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It is a difficult market. I remember when Netbooks started out many were running on some Linux distribution, but most people were willing to pay a premium for windows. So the challenge for you is going to find a market. I suspect that most Ubuntu Users are able to format a standard OS and install Ubuntu on it. One idea might be to import some extremely cheap system and offer that one with Ubuntu pre-installed. Good luck!
I like to think he had mowed grass. That is what a common man does in the U.S., and it would be a sign of his humanity. I also like to think he just wore the shoes because he was sick, in pain, and he needed a comfortable pair of shoes.
I'm going to take Dino's word over that of the people supplying forensics tools to LEOs: a 5-character alnum passphrase on iOS takes years to brute force. The actual filesystem on an iPhone is encrypted under a key encrypted by (IIRC) a key derived from the PIN.
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Unless I'm reading this wrong, the author is claiming that without Steve Jobs we wouldn't have personal computers and MP3 players. Wow. There's hyperbole and then there's plain silliness. I can't see how that is a proper way to pay homage.
Ah, you are correct about "innovation".

Still, it seems that Apple gets a lot of credit they shouldn't... people, for example, think Apple invented smartphones when, in fact, Palm deserves credit.
Apparently it is not available in my country. The level of incompetence among music executives continues to astonish me.

If you don't want to sell it to me, why the fuck sue people for getting it from somebody else for free?

Maybe we should buy some shares and get those idiots fired.
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Maybe, but it has a big advantage.

It is available in my country.

I don't care about the blurry lines of legality. If you don't want to sell it to me, why should it matter were I get it?
Apple and Jobs is probably the biggest turnaround in the history of tech companies, but IBM was in pretty dire straits too, not that long ago.

(But I like Apple more. ;) )
This was surprisingly good -- I had no idea about these connections.
Steve Jobs was a grandmaster of sincerity.
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Not only did he mention Mathematica again (doesnt he in every blog post he writes?), he even managed to somehow correlate Steve Jobs and NKOS (which he also does with every blog topic he writes about, like a broken record).
In what way? Steve Jobs is mentioned in literally every paragraph of the article.
How is homeopathy regulated in the UK? I believe in the US there is a self-regulated guild which could not prevent anyone else from advertising himself as a homeopath.
I want to stress that practicing conventional medicine and homeopathy are not exclusive. I came across a report a while back that majority of family doctors employed by the British NHC sometimes prescribed homeopathic preparations.
(could not locate the report). Closer to home, a family member very recently saw an MD whose practice emphasizes homeopathy. I imagine that if he harmed his patients the State Board of Medicine would discipline him. As things are he has an appointment at a wellness center ran by the flagship state university, his alma mater. The visit was about cancer and, I am told, his recommendations did not contravene any advice given by the oncologists.
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Well, it's certainly not aimed at mainstream users. For them, we've got plenty of Windows laptops and Macbooks to choose from :-)

We're aiming to sell these primarily to existing Ubuntu users. Imagine if you just received your laptop in the mail and could start using it right away instead of installing an OS and fiddling with packages. If you especially enjoy doing that, then you're not our target customer anyway.
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I think it's fine if the client assigns different colors to each nickname, like Weechat does. But bare text can be hard to follow, yes.

I've ran the log through irclog2html and uploaded the result here, maybe it can help: http://pastehtml.com/view/b9p8ofymh.html
Most nerds do. They fail to realize that very few would have known of Wozniak's work--would not have used it in homes and schools and businesses, would not have been able to integrate the computers that resulted from Wozniak's work in their everyday lives.

Computers for everyone? Yeah, it's the result of marketing, in a lot of ways. But it's also the result of an intuitive understanding of users--of users, not borderline-Asperger's hacker types--and the business discipline and leadership to say "we're going here, I know it's not easy, make it happen." Vision is valuable. Technical contributions are so much less valuable without the vision to apply them to do something great.
And don't forget the maintenance you have to do on those machines. You're testing is 5 minutes under way and BAM Windows updates wants your attention for a reboot.
When will it be stable for Windows?

And i'm not joking either. Flash is the main cause of browser instability and RAM hogging.

And this without even getting started on security.
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Should have? Maybe. But, with corporations that size it's unlikely. I'm not saying this fall entirely on him, but I feel he didn't exactly do his fullest before puling the trigger on the full disclosure.
The government appear to have caved :)
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Steve Jobs didn’t
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You have put into words my thoughts exactly.

To be sure, i am a bit of a woz fanboy, having lived through the 80's and poring over his work.

Though i don't begrudge Jobs the fame and fortune, i do think a lot of people overlook woz. To me, he is probably the single most influential pioneer in the history of personal computing.
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The impact of Steve is much bigger than the Apple itself.
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The first time I heard the word "icon" was when I was introduced to the new Macintosh 128k as a young child. Seems very appropriate now. Steve Jobs, Icon. RIP.
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The software industry is holding back the tech industry like you cannot believe. If not for Microsoft's stranglehold on the PC during the 80s and 90s tech would be far more prevalent. Almost every security bug in an MS product was already noted and fixed in VMS and other OSes that were feature-complete before MS-DOS began.

We just happen to be in one of the first real industries (media is popular but not strictly useful, so not an industry for the purposes of this) whose product can be copied without incremental cost. Instead of throwing up artificial barriers around this to try to perpetuate our old-world business models we should be leveraging this and creating all the value we can.

Besides, making software free (by removing the ability to demand money for it) doesn't mean nobody would be paid to work on it. Many (most?) full-time Linux devs are paid. Probably 95% of software isn't a for-sale product, and of the bit that is, much of that could probably be supported other ways.
Now, did I say that?
I think the stress and pressure of running a company also may have contributed to Job's health. He may have had pancreatic problems nonetheless, but the stress, lack of sleep, eating fast food at his desk, etc couldn't have been beneficial. Jobs may have contributed a lot to society, but he probably paid a huge price for it.
i agree with you that preserving anonymity is a valid goal. spending 20-30 minutes on the phone is not how one should run something like a whistle-blower's hotline.

i don't agree with the idea that you are "...being kind and generous by not exploiting...".
At the time, all sorts of people were telling me that I needed to put quotes on the back cover of the book. So I asked Steve Jobs if he’d give me one. Various questions came back. But eventually Steve said, “Isaac Newton didn’t have back-cover quotes; why do you want them?”

This tells so much about Jobs. Everybody is doing X but we do Y. Think different.
But that's the thing: the Apple II simply had no "user experience" in the sense we understand today. You turned it on and got an Integer BASIC prompt (or the monitor). That software was a stripped down version of BASICs that existed elsewhere, not something meaningfully "improved" by Apple (except in the sense of running amazingly well in 8kb of RAM) it was hand written (hand assembled I believe) by Woz.

Eventually, sure, real software shipped for the Apple II. But in the early days it was all out of house (c.f. Applesoft). It wasn't until the days of ProDOS that Apple got serious about writing its own software, and by then Woz had left and Jobs was working on the Mac.

Really, download an emulator and try this thing. Then download the Red Book from bitsavers.org or wherever and read it. It's a hacker's paradise. It's very much not a precursor to the Mac, or the iPhone.

And it's all Woz. He's one of the greatest hackers ever to live, and yet people like you, trapped in the reality distortion field, have managed to needlessly forget him and/or write him out of the history books. And that makes me sad.
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I live in Brazil and was hired to work for a company in 2009 and they sent me for a project lasting 2 months in Rome. I was impressed about how the people in general and specially the women hated Berlusconi. And he is still there today.
I'm so grateful that you guys like this interview!

As I prepped for it, I thought of the HN community and said, "Those guys heard all about the Lean Startup methodology. How the hell am I going to bring them anything new and make it useful for them?"

I almost psyched myself out by worrying about it. Then I put HN out of my mind completely and tried to just focus on the material.

That's why I'm stunned & appreciative that you like. Thank you.
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The middle is the most boring place to reside. Nothing happens there.
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Steve Jobs on his upcoming biography: "I wanted my kids to know me."
I remember installing Flash on Debian about 4 years ago and wishing there was a 64 bit version so I didn't have to clutter up the system with another version of Firefox or the 32bit bridge libraries. Glad to see that this was resolved though.
The signal strength for ATT in San Francisco is pitiful. Both at home and at work, I have to stand in specific locations if I want to successfully make a call. Can anyone comment on the signals of Verizon vs Sprint in SF?
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So you don't believe in medical research? After all, anyone who participates in a new drug investigation is by definition a consumer of 'alternative medicine', assuming you're going by the definition that others have been posting in this thread.

For my money, I don't see what could possibly be more in the spirit of the hacker philosophy than being a medical researcher, trial candidate, or early adopter. The reason the average person is able to walk into a doctors office today and usually get at least decent advice is because of the millions before them who have been willing to do the research, think for themselves, weigh the balance of evidence, make rational decisions, and document their findings.

The fact is that if Steve had died while taking part in a new drug trial as part of a clinical investigation then no one would be giving him shit; that folks are so dismissive of 'alternative' medicine has nothing to do with proven vs unproven, as if it were black and white, and everything to do with ignorance of how medical research, approval, and treatment actually work.

There are hundreds of thousands of drugs that have been studies in vitro, in animals, and in humans, but only ~1,500 new chemicals total that have ever been FDA approved. Treating FDA approval as being synonymous with evidence-based thinking just shows that people don't actually understand either. Some people don't use a drug unless it's been on the market for 20+ years, other people will try something based on a single anecdote. There is no one right answer, it depends on the balance of the evidence, ancillary beliefs, preferences, the context, etc. The right decision is different for every person and every situation, so all this purely speculative criticism of Steve Jobs' decision-making process is completely unwarranted.
I have a very mixed reaction to these "like us on Facebook" or "post this ad to Twitter" deals. I know it's not much of a burden, it doesn't cost anything, and the company is under no obligation to give away their product. But it still seems dirty. Maybe there should be some voluntary fair-practice standards for stuff like this. No purchase required, no social whoring required.
This also happened to me. The problem was that the fraud was coming from one of their "Trusted Entities" (Best Buy). So on day 1 I had $500 worth of fraudulent charges, and on day 2 I had to call them back and let them know of more fraudulent charges.
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Freshly cut grass has the greatest staining ability. My sneakers turn green only when I mow a green lawn on foot. Had Steve been walking behind a lawnmower? I know I enjoy cathartic effects from clipping grass. Having billions of dollars and fans shouldn't change that.
The best Python alternative looks like TornadIO:

https://github.com/MrJoes/tornadio

Does the same stuff as Socket.IO, but in Python. Probably not as widely used as Socket.IO, but it looks really nice.
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You could have copied the card and months later charged something on it. Someone else than the owner was in possession of that card, it was the right thing to cancel it.
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There's a lot of nonsense in your comment

> jumped ship to the Mac when the Lisa tanked.

Jobs was taken off the Lisa team before it even shipped (he joined the Mac in 1982, the Lisa did not ship before '83)

> The OS X technology was written by NeXT before Apple bought them.

Of course, what would have been the point of buying NeXT otherwise? NeXT was founded by Jobs.

> iPod (etc.) was a design win and a business win, but Jobs just helped hire good people.

Most of them he actually brought with him from NeXT (the NeXT acquisition has often been referred to as a takeover). Or he found rotting inside Apple itself (Ive had been working for Apple for 5 years before Jobs came back and put him in charge of Industrial Design). And Jobs's main role has never been to be in the production trenches (it's easy to see that from Folklore.org), I don't understand what you're trying to achieve taking down irrelevant strawmen.

> But seriously- the man was a front man for great technology that people use.

What you're trying to achieve is apparently being high as a kite.
> Maybe that'd make for a good startup? We outsource your government!

It's been tried, and it was incredibly profitable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company

Indeed, it was in a sense the origin of the modern limited-liability corporation, the foundation of modern capitalism. Not so good for the people whose government was outsourced, though.
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I guess I considering myself in the middle. I'm extremely passionate about a handful of topics. But at the same time I've learned to not allow it to alienate myself from the majority. The alienation is where I consider the edge to start. It's counter productive because you're just viewed as a crazy.

I think we agree but our scales of the edges and the middle might be different.
[citation needed] — the Italian Wikipedia still says, "Sono stati proposti degli emendamenti, ma le modifiche al disegno di legge non sono ancora state approvate in via definitiva."
In Canada there is assumed permission unless no trespassing signs are put up (in the bush you even have right of way, they can't legally stop you!).

Also, in areas where you are legally allowed to hunt the land owner has to put up markings that mean "no, I do not give you permission to hunt" if they do not want you to hunt.
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That wouldn't be relevant though. No one disputes the fact that Olson would have the copyright to his own work.
Whatever you want, as long as it works.

Personally, I think that some kind of 'civil disorder' will happen sometime in the not-so-far future.
Not that I would like it, but I fear it's inevitable if things keep getting worse like they're doing now (and have constantly been doing for the past decades).
> I now nag each of my friends and family in having an annual health check.

I had an aunt and an uncle (from different sides and don't know each other) fight off cancer 5 years ago. After they were deemed "cured", they still didn't learn the lesson of an annual health check. Around 1 year ago they both started to feel strange symptoms and went to checkup again. They found out not only had the cancer recurred but that it had spread to many parts of their bodies. The doctors recommended a couple of treatments but weeks later they said there was nothing more they could do.

In July and August they both passed away, within 3 weeks of each other. (Right after my grandmother too, and of course it's been emotional for me.)

It appears this applied to S.J too. (If he died of recurring cancer.)

But, convincing anyone (including me, a 21 year old) of annual checkup is hard. The thinking goes: we've been fine for all our lives/ is too young to get sick, why worry?
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There was no contract. There was prosperity, which comes in cycles. Status quo is not a guarantee. Welcome to the real world, kid - there's no Tooth Fairy either.

You can get the education, or at least well under way with it, for free before committing to an expensive certification process. I had the basics of computer engineering down (and that long before free online education - get thee hence to the library!) before shelling out lots of cash for certification. Lacking certification, you can create proof via a portfolio. Lacking openings, you can create one (this IS the reason for ycombinator.com, ya know).

And no, getting the degree isn't assurance of work. When I came out with a respectable CE degree, the market was way down and I had to do tech support for 1.5 years, and got that gig much because my personal education efforts gave me a foot in the door pre-graduation.

This protest is indeed about something broken: the failure of education to tell kids that nobody owes you anything (despite the demands for free food/clothing/shelter/education/debt/entertainment), that having a degree doesn't guarantee a job (improves odds, but no assurance), and that living wages cannot be just legislated/declared into existence. Sorry, not everyone is going to tell you everything you need to know, including how harsh the real world can be. Nobody said there was a "get degree = get job" contract.

If those protesters would quit yelling at strawmen and decided to pool their talents and technology (enough laptops & smartphones to do it) to create marketable goods/services, they'd have the jobs they're demanding. They sure have the time & opportunity & resources right now.
> a loving family man

He denied paternity of his daughter Lisa, even testifying in court that he was infertile. Lisa's mother was on welfare for a time because of this. So if you are going to say he was a loving father, you should also mention that he was a neglectful one.

Hero worship is empty. If you want to admire something, admire the man, not some two dimensional pr bullshit.
So.. It looks like we are going to direction, where browsers will be used to play action games in (probably, not really near) future.. Same direction mobile development..
Rich people can buy apple products, lots of poor people have been killed and maimed by landmines. It's best not to be so glib about how important a god to consumers was when some people did important charitable things despite being a figure in the tabloids.
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"There is no grass in Moscone West."

There's a gigantic grass lawn right next door, in Moscone Center.

Steve Jobs was a great man, but this remembrance hit a sour note for me. It's not about Steve Jobs, so much as it's about an outsider's fantasy of what Jobs' (very private) inner life was like. And if this bears no resemblance to reality, it's not a remembrance at all. It could even be offensive to the people who knew him best.

Remember the man for the person that he was, not for the person that you imagined him to be.
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I'm not personally mourning Steve Jobs' death
My condolences to his family and friends. He made a lot of money. He indirectly made a lot of people happy with the products and services provided by companies for which he worked. He was a good front man. Woz made the Apple computer, he just helped sell it. He didn't make the Mac, he just joined the Mac team after the Lisa failed. He didn't make the iPod, iTouch, iPhone, iPad, or iAnything. He helped hire good people, and between he and Tim Cook, helped lead them and provide advice. He was a great man. And, I'm sure that his family is grateful for your praise. But, even though I use Apple products and loved my Apple as a kid through college, I do not attribute to Steve all that you do. Cancer is a completely terrible way to die. If you want to do a tribute to Steve, consider donating time or effort toward getting rid of it. I personally don't appreciate all of these token posts making the man seem like a God. In my opinion, he wasn't.
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Modifications have been accepted to the proposal; although it still has to go through parliament.