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Yep, it's okay to criticize someone before they die (though "evil" is usually overdoing it). And it's okay to criticize someone with a reasonable buffer after they die. But taking the opportunity of their death to criticize them is just plain tacky.
One of my female friends is obsessed with this site. I don't get it, but then I'm not their demographic.
Parts are, parts are not. I know kids of wealthy individuals who are terribly unhappy, and kids of dead poor individuals who are the happiest kids I've ever met. Its about the time spend with your kids and the caring you put into your child's needs.
That might be true but the story is on the front page because of the fanboys with their panties in a bunch. Childish and unbecoming HN.
Well, 0.1 us write times wouldn't make sense with the claim that this can replace DRAM and SRAM, but those claims do seem rather dubious anyway...
We're very very interested in this, but given the previous bait and switch on pricing, we're not going to touch it with a 10 foot pole until the pricing is set.
There is definitely some high level shit going on right here.

Such as: they discovered and disabled the virus but are still sending fake info over the virus's communication channel and want the Chinese/Iran/whoever to think it is still working?

That sounds much better than a technically incompetent military with dangerous toys.
Just because they do doesn't mean you should.

When redthrowaway said: "You simply don't say" he was describing how people should behave, not how they actually behave.
Jobs lived a life that he will be remembered for, which is a luxury other computing pioneers I could name (Eckert, Mauchley) did not get to enjoy. I am happy for Jobs in this respect, since it leaves a feeling of "completeness" that came with his death.

However, I would feel more emotionally impacted if Jobs was less egocentric. His world was just that: His world. If something did not meet his vision, he was ready to talk down to it. Even if he was right, his attitude and politics made it difficult for me to really warm up to him.

All I can say is that I wish his family and friends a good life after their tragedy. Regardless of what I think, they knew a man they will never forget.
He wasn't. The desktop market will be reduced to a small slice of technology before Apple has a chance to catch up. It won't matter.
Same anecdote: fulltime dev for 3 years using multiple windows guests on Linux host running Vbox (only switching to host occasionally). Linux box never crashes. I and a coworker (using windows on windows 95% of time in guest) love VirtualBox.

But no arguments if those with real data flag driver as SHIT. I am just thankful that I have never had any crashes.
I remember meeting Ben in Palo Alto last year when he was still figuring things out and trying to raise money. Sounds like it's been amazing year since then. Congrats guys. :-)
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there's the mutt header_cache directive which can help

although if you have 100k+ emails in a folder, particularly a non-archive folder I'd suggest you're doing it wrong
Since GCC exists, the motivation to build another gcc is far less. If gcc had not have existed, people would have built what was needed.

This isn't rocket science, it's just programming. We don't invent things, we just build what needs building.
I'm really not sure how any freedoms are won or lost by the existence of Apple devices. Buy an Apple device or don't buy an Apple device... who cares?
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In this case it should be fine because the second argument is a string literal (guaranteed to be null-terminated) and the function doesn't continue past the end of the first null-terminated string.
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I remember reading somewhere that comedians tend to have above average IQs.
If he's still looking, there are a bunch of California companies who would be happy to hire him.
Ha, exactly. Remember when you couldn't do these kind of things with browsers?
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I'll take a wild guess, predicated on the fact that twitter is another social platform that's difficult to monetize: sponsored pinboards.

My company would pay to have "sponsored pinboards" all day long if the net ROI was positive. But that's a huge "if".
One of my favorite Benjamin Franklin quotes is:

I have sometimes wish’d it had been my destiny to have
been born two or three centuries hence.

I wonder if Steve Jobs felt the same way. I would like to believe that the visionary that he was, his peaceful end was comforted by the fact that all that he envisioned was all on the right path. His few dreams that were not already made reality would soon reach millions. Not only that, but millions if not billions of people around the world now understand his vision, not just the beauty and application of his products, but the implications of a future of grand dreams and great taste.

I will forever regret never meeting the man.
But I was never worth his time.

Now he has all the time in the world to relax with the greats: http://bit.ly/ng7PmU

He gave us platforms. Now it's in our hands.

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Steve knew his calling and thus the world took so much of his precious time. Less than 60 years of life: We shall forever make the best of it as he rests in peace.

The clip affected me more than anything thus far. I think I'm ready to move on now, he gave so much but the world demands so much more. For now, I think I'm done up-voting Steve Jobs.
10^12 cycles with retention measured in years sound much better than flash (i.e. SSD).
Regarding Skype, you're not going to get Skype users over to a free alternative by making your own voice-chat program; you need to actually reverse-engineer the protocol and make your own client so they can switch without having to convince other people.

(Of course, someone did reverse engineer Skype however-long-ago-it-was-now, but looking it up, apparently it might have been done by decompilation and so of questionable legality, which is why nobody's making a Pidgin plugin to use it. Annoying.)
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Too large; didn't read
The audio port is definitely the right way to interface cheaply (and across different mobile phones).

If anyone's interested, there _is_ now a way to interface RS-232 devices from an iPhone using an Apple-approved cable:

http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MSRP...

From what I've heard, negotiations with Apple took a lot of time and were quite "complex". Also, the cable unfortunately costs 80$ (because of the custom, "secret" DRM chip enabling the interface). Which goes to prove that the audio jack goes a long way!
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This one? Stallman receiving Torvalds award at LinuxWorld conf 1999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDxMJQLXmBE
Right, and my point was that that ready example was as close to a "static compiler framework" as you can get without actually being one. It's an exception-that-proves-the-rule case.
The utility 'sponge' is useful for doing this in the general case.
I use it. I expect more people use it, it's OpenID after all.
Would the former employer have sued him directly?

At some point, civil disobedience is the right societal answer to this kind of thing, even if it's a bad choice for an individual.

I'd be willing to get sued over a non-compete (if it were genuinely a case of not competing, and where I thought a judge/jury would support me, especially if it were a very telegenic case like this), but I can see where a 20 year old kid wouldn't.
Potentially more reliable than both, but that remains to be proven out. HDDs have a 1E14 unrecoverable harder error rate, flash is higher (1E15) The lack of moving parts is a plus for SSDs and memristors but the susceptibility to tunnelling electrons is higher on flash/memristors than in the magnetic domain of HDDs. When they were first talked about at ISSCC the temperature sensitivity of memristors was also mentioned.

I know, not a lot of useful info, my notes are sparse on these guys. I figured we'd see pattern memory (IBM) sooner. Maybe we'll get both, that would suck since they both need high initial costs to quickly offset their development costs. Hard to do in a strongly competitive environment.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/how-we-fo...

[2] http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-20026553-76.html

[3] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6012/1810.abstract
I can vouch for the engages women... Pinterest has the secret sauce. My wife and her friends absolutely love it and get a lot of value and inspiration from the photos and links.

At first glance my thought was that it would be an amazing advertising platform. Mix in the user generated pinned photos with high quality targeted photos of products women are interested in buying and you've got some potential magic.

Again, using my wife as a reference, she's taken several ideas she's picked up on Pinterest and applied them to recipes, decorations, clothing, house design ideas (we're in the early stages of designing our new home), and travel ideas. She's not one to jump on the latest thing, so it surprised me how effectively Pinterest hooked her.
I know this is not the point of the post, but how confident are you that this was the real reason he declined?

This non-compete sounds rather unenforceable to me.
fogus links to his list http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083561 which I think is one of the better lists of this type since it covers the paradigm space more thoroughly than most such lists.

The only type of language I rarely seen mentioned are dependently typed languages like agda or epigram. maybe it is because they are not yet practical. They are an interesting directions things could take though. Fortress is another interesting one.

Another interesting language is Aldor. It's unique in that it has a weak form of dependent types and is a statically typed Computer Algebra/general programming language. Going through the types of the language is an education itself and a reasoning helper. While some take issue to the hierarchy it defines, it is the only one I know that has tried and is useful. The type provide some scaffolding for reinforcing the novice math person trying stuff out.
Same anecdote: fulltime dev for 3 years using multiple windows guests on Linux host running Vbox (only switching to host occasionally). Linux box never crashes. I and a coworker (using windows on windows 95% of time in guest) love VirtualBox.

But no arguments if those with real data flag driver as SHIT - a crash rate of o. I am just thankful that I have never had any crashes.
teej, I assure you, I am under no illusion that they can "slap Norton on these things and call it a day". I am at least somewhat conversant with the realities of designing complex military systems. But if the systems really are so highly specialized, and I assume they are, that's still no excuse. At all. If they can't keep malware off them, they have no business flying them, at least for the time being. Which is all I was saying. I know it's not easy.
I'm using Io in a serious project, it is the scripting language I chose to use for my games. Io's expressiveness and reflection has allowed me to make lots of mini-DSLs to simplify game scripting tasks. I'm very happy with the performance of its garbage collector; it's pauseless and I have profiled it as using only 10% of the cpu time while running a game. I think the vm code has been stable for some time now and the move to cmake cleaned up the build process. The only disagreement I have is over coroutines - they do weird things to the stack and they dont play nicely with C++ exceptions if you throw one and let it cross a coroutine boundary. I've started a project to port Io l's C code to C++ and replace the coroutines implementation. Most of my projects on github are related to Io in some way: http://github.com/dennisferron
This is just silly, and no doubt unenforceable. Hire Bob and as part of his employment agreement let him know you'll defend him in court if he gets sued. Then file a motion for declarative relief with your local court asking them to provide you with a get out of court free card.
Richard Stallman does an excellent job of defining what it means to be a free software radical. He makes the rest of us look far more moderate and reasonable by comparison, which is a very valuable thing.
Probably not some kind of corporate conspiracy. It's sad that so many people seem to agree with you. It shows a lack of critical thinking. I'm sure we'd all like to believe in these underground corporate black-ops schemes but they're just fun to imagine, they're not reality.
It’s not irrational to accept that appearance matters to many if not most people or almost every person. And when choosing someone to be a spokesperson for FSF, that’s a valid consideration.

That being said, my observation is that if Mr. Stallman says X or Y or Z and we are discussing what he said, we are not choosing a spokesperson, nor are we any of “those” people. We are free to choose to evaluate what he said in a vacuum, just as if it were posted by an AnonymousCoward. We are perfectly free to debate X or Y or Z on their own terms.

If you or that person over there or this person over here would rather segue into repeating the exact same conversation we had last week and the week before that, and the month before that about how off-putting the man’s behaviour can be at times, well, that is your privilege. It’s not irrational to discuss it, just as it’s not irrational to discuss the fact that Apple’s first president reportedly didn’t like Steve’s body odour stinking up his office.

I remember when Steve’s star wasn’t quite so high in the public perception, and people did call out his eccentricities. When his products and ideas weren’t home runs, people complained about his autocratic ways and accused him of being a fanatic, explaining how his lack of appreciation for the “real world” and for “compromise” were costing Apple and NeXT. They harangued him for his abrasive manners and habit of screaming at employees.

In the end, I see the two men as having some great similarities.
I second the recommendation in the post - don't sign a non-compete if you can.

A past employer introduced a non-compete half way through my employment. Most engineers ignored repeated HR requests to sign it. I had a few 1:1 discussions with my boss during which I stared with a blank look. Then I just asked: "Have you signed it?" - I was never asked again.
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spot on bill, in a nutshell.
I'm not sure whether he meant the boot time here. May be the Windows 8 installation time. I could be wrong.
And who get's to decide what who the 'truly evil' are?
In my opinion, putting Fidel Castro in the same set as Bin Laden or Sadam Hussein is unfair, yet for you he is evil just like those other two. I could present a sh*tload of evidence that things are way more complicated than that.
But it's not up to me to decide for everyone else.

Now, I think RMS could be more reasonable, it's not a nice to drop such negative and strong sentences about someone that just passed away. But my opinion remains the same concerning sadam hussein, we cannot just decide he is evil and then everything goes.

Saying that you're not interested in discussing particular borderlines cases, in your case means you're not interested in discussing any case at all, since every case has its particular borderline.
Your opinion becomes of little or zero value if you're not willing to discuss it. Just saying.
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BSD, Apache and MIT are all Free licenses, even by Stallman's viewpoint. They're just not copyleft.

He thinks the Open Source movement misses the point, but he has no problems accepting their software as Free.
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If a FOSS advocate had created the iPad...

Well, there was the Linux-based CrunchPad before the iPad was even announced. Who knows what the world may be like if Fusion Garage hadn't severed ties with Arrington and released the overpriced Joojoo.
Lenovo on their business machines still includes PS/2 ports, and USB can be completely disabled by setting a jumper on the motherboard, or changing a setting in the BIOS.

When asked why they were told that for government contracts, and for businesses that wanted to make sure that USB devices could not just be used at random.
I do not know the man well enough to pass any judgement on him. But, your statement [1] raised a question in my mind: On the wiki page, there is an outline of his plan to eliminate global warming through geoengineering. I assume this will cost a lot of money. What if he is trying to build up his wealth so that one day he can fund a massive geoengineering project to help the earth's climate? He has demonstrated the desire at least.

[1] " It's as if he's decided to just make the world a worse place because he can."
He makes the claim: "Well educated people think about education as an investment." He later says: "The average, middle class person thinks about education as an expenditure, not an investment."

Put together he is claiming that middle class people are not, on average, well educated. There is also an implication that lower class people are not well educated either.

We are left, by inference, with the claim that it is only the upper class who is well educated. Perhaps we should define what it means to be well educated before proceeding or accepting any further claims in the article.
Attention, brilliant people: don't be a boor. How is that not relevant? (my wife gives me this advice frequently, it's a good one for hackers to internalize)
HNer, Matt Might, did a quick hack (weekend-type) to control a scribbler robot via BlueTooth via smartphone a while back [1]. Given that ROS (Robot Operating System) is being ported to Android, the capabilities for these systems are going to explode! Soon enough, you'll have phone-based robots that have all the accouterments: 3D perception, localization, etc.

[1] http://www.hizook.com/blog/2011/01/12/ipad-and-iphone-contro...
This is really exciting, I think there's a lot of potential in memristors, so seeing it used for a practical purposes is great news.
Didn't we see something like this at Google I/O? I wonder if that's where they got the idea.
Memory usage is pretty significant. All those 10s add up a lot. Remember 50mb less from the OS = 50mb more for your running app.

Bigger issue: The low priority memory. AVs are a big memory hog and cause problems, this will mitigate it. MS is acknowledging that AVs are a necessary evil and there are not the only ones that do this, and this allows you to just make friendly programs.
this is really encouraging!
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It upset me enough that I never want to use any of RS's software again.

Are there any FSF/GPL/GNU stuff on OS X? Ubuntu? (I'm trying to think of anything I use that is GPL/FSF/GNU).

I don't use any of Microsoft's stuff anymore because generally I've found better alternatives. I think open source software is a better philosophy. I think the same thing about the GPL/FSF/RS/GNU stuff, (I think it's a bad philosophy), and I'd love to rid myself of it.

Could someone give me some pointers how I can avoid RS's stuff completely?

Thanks!
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> Education also really is several separate industries rather than a monolithic one.

This is a great point, and something pundits and the author of this article don't explain in sufficient detail. Comparing a company that offers online courses to end consumers and a company selling software a a service to districts and universities is nonsensical. Is it safe to say that the education market on whole is a challenging environment? Sure. But beyond that, without specifying a narrow segment, generalizations are useless.
The parent was referring to their own anecdote, not the link's benchmarks.
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I spent most of 2007 in Judge Ward's court room, all I can say is if you have never been a part of one the patent cases involving him you have missed out on quite a bit of humor.

Though he was known for being plaintiff friendly I can happily say we came out on the other side of a few of his judgements and I have known him to be mostly fair given the proper arguments. Sadly, the trolls win all too often because more often than not they have more money than the guy they are suing, good attorneys do not come cheap and the patent trolls do not mind paying for them
Beyond that, I would be more likely to higher someone who stood up for themselves in such a situation.
Great article! I have a rabid passion about this space and have been thinking and researching it for last 2 years. The five minutes I spent reading this has taught me more about the space than the last 2 years. I also think this resonates with me because it just shows how hard it will be to be disruptive and how jacked up it really is in the US.

Thanks for posting!
Hi JByers -- blog author here. I don't think the comparison is non-sensical because the common thread tying all of these different segments together is the end buyer's perception of value. If you as the builder or service provider or technologist think that the value you're offering is higher quality you will have a slow road. If you think it is saving cost/time to get to the same level of quality you will scale quickly. This holds across segments as the examples in the post illustrate -- Chegg, University of Phoenix, TutorVista, etc.
IMO the lack of layer groups is a second big drawback that I find myself working around as a regular GIMP user (lots of merging layers and hiding their source layers).
This comment of mine is a bit off topic, since its not related to Steve Jobs:

I'm from Argentina and I've been watching Colbert and Jon Stewart for about 3 years now. I'm simply amazed every day when I see both shows. There's nothing I would like more than to see this format of television being brought to Argentina, but I doubt it.

What I want to say is: People in the US, you are VERY lucky for having these shows on air. Please, don't take them for granted. Treasure them!!!
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Are you, by any chance, saying that you have certain principles that outweigh things like convenience and fitness for purpose? That you are prepared to go out of your way to reject the use of certain software purely because you dislike its philosophy, and not because it’s objectively worse for you?

If so, you and Mr. Stallman have something in common.
So why does a secret operation want it known that is open to computer viruses?

I submit this a Black Flag operation story.
I'm fascinated by their argument that the court is fair because plaintiff and defendant wins were about even now. I know nothing about the caseload, but does that make any sense?

If his district is seen as plaintiff-friendly, then those with the weakest cases would have the strongest incentive to file there. And I would expect patent trolls to be high-volume filers because their targets would be more likely to flip the bird during negotiations.

So I wouldn't a priori expect 50/50 outcomes to be a sign of fairness. Depending on caseload, I'd expect that as a sign of pro-plaintiff bias. If I'm a troll filing a lot of claims, 50/50 outcomes sounds like a reason to file as many as possible.
I am torn. I would love to purchase the books, yet at the same time I don't want to give any money to someone that could potentially sue me and my company for everything it is worth...