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Let's not forget about the browser vendors who, instead of providing a sensible layered operating environment for web applications, foist a ridiculously high-level API for development upon programmers. Javascript and the DOM are not suitable bottom layers for real systems programming. These monoliths will never be secure. Take WebSockets: finally bringing non-polling networking to Javascript decades after it was obviously needed, and in a tragically "web-like" form (mandatory UTF8 encoding). HTML5 storage: a dictionary of strings. What? Who designs this bollocks?
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My fave is the last photo of Jobs in his home office. Despite being one of the wealthiest, most powerful executives in the world it looks like any other guy's man cave.
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Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 -- October 5, 2011).

This movie is dedicated to Steve, for being a true inspiration to many of us.

Credits: Apple, AP Press, The Wall Street Journal, Dylan Rosco for his amazing artwork, Jonathan Mak (Apple logo with Steve Jobs face), royalty free music bundled with iLife, also thanks for HN (news.ycombinator.net) for great links and comments.

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How much would be Apple losing by having the "In Memoriam" page on Apple.com
With a huge product launch nearing (The iPhone 4/4S), what would be Apple's loss figures since there is no mention of the upcoming product on the companies' front page.

P.S. This is aimed at estimating the potential losses of the company.
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Trying to guess why decisions are made, while an interesting exercise, is somewhat pointless. The author has decided, based on his own opinion, that the iPhone has a 3.5" screen because that is a size comfortable for many users. You can come up with equally possible reasons such as:

Apple wants to maintain a consistent environment for users, and a larger screen may cause problems for some apps.
Apple was unable to secure a sufficient number of larger screens and chose to keep the current size due to availability.
Alternative to the last possibility, Apple may have committed to buying a larger number of screens than they needed and do not want to take the financial hit of writing them off.
A larger device may have required more testing time, pushing the release date past the holiday season.
*etc.

Apple isn't likely to confirm or deny reasons they chose not to increase the screen size, so no matter how sure you are of your reasoning, it's still speculation.
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Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.

Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.
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What would stop them from just putting ads back in in a few years and making 3 times as much money?
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True, though there are plenty of very humble, friendly luminaries as well. Woz and Bob Moog come to mind.
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I guess there are several versions. I saw it here: http://www.taz.de/Kritischer-Nachruf-auf-Steve-Jobs/!79461/
The iPhone 4S has a 3.5 diagonal screen, but a 5.1 inch diagonal frame.

Most Android phones are increasing the screen size while decreasing the bezel, but only the increased screen size gets quoted. The next generation using Ice-Cream Sandwich, such as the Prime you mention, can replace the capacitive keys at the bottom with on-screen buttons, just like Honeycomb tablets. The screen size alone doesn't tell you everything about the device size.

This site shows a comparison (note you can click in the top right corner to resize the pictures to actual size)

http://versusio.com/en/google-nexus-prime-vs-apple-iphone-4-...

It's only slightly bigger, yet has nearly double the screen area.
These ideas were always obvious in our culture. Slick, touch screen devices were in films long before the iPhone. I applaud him for the execution and marketing but that's it.

There is nothing exciting about locking a platform down and having a reliable end product either. Linux - completely flexible, unpopular as a desktop OS; Windows - partially locked down, popular but not loved; Mac OS - completely locked down, not widespread but loved. Controlling a tight environment is an order of magnitude easier. Someone was going to take that corner of the market and it just happened to be him. I would call someone like this an anti-hacker for he lived with a philosophy which was distinctly against the grain of hacker culture and his own technical ability was sub-par. He was an entrepreneur, a great one at that.

The issue I have is that this is considered to be such important news when people who have made more than a superficial impact on the world (innovating luxury goods is about as far from that as I can imagine) are completely ignored here when they perish.
That's the idea I've been having recently.

Would it be possible to build a party with the sole intent on producing transparent government and the eventual ability to open all debate to the public via the internet.

In essence, the reason for representatives is that historically people could not take the time out of work to participate in a debate. Even more so if this meant travelling to a debate.

You're supposed to debate locally, and have your representative go represent your area, but what really happens is that your rep is party of a party and the party agree a line and they vote regardless of local voices.

So... if voting was open on all debates for the people to partake in... what's the worst that could happen? Where would it fall down?

Initially I think security issues would be interesting, could they be open and transparent?

And everyone would initially vote for NIMBY policies, so it would grind a lot of stuff to a halt.

The big question, are people able to think of big things that benefit the whole of society even at the cost of them as individuals.

But then, that's the crux of a lot of political issues.
I wondered the same myself, but if I were Apple, it could be $100 Million and I would't care. They owe everything to Steve.
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I don't feel comfortable discussing this topic, however something stood out: "periodic abdominal scans". I've had an abdomiminal CT done, but I was acutely aware of the danger of high radiation doses: I certainly wouldn't want to repeatedly have the procedure done.
> The CEO provided new evidence, ...

Okay ... but part of what isn't clear is whether the "new evidence" was presented in court by counsel or found and entered by the judge.
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I certainly missed it in the wall of Steve that was HN yesterday. ;)
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This tends to work great in theory, but voters are extremely fickle. You can look at California as an example of this. The populace have voted on referendum after referendum to pass new laws without passing the budget to match (since budgets are hard but single sentence laws are easy). Now they face a massive budget shortfall and have no idea how they are going to pay it.
Is this supposed to be the UK's unfunny version of the Onion?
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so? how is that clever or interesting? it pretty much looks like an arrogant and asshole answer to me.
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What an arse!
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once D is in GCC does that mean most of the rationale of Go(lang) is gone, in that both D and Go are supposed to be non-shitty C++.

Now I don't need to download another compiler to write D and I can use c libraries with it, I don't think Go has much over D in order to make me go to the effort of installing a Go compiler.
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No humor. Less funny than the Onion. Lame.
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Last 10 seconds are probably the best tribute I've seen yet.
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When I hold my iPhone horizontally, these arches make a lot more sense.
RMS: standing on principle at any cost until the bitter end. What a trite, insensitive comment to make.
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Channel 4 News (UK) closed the story with this logo last night. They also closed by calling him the "insanely great Steve Jobs" which was nice.
Unfortunate comments by a deluded man.
Only a complete idiot would say this. Wow :-(
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and adjusting the angle I hold the device with my fingers

If you're going to do that, all is lost. One: having to move the entire device in your hand takes a lot of time. This is about fast access to every part of the screen. Two: chances of dropping the device increase very much. The question is: can you reach all parts of the screen with your thumb when you hold the device as you normally do. I most certainly can't.

I think a lot of folks here are not actually considering how they hold their devices and can easily operate them. I have found over and over again that I can't reach the upper corner of the other side and have been annoyed I had to shift the device around in my hand to reach it (for instance while eating an apple with the other hand). I've dropped it once that way. I'm not small, I'm not clumsy. I don't have arthritis or any lack of agility in my hand. Of course I can reach the whole screen with my thumb, if I change the way I hold the device. The point is that you don't want that. The article makes perfect sense to me and completely stacks up with my experience of using my iPhone.
Made me laugh at the very least, RMS is a nutter.
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Different strokes for different folks. I would like a bigger screen and I don't wear jeans. If you don't want a big screen, there will be plenty of Android phones with smaller screens.

That's one big advantage Android has over the iphone. Android can cater to different segments while the iphone is one-size-fits-all (literally and figuratively).
No.

The concurrency constructs (Goroutines) in Go are different and quite unique (I think D offers a number of models, but mostly pushes you towards Actors).

Go has simplicity as a much higher priority than D does.

This thread might be useful: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/8k59Rgke...

They are both interesting languages, but you might as well say that because C++ and Ada are in GCC the rationale behind Go has gone.
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Sorry for the confusion! I didn't know about showdead and thought you were talking about ComputerGuru's comment.
Yup. Today's smartphones (and even tablets) are pretty much rebadged PDAs. The only advances have been a stylus-less UI, a vastly improved image (PDAs are for stodgy business men), and realizing that a package manager is a really good idea.
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Thanks for explaining, but it is not to the point. I did not express any disregard for Steve Jobs, it would have been displaced. I did express concerns about the fact that during one day, HN had nothing else on the front page.
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The other thing that it might be possible to do though obviously not if you are a complete introvert is ask someone.
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His thumbs will magically grow and Apple will be hailed as genius for evolving to the perfect size to accommodate journalists newly larger digits.
I always thought he was a bit of an a-hole but this is very disrespectful.
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Yeah, that would be my guess.

Survived from through to late 1700s whilst only against the hand-powered press, then as soon as industrial presses (steam powered) appear circa 1800 and mass printing was now possible (double-output with far lower human effort being input) it dropped off.

Still doesn't wholly explain it though. If it was seen as a valid character you would expect that the symbol would've been in the charset and have been used in print too.
I agree it's not that hard - I don't even speak German and I had no trouble reading the Fraktur samples I found on wikipedia.
And yet, he uses a Blackberry.
"Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do" - not actually a Steve Jobs quote (it came from an ad campaign Apple ran in the late 90s) but I think it captures his spirit.
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Woz put up a serious fight to make the Apple II as powerful as possible.

Jobs wanted it to be as cheap as possible. Jobs planned to sell two expansion cards, so the Apple II only only needed two expansion slots. Woz refused to hobble the machine when he could easily make it have seven expansion slots.

The Apple II had seven, and within a year there was a flourishing third party market providing all sorts of expansion options.

The Apple II was the last product where Woz had any serious amount of input and (if you had any interest in technology) it was Apple's peak.
This is from end of 2008. It would be great to see an article like that for today. Or maybe things didn't change?
I don't follow you on this. You could just as well say; since Go is already in GCC I don't need another compiler to write Go and I don't need to write any D, or C++ or...

In any case D and Go are very different beasts
What's a blatant join?
I mean you can tell where I joined 2 separate screenshots together as there is a sudden change in the size of the gap between posts at one point.
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This. It's all very well talking about how suitable the screen size is for thumb reach, but I bet being a decent size to fit in a pocket was also very much part of the decision too.
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I'd rather just look at the sky and see the direction of sunrise or sunset to find the direction instead of looking for TV satellites or churches etc.

And, I can't help but notice that the author starts by saying these are the ways to find directions when GPS is knocked out or if there is no one around to ask for directions and later speaks about following the flow of people!
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I believe this is available in both the Python and Java dev environments.

Additionally, http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/prospectivesear... might be of interest.
You can not be serious. It shows up as an external hard drive. Copy your music over. Done. But maybe you've never used a floppy disk or flash drive? I could see it being confusing then.
These are not basic navigation skills, which you should have already to make good use of them, they are to help you if you know the route to take but don't have a point of interest or lost your bearings.
I would've never say that he is crazy, but this crosses the line.
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twice, in fact: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080011

seems like they both got lost.
Wow, reads like something a psychopath would write. Reminds me of Cat's diary entry: http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/humor/otherhumor/dog_cat_diar...
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This does assume that you to some extent speak a language the local population also understands.
As far as I know, Siri doesn't have hard-coded voice commands, like 'SEND TEXT TO PAUL' articulated in a robotic voice. It aims to understands natural language with infinite variations.

One of the examples was: 'Do I need a raincoat today?' and you can continue 'How about tomorrow?' or 'where can I buy one?', and Siri understands the context. This is far far more advanced than any 'voice control' there is, and gives just a glimpse of what's coming.
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"The only advances have been a stylus-less UI,"

That's like saying 'the only difference between driving a car and riding a horse is that you feed the horse hay'. Not having a stylus makes a world of difference, both in how easy it is to use (using a stylus sucks donkey balls, and I did it for 10 years (using a stylus, not sucking donkey balls)) and what you can do with it (e.g. swiping is, in practice, impossible with a stylus)

And the switch to non-stylus screens required vastly different screen tech, so it's not like Palm in the 1990's just made an unfortunate choice and they could've switched at any time.
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Same here, starting to get used to that. None of the "cool effect" sites I click recently work directly on Opera.

Guess it's soon time to resign from that browser. I love it, but it's just getting tiring to have to use "open with chrome" with so many sites.
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I'm sad that Steve has died and do not mean to be disrespectful. That line touched me too, and a moment later I realized that his sister said it and she is a writer.