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Yes, yes he did. He was a pioneer in the personal computer revolution in the late 70s. The Apple I/II were trailblazers, they accelerated the PC revolution by who knows how many years. Without Apple how long would it have taken for IBM to take interest in the PC market, would they have decided to enter it? The iPod and the apple music store did a lot to legitimize digital delivery of media and fundamentally advanced the music industry by years. Look at books, video, and software, which are in many cases years behind music in terms of the industry being coherent about licensing and being accepting to digital delivery. And that doesn't touch on all the other ways Jobs has affected the industry and so much else.

Yes, he really has changed the world, and in a few key instances almost unquestionably for the better.
CNBS Titans: Steve Jobs
It would certainly reduce liquidity and increase spreads, but I think that's the point. Stocks are not supposed to be a terribly liquid instrument, yet volume continues to outpace growth in the market. It's true that trading in Sweden basically moved to London when they tried this, which is part of why now you're seeing a push against this unless the entire EU hops on board, or even the entire world (however it will not happen in New York in a million years).

There are lessons to be learned from Sweden's experience, but I'm not sure you can necessarily point to as a definitive case study and say "See? It won't work."
Perhaps, but it's something tons of people would use, and it's the difference between people using your tool or not imo.
Ha yeah, I saw the same thing & lol'd ;)
We're getting meta-meta now...
But its a cool effect.
Panic Cofounder Steven Frank on Steve Jobs
I'm the same way; unfortunately, my fiancee is very much not, and it's a continuous source of friction between the two of us.

One of my favorite feelings in the world is an empty room, because it's as empty of objects as it is full of possibility.
Seriously, it's about time...
Westboro Baptist Church says (via iPhone) it will protest Steve Jobs Funeral
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Steve Jobs on Passion
Certified check from Steve Jobs to Lucasfilm, And Pixar
Certified check for $5 million from Steve Jobs to Lucasfilm, Certified check for $1 million from Steve Jobs to Pixar, the first installment of the $5 million capitalization.
The Definitive Steve Jobs
Seriously, a dozen or so articles is one thing, but this is absurd. There is no need to flood everything else off HN.

There are not even other posts in the new feed for me to read or vote up.
What's more interesting than that is the rise:

http://i.imgur.com/agfbF.png

21,300% in the last 24 hours. As predicted :)
Jobs Biography pre-sales rank jumped 21,300% in the last 24 hours
PCR machine?
It doesn't do a thing except make you feel better.
I saw the sad news on another site and came here for confirmation: saw every single story was about Steve Jobs, and then reflected how appropriate it was. There's few people of the stature of Steve Jobs.
Seems to be working fine to me.
Today is a sad day. A great man died, and we should honor that. This may sound cold hearted, but I come to Hacker News to read interesting discussions about tech and startups, not to see 30 articles about the same issue. Several articles discussing the event would be perfectly fine, but this has become absurd.
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Converting death into ad impressions
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The design of his apartment in this is very much like the design of everything Apple ships. What a cohesive life this man led.
Any chance you can keep it around and make it customizable?
>> How did he spend the last 8 years of his life? Enjoying himself? No. He drove himself and Apple to build the next generation of the personal computer.

Make no mistake: he loved every minute of it.
I just noticed that even Microsoft are carrying a notice on their homepage. Not as prominently, but still.
My response wasn't emotional, it was incredulous. Parker's a smart guy; I was surprised he made such a statement.

It would be as if Henry Ford, at 100 and whatever, claimed that no car had ever matched the Model T until the 2012 Lamborghini Aventador. It's just a clearly false statement, and something that inspires incredulity on the part of those hearing it, especially from a guy like Ford/Parker.
"Literally the most important single figure in all of computer technology just died"

That man died in 1954.
As engineers and logicians, we almost always ask, how? But this is one of the times that I want to ask, why? :'(
What india badly needs is giving its village dweling population access to good basic education.

I hope this computer facilitates that need. I have visited rural parts and have seen schools that barely have the most basic infrastructure such as a proper school building and full time teacher.
An apology letter to apple. and Facebook got new iOS app & developer platform
Steve Jobs testing Photo Booth in 2005
It's sad to think about, but with the flood of text being printed I wonder how much of it was pre-written and how much of it was simply pre-thought as those in the circles heard word.
Full geek
amplia gama para lo geek
Here we go again. Last time we saw a similar headline, it did not end well for either comany. Hope the rumor dies away soon.
Agreed.

cperciva has demonstrated a complete lack of tact or class, but neither of these changes the fact that he does make an excellent product.
Why? It's common practice to pre-write obituaries for famous people, no matter how healthy they are. And it leads to a better obit that can be richer because of the time invested in it beforehand (the Economist's obits are usually very well done).
Jobs is more immediate than Steinman. Steinman does invaluable research out of the public eye. Jobs thrusts himself into public consciousness and directly impacts US society with his widely used and advertised products.
Steve Jobs personally shipped Macs to Ain't It Cool's Harry & all his family
Yes indeed. I think it is time to take a break from Hacker News for a couple of days until it blows over.
Not to be a douche(I shed some tears upon hearing the news and remain a tad shocked), but the accuracy of the above statement by Obama is very questionable IMO. Vast majority of the world still doesn't own an Apple device, I'd argue. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

That said, I did hear the news from my iPhone. And this comment? It's also coming from the same thing.
Stackoverflow System Wide Dedication to Steve Jobs
Are you sure? We're close to growing organs in labs.
Measureable Impact: Every frontpage link about Steve Jobs
Yes. Fuck off, come back in 3 days.
Finally shakespeare has his answer, here came a man greater than Ceaser, when comes another Steve Jobs?
RIP Steve, you're memory will never die.
Did he make an account just to say this? I thought Google's execs avoided G+ for the most part.
Well said - the only Apple product I've had are iPod's and I have no desire to use Macs, but Jobs did make a huge dent and shaped a lot of people all over the world. It's a sad day when a visionary like him passes.
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What is wrong with this guy. All he can think about is his own rumor mill and credibility. It is pathetic.
How Steve Jobs rewired our lives -- and raised our expectations
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Steve Jobs's career literally defined the tech entrepreneur dream that this site is all about.

He can own it completely for a few hours. It's fine with me.
Black band on above the links on HN, a pay of respect to Steve Jobs?
What's All This Fuss About Erlang?
Steve gave massive credit to the talent and sweat of Apple's engineers and designers in nearly every keynote. He was as humble as you could expect of a CEO.
Sergey regularly posts photos, ever since the launch of G+ field trial.
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Steve Jobs Quotes
RIP Steve
Steve Jobs' Biological Father, Abdulfattah John Jandali
Exactly. One is relevant to my career and chosen hobby, the other is not.
This. While I'd done a little scripting, I was never interested in working in software development. It made me think of boring/painful win32 programs. After I graduated college I skipped around through sales jobs I hated and was terrible at. And then I got an iOS device (2g iPod Touch) for my birthday, and I was suddenly very interested in programming. The way that device was so effortless to use, powerful (for its size), and fun captivated me. Within a year of receiving that that device I was roughly a third of the way through a CS degree (post baccalaureate), going to school part time and paying for it with my part time job (working at an Apple Store). I've been a paid professional developer for almost two years now, primarily working on iOS stuff. And I really like what I do. It sounds stupid, but I really don't know what I'd be doing now if I hadn't gotten that iPod Touch.

Thanks Steve, I certainly feel like you've done something for me even though I've never met you.
With and without Steve Jobs.
Study shows humans still evolving
Be civil.
Remembering Steve Jobs in China
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JS has bad parts, but it has good parts as well. And those parts are pretty great.

PHP is all bad parts. Easily the most inconsistent, poorly designed language in popular use today.
Yes.

Plus, anyone who wants something else can simply click "More" at the bottom of the page.
My favorite CSSilize.com is missing for PSD to XHTML conversion and PMS.
As with most, I'm pleasantly surprised by the emotions in me related to Steve Jobs' death. I've only ever used an iPod. I guess this is testament to the person he was. Screw the tech stuff.
Every post on Hacker News is about Steve Jobs
I'm just expressing how the thousands of people who voted up those stories feel.
unfortunately, it doesn't look like we'll get the full experience.
Why? Is there more insight to be added? Lets not confuse grieving with insightful technical conversation.
"I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo."
IPhone's new Micro USB Adapter complies with EU charger standards
Did Kiefer project succeed? I hadn't heard about it.

In any case, I wonder how much as Erlang risen in popularity since the article was written (2007).
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The question is not whether to buy, but how many to buy.
That doesn't remove the need to be civil.
"much of the world" not "most of the world"

It's a subtle difference in wording, but the meaning is very different.
It's an excellent design, and a fine tribute.
Someone I knew said a while back "No tech company has ever come back from decline." I immediately thought of (what I feel is now the canonical counterexample) Apple. So many tech companies, and CEOs who have never been acquainted with failure, and have arrogance that's mostly a result of being in the right place and the right time.

And one who was fired, watched his company driven right to the precipice, and brought it back.

The arc of a hero.

August 6, 1997. Greatness doesn't happen at the top but at the bottom:
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.html
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What Apple is missing is a man whose vision for a product is exactly what the consumer wants....two years ahead of time (at least).
Posted on Aug 26th, 2011?
Put an Apple on it
Unaired "Here's to the crazy ones" ad narrated by Steve
Legitimate articles not about Steve Jobs are currently being flagged down to 'dead' in the new section. In the meantime, my ability to flag articles has seemingly been revoked.

What an awesome system. What an awesome tribute.
When he stepped down. Notice the post itself doesn't actually say anything about his death.
Technology, not Products
This was my favorite part of "In the Plex" by Steven Levey. Sergey and Larry wanted Jobs to be their CEO. They had met with a number of CEO's in Silicon Valley and picked Jobs because of how well he impressed them. Also because he was the “He was the only candidate who had been to Burning Man". Pretty cool if you ask me. RIP STEVE
The species over the individual "narrative" exists because it is a fact of evolution. Life is a pattern of self-replication, and it is at the level of the gene that natural selection works to make this pattern more robust. The whole concept of having an individual "over" a species is so quaintly human. The universe, and the physical processes within it that are life, have no concern for such silly concepts. To put so much stock into the individual (and such people are always really talking about themselves), is completely egocentric. We tell ourselves stories about how important and special we are to validate our own existences, and that's fine, it makes some of us feel better. But we ignore the macro-processes that even allowed our existences at our own peril. Guess what, with no species, there are no individuals to glorify.

>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?

The evolutionary game is much more complicated than you imagine it to be. Humans have evolved to be social animals. Someone who is too old to procreate can still watch after young, pass knowledge on to them, etc., which increases their fitness. This is such a fundamental misunderstanding, you have no reason to be so confident in such matters.
It was obvious he knew the end was near. He would never have stepped out of running Apple until he new for sure he wouldn't be around much longer. The moment he resigned as CEO I knew the doctors had told him it was only a matter of time and with pancreatic cancer once that point comes it moves very quickly. Not at all surprised it was measured in weeks.
The post tags include "death" and "RIP". probably a server misconfiguration tho.
How very well said.... I feel much the same way.
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As an adherent to minimalisim, I agree- to an extent. I find living long-term in a room that feels barren makes life, feel lifeless, and it becomes difficult to maintain vigor and zest.

I suspect it's a big part of why monks are always so somber. But if I need help with anything, it is being alive- I have enough somber in me for a whole monastary.
I know there may not be many Catholics on this board, but just in case. In nómine Patris et Fílii et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.
Steve Jobs over the years (slideshow)
Here are some points I'd like to discuss:

1. It's clearly not beneficial to "never settle" for everything. Some things
you _do_ settle on, hell you settle on them _out of habit_. Other things,
like your career or love life, is not so clear. But I believe the "never
settle" attitude and everything that comes with it is just useful all by
itself, even though you're most likely to end up with a dead end job and die
alone or with someone who hates you. Even so, the linked article is a good
reminder that it's not enough to "find what you love, then do it"; you have to
not be the ~99% of people who either can't find such a thing (not for lack of
trying), or be stuck doing it badly. Cal Newport poses "love what you're doing"
as an alternative; but is that just consolation for being a slave in whatever
system you're working in?

2. Steve Jobs is known for having a personality cult. Many people on this very
site have expressed that they are _unusually_ deeply affected by his death,
it's kind of scary. I say this as someone who is sad that he died and as
someone who uses Apple products on a daily basis. But the hero worship? I think
there's something more to this part. I think most people aren't really engaged
with their lives and actually despise them. The second the slightest _external_
source of inspiration appears, they're engaged and ready to do their life's
work. And this is what Steve Jobs is good at doing, more than anything else:
inspiring people to work harder for his company by essentially exploiting basic
human psychology about feeling effective and belonging to a community. So does
the world really just belong to the people who can get away with the most
social manipulation? Or does this system of social manipulators being at the
top only work in cultures like in America? I just wish there was some better
way of doing things, to be engaged in life but not in service of a
_personality_, either directly or indirectly. Or is that the only real point to
life that has any behavioral consequences?

3. Steve Jobs was probably the biggest idea man ever. It is possible to
categorize people into two groups: those who have the idea and those who do
the implementation. Steve Jobs was good at bringing implementors together to
build around a certain idea. But, often, implementors feel that they don't get
enough credit, either monetarily or socially, for what they do. Yet, from
personal experience, I think it's better if possible to be both at the same
time. Then you know both the problem and solution in intimate detail, and don't
have to deal with people, either manipulating them into doing work for you or
feeling resentful at being manipulated. And for the technical side, there are a
lot of nice force multipliers in the form of programming languages and
libraries. But if everyone wants to be this, then we all end up working alone
or with as few people as possible. How does one balance the loneliness of
being both the idea guy and implementor against the resentment involved in
being just one of them? Or is there some different perspective I haven't
considered that isn't feel-good bullshit about the members of a team being
"equally" valuable?
Steve was a leader and his skill was recognizing the good inventions and innovations between the chaff.
As a poli sci major one could make a poli sci comment out of anything.
More likely those tags were added afterwards.
What's in a Name? iPhone 4S -- "For Steve"
hugh3 is talking about first derivative of the number of illegals, and you're talking about the second derivative.
Does anyone know the status of Systemtap these days? Last time I checked it seemed to only work on Fedora, with hardly any documentation.

On a related note, I seriously doubt that playing license games gives Oracle any advantage at all. Single vendor, single distribution *nix projects have a tendency to wither, die, and get left behind.
Tears and tribute for Steve Jobs in China
To the downvoters of this comment:

"And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right."
If you're on /classic, pg's "hubs" post is currently #28.
Django is capable but not really what developers expect from MVC, and other MVC frameworks for Python have much less traction.

Wow, that's a pretty strong statement. I would like to see some sources for it or at least further explanations.
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Subtle. I was expecting a doodle. Didn't see the link.
People care about faces they know about.

Normal people don't have knowledge about scientists or engineers in our field that helped changed the world. It is partly sad, as they do know about the crackheads that appear on MTV, and I would bet it would be major news if Britney Spears would die.

Personally I am not offended that Steve Jobs is getting so much attention. At least here's someone that we can partly identify with, here's someone that did bring real value and who's death does reach normal people.

And I don't know how much has Steve changed my life with the work he did on Apple, but he definitely changed my life with his speech at Standford, which I watched on Youtube from hundreds of miles away from where it happened, on an iPod Touch.
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The Updated Book off Jobs (1983)
I have this one taped to my wall.

"The problem with the Internet Startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it. That's somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That's when you find out who you are and what your values are." --Steve Jobs

When things get tough, I read that and remind myself to keep going.
Ah, obviously meant "cannot be overstated". Sigh. Not thinking too straight!
This is more a sad reflection on HN than sad news.
I hear you. The Rdio and Mog web interfaces are stunning...in many ways better than iTunes and Spotify. But I still feel there is an impermanence or fleeting feel to a web site when it comes to a music player.

And I do think incorporation of the unclouded content is a bona fide advantage.
I believe it was in his commencement address that he said something to the effect of, there will be days when you look in the mirror and have to say, I don't want to work today. But you do anyway. But if there are enough of these days in a row, you know you need to make a change.
Does it means the startup world has frozen? There is no way one can get any sort of news past Jobs' obituary. Meh, back to work. This is a great opportunity to play the "what would Steve Jobs do?" game and hack around our design specs today.
I think they were more of 'press rivals' than actual rivals.
30/30 HN news talk about Steve Jobs
I believe its something unique in HN at least for the time i've been lurking.. Curious at least

http://bayimg.com/pAkmKaAdF

R.I.P

My first submission and with such a `trending topic` so I'm a bit nervous about it.. hope everything it's ok!
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its a pure javascript "screen" sharing app.
Inspiration from Steve Jobs
You're right, cancer is not just one disease.

Aging will probably get solved relatively soon, as will cancer, we just need the technology.

http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag...
Considering he stepped down on the 25th, this post is on the 26th, and it is titled "Thanks", I'm inclined to believe it is not an accidental misconfiguration.
A sense of simplicity even 30 years ago
Zwieback - that's the coolest alias I've seen for a long time :-D Are you plattdeutsch?