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As far as I'm concerned, you just renamed it.

I'll be buying an iPhone 4 Steve this friday.

You've made me tear up again, too. I thought I was well prepared for this day... I knew it was going to happen, realized we were getting close, but I wasn't ready. I'm sure he wasn't either. I'm sure he wasn't.
Microsoft condolences for Steve Jobs
The Life and Awesomeness of Steve Jobs
Even the .png name on Apple's site is appropriate:

http://images.apple.com/home/images/t_hero.png

Here's to you Steve, thank you for the inspiration over my lifetime.
I'm not kidding.
source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078434
Yes, I understand your question.

My response was supposed to indicate that the Qt browsers probably will run ok, given that there is sufficient CPU power to run Firefox.
Wow, read that first comment:

"As a mere customer who emailed Mr Jobs 6 times over the past 10 years … and who received 3 replies and a phone call (really…) all I can say is the man ran his company on making the products as good as they could possibly be at that moment. WE should all just try that hard…"
I think the lesson is lost on many-- Steve Jobs wasn't great because he had great taste. He was great because he knew taste was important. I am not sure he even had great taste.. there are anecdotes from the early years that indicate that what he was great at was knowing who to hire who did have great taste.

But he new it was important, he always pushed to make things better....
Google pays tribute to Steve Jobs on their homepage
"Whether it runs in a browser or is an application isn't relevant to how easy something is to use."

Sure, in principle and often in practice can make a mess out of a Web app and can have something nicely simple in a native app.

But your "isn't relevant" is too strong for practice: Again, HTML is a big constraint on what the programmer can do, and this constraint, in practice, forces a lot of simplicity, i.e., ease of use or, if you wish, relatively 'uniform' techniques of use across millions of Web sites with the advantage of learn once, use thousands of times.

Also, your example of Notepad is relevant: Actually, as simple as Notepad is, the average Web app is still significantly easier to use if only because Notepad is nearly unique and there are over 100 million Web apps that, via the constraints of HTML, all work very much the same. So, one billion people can use over 100 million Web apps from learning how to use just a few of them, but nearly all those one billion users would have still more to learn just to use Notepad for the first time. Native apps are so unconstrained they are free to be highly idiosyncratic: Sure, maybe for an app as simple as Notepad the learning time is short, but Notepad is not like an HTML Web app and,thus, needs ADDITIONAL learning time, even if only 5 seconds. In the world of the Web, the 5 seconds learning time unique to one Web site is TOO MUCH.

Again, this uniformity and ease of use pushed hard by the simplicity of HTML is a BIGGIE for the current size and future growth of the Web, and more complexity in client side programming tools is a threat to such growth.

Jeff Jaffe, listen up!
First Macintosh Presentation by Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
More than 2/3 of the stories on the front page are about Steve Jobs
CUT IT OUT
iPhone 4S = iPhone 4Steve
Again with this. Every time someone from the Silicon Valley pantheon does something interesting and it reaches HN, people feel the need to voice if they 'like' it or resist 'liking' it.

I think it's immensely interesting Parker and Zuck think in terms of experiences, not just UX, but the experiential realities of using a piece of technology. Every tech visionary I've met looks at products and services this way. This is an inside look into the way Parker thinks about technology, and the comments are just a bunch of people mashing the mythical 'dislike' button.

Emotions change thinking, I get it. Optimism and Pessimism are the two emotional reactions to an opportunity. Optimists imagine a positive reason for the event happening- superstition- (I need a hacker to help me with my startup, he's perfect), pessimists focus on the risks- paranoia- (I don't want to give equity to this guy). Understand how emotion directs thought and then see things as they are.

That being said, I think it's weird that the actions of successful people provoke emotional responses on this forum.
I assume you mean "I’m sure the phone will appear in a week or two" in reference to the iPhone 5. That's incredibly bold. Maybe this spring, but in two weeks?
Death is obviously bad for you as an individual, but is crucial to the long-term survival on a species. Without death, you can't have evolution or adaptability.

Once a species has the intelligence and technology to eliminate death, they'll be able to evolve and adapt themselves far more effectively than evolution via natural selection.
There's something to be said for retiring at the right time, but no, I don't think Steve Jobs' legacy would have been robbed of anything if he'd lived to enjoy thirty years of comfortable retirement.

Even dashing young actors aren't diminished by age. If Sean Connery had died young he would have robbed us of some great roles. And if Paul Newman had died young he would have robbed us of some tasty salad dressing.
I cannot even begin to conceive the kind of confusion that has legitimized the "species over the individual" narrative. Just because something is natural doesn't mean that it's good. If you consider it "hopelessly egocentric" to think of death as a bad, bad thing since it's necessary for natural selection, do you also consider it ethically acceptable to kill an individual once he has stopped procreating, since he's no longer relevant to the evolutionary game?
I don't even know what to type. I'm just simply sad.
"as I became CEO of Google and spend time offering his advice and knowledge even though he was not at all well."

Doesn't Google compete with Apple? Why would Steve do that when Google is the number 1 competitor of Apple?
Think Different (1997)
Repeating a comment I made 529 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1291314

"Back in Macworld Boston 1996, I bought one share of Apple stock at $16 and got a framed commemorative stock certificate. It went into a box when I moved later that year and I completely forgot about until I found it a couple of weeks ago. It's worth almost $1,000 now!"

Thanks Steve. You will be missed.
> "... an insanely great honor."

Nice phrase.
The Meaning Of Life After Jobs
Google Home Page Tribute to Steve Jobs
I think Steve Jobs was prepared for it. I remember reading that the book was originally due out in Spring of 2012. He changed the deadline 5-6 months earlier for Fall of 2011.
"We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much."

Powerful and inspiring.
Making world a better place. It's not about money all the time. And he certainly didn't share any trade secrets, just some general useful advices probably.
I really am uncertain if they saw each others as rivals personally. Both the businesses achieved scale and has different vision. Think Mr.Jobs' joke about them being secretly married is perhaps more closer to reality.
What evidence do you have that there is a business of abusing children?

This sounds like satanic cults in our daycares - froth and hysteria.

Oh, fyi, we've been waging the war on society for a while now. It's in the form of unnecessary wars...
This was Startup News before Hacker News... and while Steve's skill as a hacker could be disputed, his position as the greatest CEO of the modern era is basically indisputable.
To all the entrepreneurs.
"We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That's how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing."

— Steve Jobs
You can get prepaid data from b-mobile and I highly recommend it. They piggyback on Docomo's network and they sell both data-only and data/voice prepaid sims. I don't know if they check visas for the voice version nut the data version is cheap and you can buy it online with no credentials. It's the best thing I've ever seen out of the Japanese mobile industry.
There are Google Services on the Iphone/Ipad and Eric Schmidt was on the Board of Directors at Apple.

Also Larry and Sergey are on his stage they changed how we see the world today as he did. I am pretty sure they both had valuable talks.
Ask HN: Which Steve Jobs quote has inspired you the most?
I shared mine earlier but I also find this inspiring from the Stanford Commencement: 'Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.'
You know you're a big deal when the president of the United States makes a statement about your death just hours after the news breaks.
Steve Jobs was a success, but not because of Apple
Blocking calls are not the problem - you simply block on select({stdin, signalfd}) instead of blocking on read(stdin). The problem rather is slow IO calls that nonetheless never block - the canonical example being a read() from a disk file. In this case (eg. /bin/tar) you would have to poll your signalfd after every read() - but this breaks the file abstraction for programs like /bin/cat that don't care whether the file descriptor they're reading from is the blockable type or not, so they'd have to do both.

This is now starting to look considerably inelegant, and we haven't even talked about implementing the equivalent of synchronous signals provoked by a program's own action (SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS...).
You can't. Resellers can.
I'm late in the thread but just want to wish the best to his family, they helped make him what he represented.
Google honors Steve
Email that I sent to my team about Steve and Google:

To: dev@bitmover.com
Subject: dunno if it was me but

$ mail page@google.com sergey@google.com
Subject: how's about a Steve tribute on the google home page?
He was a huge force in the valley, I know you guys aren't happy with Apple
but a tribute right now would show the world you care and the whole don't
be evil thing is still alive.

--lm

$ mail page@google.com sergey@google.com
Subject: that was fast
Unless I missed it you added the link.

Kinda like this:

http://www.edibleapple.com/2011/09/15/steve-jobs-george-harrison-apple-homepage/

$ mail page@google.com sergey@google.com
Subject: BTW
Thanks.

All of that happened from 18:34 to 18:42. And I have no idea if what
I said had any effect at all, Larry and Sergey did not reply. But it
wasn't there before so far as I know. My guess is that it was me and
a ton of other people. Whatever, now google.com has a link. As they
should.

I'd do the RIP Steve thing except I don't think he's resting, I think
he is dead. He is alive when people remember him, so stay alive Steve.
We remember.

Thank you Larry and Sergey for seeing Steve as the force he was.
Why? Just about everything in this article is factually and verifiably true, except maybe the part about the iPad being late to market. Steve was a great entrepreneur, but I don't think every obituary needs to deify him.
Gnosis as in Samael Aun Weor?
>It would have been lost in the news of Jobs’s death, killing the marketing value he would have loved.

I don't know Steve Jobs, so I can't say anything about this statement.

Is there anybody out there who knew him personally? If so, would he really have done what Mark claims?
I don't authorized my government to deal in secret. I never did and I especially wouldn't have since Wikileaks has shown us the crimes they commit. And to deal with the USA despite their ongoing wars, 'rendition' for torture, etc, is unconscionable, especially when done in secret and to enact unpopular treaties.

Can we get some UN peacekeepers to help us enforce a democracy in Canada?
Also, about 5min in is a great example of how to correctly "break the rules".
Odd. I read his entry and immediately thought "Perfectly succinct."

On a day when every second Tweet, 95% of the HN front page, every news source, etc is completely saturated and so many are dredging up Jobs-related inspiration (speeches, images, lists and facts) in either memory or for karma play, sometimes you don't have to say much but summarise what you feel right then and there.
Ah yes, the poor and irresponsible financiers have to take a haircut. Better that the Greek people should pay the price for a generation for little more than believing the lies their politicians told them to get elected, as they piled on the debt? If there were a way to wring a solution to this crisis out of those most responsible (Greek politicians) I would have us do it, but there isn't. So irresponsible lenders and irresponsible voters, and nations who perhaps irresponsibly guided Greece into the Euro in the first place, will have to share the burden. Sorry this doesn't jive with your Randian neo-libertarian bullshit ideas about how things actually work.
I am sure he has more to say. Given it has only been a couple of hours a deep eulogy isn't something I wouldn't have been worrying about if I was him.
The first paragraph made me close the tab. I'm glad he put it up top, so I didn't needlessly waste my time with such a douche. I should have known better than to click on a Cringely story.
In Honor of Steve Jobs - Smileecards Illustration
In honor of Steve Jobs. http://www.smileecards.com/card/in-honor-of-steve-jobs
Actually, Apple always names the main image of a page 'hero'. Like 'http://www.apple.com/ipad/home/images/hero1_20111004.png on http://www.apple.com/ipad/.

He WAS a hero nonetheless. I, for one, would miss him gravely ;…(
Steve on his relationship with Bill Gates http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM8K1yexO6s&feature=playe...

This interview is one of my fav. I just marvel at Steve's impeccable clarity of thoughts!
Ask HN: Every article on the front page is about Steve Jobs. WTF?
I realize that it's huge news that he died, but this is slightly ridiculous.
WIRED on Steve Jobs
Just vote for other stories then.

People need to "mourn" even if we don't agree with the overboard attention.
It just goes to show you how much Steve Jobs moved people regardless if people liked him or not.
Pretty opinionated obit overall. It's strange how they connected Buddhism with [Greenpeace-style] environmentalism.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 1
Steve's passing is a great loss. Let's not get into petty debates about Jobs vs Gates at least on HN.
I've never used any apple products (at least not for more than 5 minutes before they completely turned me off)

but 56 is too young for anyone and my condolences to those who are affected by this.
Rest in peace, Steve
Geez man, I've only bought one Apple product in my life but this is a once in a lifetime event. Come back in a few days if you don't want to read about him.
This is a fundamental tenet of what lending is all about. It's why a bank won't just give money to anyone for any reason at all. It's something everyone has considered in their personal life on a micro level, at some point. Yet in certain contexts the very idea of a difference between responsible and irresponsible lending, and accountability for same, goes right out the window. Conveniently when it does it always seems to be in support of funneling huge amounts of taxpayer money to large banks, or foisting indentured servitude on the bankrupt.
The interesting counterpoint to that is that all 30 of the stories currently on the "new" page are Steve Jobs related, as well.

I'm just going to come back tomorrow, you guys have fun.
Steve Jobs was quite the guy, everyone had their opinion of him but he ignored the critics and kept his dream going.
Add the writing about him not caring about the environment (even though every damn product has an environmental scorecard) tells me this article is a crock.

I guess Greenpeace is the ultimate decider of environmental caring, and everyone needs to stand on the roof and announce their charitable works. The private life well lived is not good enough for the BBC.
My first computer was an Apple IIc, on which I taught myself BASIC (which provided many memorable minor revelations). Thanks for your efforts Steve Jobs.
It sounds like you didn't understand my comment, which surprises me. Your proposals do not help with the uses that I mentioned.
Yeah you can pretty much write off any tech site as well as the first 15 minutes of any news program for the next 24 hours.

This is how the modern news cycle works, it has to burn itself out.

What I am doing is using the new bigrss feed and working from the bottom to the top.
Yeah, exactly, I went out to page 4 of the "new" queue and was only able to find a few stories that weren't Steve Jobs related. I guess I'll just come back later.
Apple co-founder and savior Steve Jobs dies at 56
Sure, it's possible to write some really bad Web apps. E.g., at my bank, they keep changing their Web site so that once each few months I have to click and click and click to look for where they have moved the page to let me download the PDF of my bank statement. Their 'navigation' is NOT clear.

Yes, building a Web site can be as complicated as we please: I'm buiding one now, my first one, and I am surprised at how much there is to it. So far all the work is just routine, but in total there is a LOT to it. E.g., my main Web page where a user enters some data has 160,615 bytes of typing and may top 200,000 before the page is done. I see the page as 'simple', and I hope my users will, but not everything can be simple about 200,000 bytes of typing. Yes, at 50 characters per line, that would be 4000 lines or, at 50 lines per page, 80 pages printed out!

Still, compared with a 'native' application, in practice HTML heavily constrains what a programmer can do with a user interface. So, an HTML interface is constrained to be relatively simple.

My main point remains: In total, one billion Web users can use any of over 100 million Web sites right away. That's a BIGGIE.

In the Web site I'm developing, I'm going with Microsoft and Visual Basic .NET,.NET, ASP.NET, and ADO.NET. Yes, ASP.NET writes some client side JavaScript for me. Fine with me. But so far I have yet to write a single line of JavaScript and intend to keep it that way!

But if do a lot of client side programming in JavaScript or any more capable successor, then risk programmers having fewer constraints, user interfaces becoming more complicated or, just, unique to each Web site, ease of use of the Web for a billion users going into the toilet, and the Web growth being throttled.

For my Web site, the user interface is SIMPLE. Yes, for each little thing a user does, there is a 'post back' and a 'round trip' to my server. Sure, something native could be 'snappy'. But I'm taking the approach, KISS. And, sure, each round trip lets my Web site put up a different collection of ads! For my most complicated Web page, what my server sends is less than 200,000 bits, and that can go to a user and be displayed VERY quickly. So, my site can appear to be nicely responsive.

Some of what's going on deep inside my servers is complicated, but the user interface should be so simple that people who don't know English should be able to use an English language version of my site! I'm drooling over the fact that one billion Web users will find my site easy to use, if they want to use it!

Net, I recommend that we keep the HTML Web UI SIMPLE.
I'm not sure there's a single story of the same magnitude. And that isn't sentimentality talking, I can't think of anything.
Cash it, because without Steve I wouldn't guarantee you won't end up back at $16.
Key dates from the life of Apple's Steve Jobs
"Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

Thank you Steve, RIP
Steve Jobs, Apple's Visionary, dies at 56
ahh .. I didn't see it at first. Good.
A Tribute to Love: Steve and Laurene Jobs
I just realised something. Steve won't ever see the new Apple building in Cupertino (the "spaceship" one). :'(
Steve, Gizmodo and the untold story of the lost iPhone.
I hate Apple, but I'm not going to lie, I'm teary-eyed right now reading all this. I can certainly see from the comments how much he has inspired everyone, and for that I am grateful. Thanks Steve.
Also every 'new' submission is also Steve related.

He deserves it man.
I have never met Steve Jobs in person, yet I am deeply saddened by this news, this does not happen very often.

Thank you Steve for being an inspiration in our lives and making the world a better place. You will be missed forever. Rest in peace.

My condoloences to your family.
It just itches a nerve to hear "It's a 1000x faster already! Data layout doesn't matter!" when you are thinking back "Well, it's also 1000x more expensive and it could have been 50,000x faster if you had put a bit of thought into your data layout."

I'm a crusty old console game dev. The explanation I give the new kids is: "Remember the PlayStation2? It ran at 300MHz and had a memory latency of 50 cycles. But, the PS3 is faster, right? It runs at 3000MHz and has a memory latency of 500 cycles. You know what happens when you don't think about memory layout? The PS3 runs at the same speed as the PS2!"
BoingBoing's tribute to Steve Jobs - Classic Mac theme
Paul's written before on the uniqueness of the valley.

A key that America has is her ability to allow for iterative steps ( which often pose as failure ) before a great idea can execute commercially. Other countries seemingly have deeper social stigma associated with failing and philistine impatience. This could be changing though at rates faster than perceived within the valley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance is a great study. In particular, characteristics asymptotic re innovation.

" They say that coming events cast their shadows before " - Ada, countess of Lovelace
Well, he certainly had the drive when he started Apple. Based from what I read about him, it hasn't diminished until the day he died. I'm sure he could've kept it going for another 30.
I wish I was privileged enough to have access to the downvote arrow.
I don't agree with cpercival's comments, and I am quite saddened by the loss of Steve - more so than I would have expected.

But it should be pointed out that the comments in no way reflect poorly on Tarsnap. It's a fantastic product.

(other than the fact that the account balance alerts only consider storage used, not traffic charges. Grr.)

edit: Downvoted already? For being a satisfied customer? Really?
Yeah, unfortunately those institutions tend to be for people who want academic "appetizers", or a degree. They're not for serious intellectual pursuit.
The version of Chrome I'm using must have removed H264 support. Quicktime as a fallback is rather disappointing as Flash seems like it has a much higher install base and smaller disk space footprint.
Maybe we should have known about Jobs yesterday?
In the US there are less than 10 resellers, and it is well known that the average wholesale price for an iphone is $650. Of course there is different model mix in that number, but it is not close to $430. Notice that sprint made a commitment to buy 30.5 million iphones, and at current prices is estimated to be $20 billion. That comes out to $655.

Where do you get the 430-470 number? I am happy to be corrected, but I need some evidence.
Apple actually tried, unsuccessfully, to rename the Macintosh to 'Bicycle' during development. [1]

[1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
That's almost as stupid as cashing an erdos or knuth check