteration.
How exactly is a company a fractal design? What the hell does that mean really?

Seriously how does this apple-ass-clown constantly make it to the front page?

Apple is not a person it is a company. Steve might be full of humility, Apple is not.
Desktop programmers in my country are more traditional minded, and they take jobs at larger companies. Few would be willing to join a startup. I could try nonetheless...
CoffeeScript all day, errday. I actually started making fun of myself for being all giddy when writing some JSON day before yesterday.
Of the major (non patent-troll) companies, Nokia, Motorola and Kodak sued Apple first (although Kodak is basically a patent troll now; cite Sun case).

Apple sued Samsung & HTC first (although Samsung isn't shown on that diagram for some reason)