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The author made a very astute point that I haven't seen mentioned online before (but one that immediately occurred to me when I heard people bitching about Apple not going to 4+ inch screens). His single data point illustrates a general problem: one handed operation for people with a wide-range of hand sizes.

Remember, Apple sells one basic body shape to its entire market. No single Android phone sells anything comparable to as many units as the iPhone. The body shape has to be usable for 95% of Apple's potential market, which includes everything from teenage girls to grown men. Apple undoubtedly thought about exactly the problem the author raised.
mourning somebody who is important to the community probably supersedes the general rules of posting to that community. at least in my opinion.
We loved SJ because he won. He's that person in all of us who knows we are right and has to fight the battle against those who are obviously wrong. SJ proved that you can win as long as you don't give up.

We'll never know if somebody would have pulled off the same feats if SJ hadn't. Even today with Apple's shining examples of how to do it right other companies (Google, Yahoo, MS) manage to screw up UX so wonderfully.
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It's funny, because it makes me realize that for me, "rewatchability" is in large part all about catching all the details I missed the first time around. But I'm not sure if it's like that for other people or not. And it doesn't necessarily mean that I didn't enjoy it at least once. Some things are only good once. After that, there's just no point in watching them again.
It only makes sense if every person on the planet all have the same size hands and the same length thumbs.
I alway thought that the whole point of EveO was that you were locked permanently locked into your ship (like The Matrix meat batteries). I had no idea there was supposed to be a world beyond the ship.
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1. The standards of what makes it to the front page are basically `whatever this, a community of mostly intellectuals and entrepreneurs, likes at any given time'. The admins' role is just to step in when things get abusive.

2. Now is not the time for these meta-discussions.

3. You were off-topic. (So am I, admittedly.)
You could also use 13 months of 28 days each - that totals 364 days as well.
Indeed. I could rewatch some movies effectively an infinite number of times. But that doesn't mean I think they are the best films, or the films I would put at the top of the list of recommendations for a friend.
I own both an iPhone and an iPad and a Kindle. I'd tell you: for reading stuff, nothing beats the Kindle. PDFs though, not so much. You just can't comfortably put a letter page on a 7 inch screen.

That said, I would not buy an iPad again. I would by a Kindle instead. Just some food for thought regarding your PDF reading needs.
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Maybe that's why Apple is pushing for voice recognition with Siri.

I still think people like big screens on smartphones and thumbs be damned plus nobody seems to like voice recognition or Dragon Dictate would be on every PC.
3-4 years ago is not when the ipod got big. 3-4 years ago is when the iphone came out.
This is good to see - I don't think any one person has had more influence on the way we use computers/technology than Steve did.

It felt good to know that someone with his vision also had the power to create and guide new technologies and inovations within many industries. Now that singular force is gone. Hopefully Apple, or the other major players are able to continue to innovate and not just add better specs and more features.
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My understanding from having talked to Nuance employees is that they're really a series of basically independent companies. Hopefully Swype can keep things together: I'm a fan of their product.
I rather liked it too, and I especially liked it later on when there were just a couple of other links, like the first blades of grass poking through melting snow at the beginning of spring.
A somewhat off-topic rant, because the site is down, but hear me out:

What I wouldn't give for a decent micropayments platform. One that would allow me to pay $0.50 a month for an ad-free social network. Facebook currently averages around $0.25 a month in ad revenue per user, so it'd double that income. Let me pay $0.25 a month to subscribe to a blog. Let me pay $1.50 a month to subscribe to the New York Times. Let me tip $0.10 for an article I like, or pay $0.75 for lifetime access to a forum.

We've heard a lot about how "if you're not paying, then you are the product." Well, give me the option to pay, and never have to see an ad, or have my data mined and sold to advertisers. I would pay gladly.

I looked into different ways to do this, and the tech would not be hard. It's really more of a business and legal issue than anything.

But I really think it would change the web, and for the better. Sometimes, really cheap is better than free. As in beer, anyways.
Steve was directly or indirectly responsible for a lot of people's lives and livelihoods here. Every mobile developer, everyone running Rails or Django on a Macbook, everyone interested in the aesthetics of product design...that's probably 90% of HN that's been shaped for the better by his life. It's appropriate that we give him a few hours on a homepage as a tribute. We're a virtual community so we can't do a 21-gun salute, but we sure can do a 30-post homepage.

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I'm not sure many OS X users will enjoy that drawing much.

It's just too damn jarring to see that thing pop-up. Pretty much the only place I see it is plugging my iPhone 2g into my Mac / Xcode.
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Sites all want to sell you more later. It's expensive to acquire customers so showing more stuff to people who've already bought stuff is cheaper than finding new people to sell to.

One day maybe the process won't be so manual and will still protect our privacy.
Actually, I had been offline all afternoon, and only learned of it when I opened up HN. I was stunned by the top story, and it was good 3 or 4 minutes before I noticed that the entire front page was devoted to Steve. At that point I got something in my eye and had to close my laptop.
Two things are very interesting to me here:

- This 100% Steve Jobs page was actually organically generated.

- Several members of the community took screen/snapshots yesterday when they discovered the frontpage like this.

Those things make me realize how like-minded can some of the members in this community be.
I took a screenshot of HN yesterday. I felt this was a great tribute to Steve — demonstrates how many of our lives he touched and the respect he commands.
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Something about this is just heartbreaking. I can't put my finger on it...
This type of stories of a perfect size when small handed children use smartphones remind me of dogma created in the name of religion, which were easily falsified by science.
The Samsung Galaxy S II has sold more than ten million units these past few months, the screen size doesn't seem to bother anyone.

Apple gets a lot of things right, but come on, let's not imagine that every single thing they do is perfectly thought out.
You really think short-long-short-short-long is better? It seems confusing enough to be of dubious value. Why not have seasons and months be equivalent and each equal to 73 days in length? That way you'd had the 50th day of summer, for example. Sure it would require a new season, but you reduce complexity quite a bit and there is no reason to keep the existing 12 month requirement. You can align the first month/season with the first of the year and add a 0-day for leap years.

Yeah, it's kind of fun to think about...
Be that as it may, appeals are quite expensive and I suspect that whatever decision they'll make on that will have more to do with finances than free speech.

That said, in an appeal, you generally list any and every complaint about the lower court's errors that has any chance of success. I don't know enough about the relevant laws to say whether or not this was an abuse of the court's discretion (even though I feel that it was an abuse), though.

As an aside, I really wonder how he happened to find out about a comment in a Chinese newspaper, which would presumably be in Chinese? I have to assume that the plaintiff dug that up, because learning enough hanzi to read one is pretty difficult.
Probably not that different from the Nokia N95, except with a whole new bunch of features tacked on. Recalling at the time of the release of the N95 it utterly, completely stomped all over the iphone from a feature checklist perspective, and yet in the market it made almost no difference at all.
I think the image is more supposed to show how harsh and unyielding Eve Online can be. The game offers many ways in which the players can work together or screw each other. It's not for the faint hearted :-)

The penalties for dying are higher than in games like WoW, and you can everywhere be killed by players. There is no real safe haven (though you have dangerous and even more dangerous space) That does make it realistic and give to interesting game dynamics.

I don't have time nor motivation to play time sink games any more these days, but I did enjoy it a lot more than, for example, WoW.
Even the next day, I'm still having trouble coming to grips with this.

This affected me far more than I could have expected. Even though I never once met Steve in person, I'm profoundly affected in so many ways by his clarity of vision, drive, steadfast beliefs, and in the end, the way he dealt with his mortality.

A sad, sad day.
What on earth are you talking about? If you were designing a phone for the mass market, wouldn't you consider one-handed operability?

Apparently, this is why Apple makes so much money. Because some people design phones without considering that 13 y/o girls texting and posting on Facebook are a core demographic.
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This is purely a way to rate movies for entertainment value. Which means although the method may be better, the end result is very likely to barely differ from the current abysmal state of IMDB ratings.
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Every summer Steve had a talk with the Apple interns. In 2008, I was there (at what, as far as I know, would end up being his last intern talk). One question came from the audience: "What is your dream?"

After a beat, his dead-pan response: "To not be asked questions like that."
And patrickthomas went from 0 to 3335 karma in a single post.
Yes, I owned several MP3 players of the era, one of them an iPod video. I found the ipod at the time to be one of the most frustrating to load media onto - as one memorable example, it wouldn't let me load .mp4s into the 'TV' folder, because .mp4s are 'Movies'. No argument will be entered into. wtf?

Loading music was no better or worse than other players I had, but iTunes was still horrendous bloatware. Why do I need to install Quicktime - absolutely and utterly useless to me - to simply move files from hard drive to ipod?! Some MP3 players I had just let you drag and drop with a file explorer and they would 'just work', plus you could use the software to do it 'properly' if you felt like. One chinese knock-off I had simply played the songs in the order you copied them on, which was weird :) Then there's things like radios - ipod had none, despite it being a clear feature people wanted for years.

But yes, I had several MP3 players of the era, and the ipod was nothing special in terms of user experience. The hardware case was pretty, admittedly.

People are viewing the early digital music player market with the rosy-coloured glasses of historical revisionism. Apple are top dog now, so it somehow stands to reason they always were? Logical fallacy. The early ipods weren't great, and it wasn't Apple out there leading us all into the digital music new world, there was a passel of competitors.

I think you also underestimate marketing - higher market share does not mean that the product is inherently better (betamax vs VHS, anyone? Or the OS war of your choice?). Apple has an incredible marketing team, and frankly good marketing does mean something significant, or there wouldn't be so much money in it.
It's still broken, just differently (maybe better) broken.

Films, music, books, etc. are not about some abstract universal gradation of quality that a large enough, good enough statistical sampling of viewers will reveal with increasing precision. No, they are art. Enjoyment and appreciation of art is a matter of personal taste, which is not, will not, and cannot be universal for everyone.

That's why up/down votes are decent enough ratings systems despite their crudeness, all they do is tell people whether or not taking the effort to find out if a piece of art suits your personal taste is likely to be worthwhile.

Ultimately what ratings are trying to get at is recommendations. The simplest idea being to measure the average opinion of everyone and present the highest rated works as recommendations. However, more sophisticated systems which try to find people with similar taste and recommend to you things that they seem to like but you haven't been exposed to are likely to be more successful, though significantly more complex to implement. It seems unlikely that even that represents the limit of improvement for the problem, but nobody's done much better yet.
Thanks for a much needed laugh amongst all these tributes.
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I did a screen grab at ~10:00 PM PST. I never planned on posting it, but I felt it was the "where were you when you found out JFK / Elvis / etc. died" moment of the tech generation and wanted to capture it.
Any rating system works great if all the ratings come from people with similar tastes as yours.
Not sure why this got downmodded. The ipod came out in 2001. It didn't really take off until 2004. The guy I'm responding to is talking about UX from 2007-08, well after the maturation of the digital music player. iRiver sucking in 2007 does not mean that the iPod didn't suck in 2002.
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The title should make clear the link is to a piece written in January 2011, when the real Steve took a medical leave of absence.

For a more recent item by Dan Lyons, see his rambling but powerful eulogy: http://www.fakesteve.net/2011/10/one-last-thing-r-i-p-steve-...
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Someone signed up for their Wells Fargo account with my email address. For weeks, I tried to get in contact with Wells Fargo about the problem. I spent a lot of time on the phone with the 'security team' and nothing ever came of it. In the end, I kept receiving all of this person's banking information.

It wasn't so much a security problem so much as it was annoying to get this person's banking info all the time. (I assume I would have needed more than access to email to get into his account.)

In the end, after several phone calls and then tweeting at Wells Fargo, it was the Facebook reps that were able to get someone to call me and sort the problem out. The rep who called even verified that the first three of my social didn't match the account holder, so it wasn't identity theft.

Completely annoying but in the end, it just took finding that one person that understood and cared to help.
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> I don't think any one person has had more influence on the way we use computers/technology than Steve did.

Just wondering, if I don't use macs, smartphones and tablets, do I still owe it to him for the way I use computers/technology?
Since we're sharing :) https://twitter.com/#!/invisiblefunnel/status/12184339675835...
Noticed the same thing and started adding to a small collection of tributes from various sites: http://gim.ie/bfmX
Notice how its 10.5 with the iOS 5 betas and not 11?
I saw 30/30. My first thought was that it's a special filter for the occasion. Amazing.
Pretty cool, 724 days, no comments, one submission, 3346 karma. Probably not something work trying to avoid in a web based reputation system.
Very presumptuous that your fingers are the size of everyone elses that uses the iPhone.

The average length of an adult male hand is 189 mm, while the average length of an adult female hand is 172 mm. The Females had at AVERAGE is 17mm smaller than their male counterpart.

With this in mind and simple mathematics, your theory is completely wrong.
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The judge's directions were overly-specific but I think his intention was quite clear. If you're arrested and put in badly-designed handcuffs that you can open with no effort, I don't recommend taking them off, regardless.

Historical lesson: I had just joined Microsoft in 1996 when it interpreted a court order literally, using this same attitude, and released a version of Windows without any Internet Explorer DLLs, which was of course not functional. Despite this being exactly what he'd ordered, the judge interpreted this as the corporate equivalent of a toddler having a tantrum, and things went (way) downhill from there.
Yes. Any major operating system or computing device from the last decade or so (give or take a few decades) has been in stiff competition with the operating systems and computing devices that Apple produced under Steve Jobs, and they have all been strongly influenced by (modeled after?) those Apple products with which they competed. Even something as basic as his insistence that things should be easy to use forced everyone else to improve their products' usability, even change the way they think about designing software in order to make usability a priority, in order to catch up.
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Steve Jobs gave us the future? I beg to differ.
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How do you know?

EDIT: oh, I really don't know about that. I spend my days using GNU/Linux, Emacs, C/C++ (GCC) and related free libraries/tools. Even my window manager is emacs-user friendly. If anybody, the most influential person wrt my computing is Richard Stallman.
The (somewhat clumsy) point alperakgun was trying to make is that there's no such thing as one-size-fits-all, and it would be somewhat silly to only release a phone in a single size if your goal is to let everyone comfortably operate their phone with one hand. There's too much variation in hand sizes to properly achieve that goal. For some it will be too small, for others too large, and for some just right.
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Apple's in the driver's seat when it comes to the components and software it uses. Compare to Dell.

Apple created the modern smartphone and enjoys the lionshare of the profits.

He's largely right, although perhaps every single word might not be 100% correct. Your complaints re this enjoyable piece feel quite pedantic.
This whole thread/story is a meta-discussion. Otherwise, I completely agree.
The real lie in those events is the promise to create a team in 48 hours. And I say this from my own experience. Kodesk won the grand prize of the jury of the Startup Weekend Brussels in last January and a week after the event, it was clear to me that I could just not create a business with people I had met a week before. Co-founding a company requires trust, complicity and complementarity. And if you don't have that, your "team" can blow up a good concept with a good visibility.
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Because we're so superficial and envy "success theatre". People around you don't really care about your profitability/business model. They just assume that you have figured everything out (otherwise why would anyone invest?! lol)
Doesn't it show how useless global karma is? Besides, I never voted someone down, I just ignore or vote up ..
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> Maybe he was a closet philanthropist.

Wasn't he a buddhist? My understanding is that buddhism encourages philanthropy without acknowledgement or attribution.
I'm not sure I would lay down so easy. I think at the very least you should have a your own lawyer look at your options and see what conclusion he/she comes up with.

I do agree with some of the others that this type of stuff happens more often then you think. Personally I'd be interested in know who the investors were and who the executives were. This could perhaps save some other developers from making the same mistake.

Sorry to hear about this, good luck.
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“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.” -- Steve Jobs

I desperately wish I was capable of seeing deeply into the meaning of that statement. I appreciate design, design thinking, human factors, etc..., but not nearly enough to understand it as the "fundamental soul," or how it (what?) expresses (how?) itself (who?).

If anyone here can provide a few words, or a pointer to some great communicator of design, I would very much appreciate it.
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