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There's not much to this. The only specific evidence he offers about Jobs's character is "stiffing early Apple employees out of stock options when the company first went public." Which (a) is an inaccurate description, because options were not so much the norm in the 1970s as they are now, and (b) may not have been, and in fact probably wasn't, even his decision.

Other than that, his only basis for the conclusions in this article is something we all know: Jobs was supposed to have been a difficult man.

This article may be correct, in the way a broken clock is twice a day. Jobs may well (a) have been a jerk in a way that would normally make someone ineffective as a manager, and (b) have had other qualities that compensated for that; and maybe (c) the latter qualities were extremely rare. But we are told practically nothing about (a), (b), or (c).

This would have been a better article if he'd just written
"Steve Jobs was successful, but beware of imitating his bad qualities, because most people couldn't get away with behaving like he did."
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I think the issue is that Apple has devoted plenty of resources to tweaking gestures so that two-finger swipes can be used for both scrolling and navigation. It's a hard problem to solve, but if it's done just right it works. Safari does it just fine.

Chrome is far too touchy about it, though. As soon as you hit the edge, you go back a page. Safari seems to take the velocity and acceleration into account in smarter ways.
Darn, Looks like a bug with the Couchdb View. I'll fix it in a bit.
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Ha! I found that postcard today. Here's the front and back.

http://ericjgruber.com/images/wufoo-thanks-front.jpg

http://ericjgruber.com/images/wufoo-thanks-rear.jpg

(Note: Frank, who the card was addressed to, was the cardholder on the account but I used it all over our site, to clarify.)
I'm glad this was written, in a way, although I think he's a bit too hard on Steve Jobs. From everything I've heard about the guy, he was a totally different man at Pixar.

When Jobs started Apple, he was young and very unpolished in his interpersonal style. When he re-joined it the culture had become something that he wasn't entirely responsible for, having been out of the company for over a decade. Also, the impression I've had of Jobs is that he was very harsh on VPs (whose high salaries and job status justify the difficulty) but not on lower-level employees.

That said, the worst thing about Steve Jobs isn't the man himself. It's the Fake Steve Jobs's out there. No, I don't mean the parody blogger. I mean the two-bit clowns who think that being "visionary" gives them the right to behave like complete assholes because that's what they understand Jobs's management style (I've never worked for him) to be.

There was a lot of good to Steve Jobs, and apparently a lot about him that was difficult. A lot of people assume they have the good and that it allows them to be difficult. That's toxic.

The "fake Steve" (he actually cited Steve Jobs to justify his personal shortcomings) whom I encountered was an "entrepreneur" who lied (to his angel investor and employees) for over 3 years to keep people in his company. I left when I got tired of the insanity, micromanagement, and dishonesty, but I lost a hell of a lot of time there.
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I totally agree with you about the difference between the Ruby and PHP communities. But I think when you say "the best hope for PHP...", you might be forgetting that not every project using PHP is a big application. I think Rails would be overkill for a smaller project (for example, an informational website for a small business), and so would Symfony (which the author of the linked article says himself). I bet a majority of the usage of PHP out there is for much smaller tasks that might benefit a little bit from a framework (or at least a separation of concerns), but would not be worth switching to a different language and platform (not to mention the deployment piece of the puzzle).
Isaascson had 40 some-odd interviews with Jobs, and none of it was censored by Jobs apparently, so the biography ought to give a good picture of the real jobs.

From the 60 minutes interview with Issaacson, it seems like a fairly honest appraisal of Jobs.
Do you have a transcript of Thomas N. Todd saying that so I can see some context?
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I think Jobs was a risk taker. And, crucially, he commanded the respect necessary for others to follow his lead.

I think plenty of other companies probably had a chance to launch something like the iPod, but shied away thinking the strategy too risky. Or maybe the CEO wanted to go for it, but couldn't convince the rest of the board to trust his judgment. Jobs greatest achievement was bringing all this talent and financing and creativity and vision together and using it to take risks (in the market/domain of consumer electronic and personal computing). With Jobs gone, will Apple still be able to function the same way? I don't know.
Having gotten a significant way through the Steve Jobs book, I'm fairly certain he would agree with the article's title.

The recurring theme is that he made a lot of mistakes in life and people should carve out their own path, and specifically not try to emulate him.

The book specifically quotes Jobs and his wife's desire not to sugarcoat anything in the least, and from what I've read, the author abided by those wishes, for better or worse.
> It would be equivalent to praising Apple as a whole, which I would definitely be fine with

Okay.

Well, the thing about that is, Apple as a whole almost burned to the ground once upon a time.

A man's singular vision turned that around. A company on the brink of death turns into one of the most valuable in all the world.

If the guy who can do that isn't a genius, we might as well give up on using the word.
Can someone explain in more technical terms why this looks so much better than the video shot by the Galaxy Nexus? Something about the quality is so much more inviting and warm. Is it just the production or is the camera actually better?
I switched to Canary to fix this issue, which has a much less aggressive gesture. Now a slide switch (almost like iOS's unlock screen) transparently overlays the screen until you slide across your trackpad, then it goes back a page. No need to touch OS X settings. :)

I was glad it was no longer sensitive, but I was still wondering why they didn't just implement Safari's page-reveal as you slide back. Then I tried using the Github website, which implements its own transitions using the History API, which worked splendidly on Chrome but was rather broken in Safari.

The best compromise would be to see what sites implement the history API and switch, but I'm satisfied with working side-scrolling for now.
You might be right that certain undefinable qualities taken together are what genius amounts to. But I guess I feel it means having a special insight in some area(s). Thing about Jobs is he so carefully tried to cultivate the sense that he had a special insight, and I feel like he desperately wanted to believe he did, and was superior to others because of it. I have met geniuses, but I haven't met Jobs, and second hand evidence is unreliable to me here given his abilities (ironic since they may be the crux of his genius).
I definitely agree. At Apple with Jobs in control, products didn't get watered down or ruined by committee.
The same phenomenon occurs in online games like Starcraft. People in the lower leagues of Starcraft constantly go to message boards like the TeamLiquid forums and ask for advice on strategy, critiques of replays, etc. But in 99% of cases, basic fundamentals like always making workers, constantly producing out of existing production buildings before making new ones, and not becoming supply-blocked (a form of production bottleneck) are the real problem. But they have the same sort of denial you are referring to where they want to believe that if they just _knew_ something that they don't know, they could win.

It's actually kind of sad that these biases towards easy thoughts exist, because often the fundamentals are more accessible than the silver bullet is to any given practitioner. In other words, almost anyone can execute on fundamentals with practice, but the grand silver bullet strategies are often beyond the capabilities of a typical person.
i used to have a draft message in gmail, but it grew too unwieldy.

now i use a private github repo and have all ideas in one markdown file that's easily editable via github's web editor. i already spend a good amount of time in github for other projects, so this is pretty good for me.
The 60 minutes interview gave an anecdote where employees with options were giving some of their own options out to other founding employees without after they went public. When one of the first employees, and a close friend of jobs asked for some options, another founding employee told Jobs that they should help him out, and offered to give out some options if Jobs would match him. Jobs declined, and never gave out any of his options.

While it's certainly his decision to make, I think it's entirely reasonable for people to say he doesn't deserve the worship he's been receiving.
I get the feeling that Windows 7 takes more resources, but utilizes a powerful computer more effectively than Windows XP does.
Thanks for the link! The concept from part 3 of treating the axes as unit vectors that default to (1, 0) and (0, 1) but can be rotated at will really helped bridge the gap in my mind between rotating vectors "manually" and using matrix multiplication.
In a DEC Press book covering the history of minicomputers (Gordon Bell was one of the authors as I recall), the most interesting observation was that the companies that survived let alone thrived in the frothy period for them were the ones that did an acceptable job of every essential thing.

E.g. make great hardware but don't document it well enough, you fail. DEC's forte at the time was CPUs, most of the rest wasn't so hot, but it was all good enough.
I should point out that all in all, it worked out great for me. I'll get around to framing my GED someday...
Did you try to make an offer for productx.com first? The fact that a given domain name is taken shouldn't immediately preclude you from obtaining it. If you were to contact the current owner and pitch a deal, you might be surprised by how flexible they are in working something out.

I say this as someone who has direct experience in these matters.
> wars that need to be fought

No war needs to be fought.
If only broadcast media organisations would take this on board. If a movie or an episode of a popular show is released even one day later via convenient streaming media channels than it is through other traditional mediums, it'll be pirated. Piracy is an international issue and will never ever be solved, or at least reduced significantly, until these companies accept the internet for what it is -- a ubiquitous global distribution channel -- and release content everywhere simultaneously.
Interesting but no one likes a paywall.
I like workflowy.com, the outline format is nice to keep things in groups.
The canary build had a bottom tab for bookmarks. It seems they've taken it out, so I still have to install an app for every site I want a link on the new tab page for.
I restart the computer and chrome each morning. And when Chrome gets to slow I restart it mid day sometimes. I also clear caches once every few weeks which seems to speed it up a little, but not like it did when going from Chrome 14 to Chrome 15.
You hit the nail on the head. In a bad economy/tech market like 2001, the recruiters were rude, unreachable and acted like Gods.
After 9/11 2001, a recruiter sent me resume of few other candidates vying for the same job and asked me to write a page describing how I am better than those candidates.

Now, the tables have turned, we developers consider recruiters as dirt bags.
I have no doubt that the tide will turn again. We just don't know when.
This is the usual response Apple fanboys make... until the next iPhone comes out and it has exactly the feature they said wasn't necessary.

1080p is better than 720p, except when you only have 720p.
3 points for this story, in which Time profiles the sole proprietorships of Maciej Ceglowski and Marco Arment. Three points. What the fuck is wrong with this place?
Australian Government doesn't understand startups, gov responds
This is pretty amazing! It'll definitely require power and motors to actually "walk", i.e. propel itself downhill, uphill or on a straight surface, but much less than what other robotic walkers do. And I don't see the need to make it two legged, either - that three-legged combination is fine by me, as long as it can clean my house, take out the garbage or carry boxes at a factory :-).
ABI is trying to sell the report, so they use a bait headline and press release.

A little digging on the report, and you find out it does not include iPod Touch or iPad in the numbers, pretty much making it worthless.
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Is good leadership always genius? Was his good leadership all the way up there at genius level? Is working hard to bring out the ideas of your staff worthy of genius-level praise? If he was more humble no-one might have called him a genius, although he would still be respected.

I think there is plenty of room for praising people for quite astonishing accomplishments, but I don't necessarily equate accomplishment with genius. It's not a knock on someone if they really pull something off but they don't get called genius. Genius is in the mind.
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I'm in the process of building a service that will effectively create an internal marketplace. The service will act as a broker for transactions as such it will have to receive and send money to users of the service. Any advice on this?
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Rumor has it that if Valve went under and Steam was shut down, they'd release a patch to allow their games to continue to function.
I would look at services with ACH
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I was really excited to try this out, and I just uploaded a receipt. However, they don't appear to be itemizing the receipts, so for a receipt I happened to have in my wallet for a lunch with 4 separately priced items, I can only see the total on the site.

Am I missing something? This is basically useless to me without that feature. Is there any service that exists right now that supports this? (preferably with an Android app)

edit

The screenshots on the Android mkt show itemized receipts, so maybe it's a paid feature. I've emailed support asking about it, but in any case, they appear to support this or plan to. Nice!
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So the point is, get it before getting famous, otherwise your fame will drive the price northward.
True, but the article can still be viewed via the old 'first click free' technique of googling the article title and navigating to the page from the search results.
Sounds a bit like Ask the Headhunter's classic "Death by Lethal Reputation" essay: http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/halethalrep.htm
Don't get fooled, it's just a bunch of photos taken and put together in a video. For 1080p all you need is a 2 megapixel camera.

This has nothing to do with recording/playback of 1080p on the phone itself.
and could handle the shock in your leg when your stride becomes so long you fall several feet with each step

This is possible when running down a steep sand incline. Very fun.
Illegal no

I wouldn't be so sure: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1030_3-6145744.html
Crap. I pitched this idea to about 10 people (other devs) last year and couldn't get anyone interested in trying it with me.

I obviously need to work on my sales skills.
:O

where were you when i needed that trick?
Amazon predicts record Kindle sales, but says revenue will lag behind
Whatever happened to that startup that would pay you to go to job interviews?
I've thrown away many watches and clocks with 'mode' buttons after losing its instruction manual.
Profit's are such a volatile metric. Amazon's been spending like crazy in the last few months on producing new Kindle products - most of which are being sold as a loss leader in an effort to push book sales.

Note that Amazon's overall Revenues are up 44%

Less sensational, more nuts and bolts article
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazoncom-announces-third-q...
Steve Jobs was integral to four spectacular business success stories: early Apple, Pixar, NeXT, and modern Apple.

You don't have to call it genius but the man certainly had something.
Sorry, I just saw this. Searching while listening would basically work how you have now but if there's already a video playing the system wouldn't stop it and change it to the first result for the new search, until the user clicks on a link in the results.
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Best new feature: different colors for padding and margin in the inspector. Already super useful.
Fair enough, but it sounds like you're critiquing the author's writing style rather than their point, which I think is a reasonable one.

Personally, I think there's a bigger lesson to be learned though: you shouldn't emulate anyone except yourself. Otherwise, you're doomed to a life of being a poor impression of someone else.
Implementation choices have costs and benefits. One cost of the original MRI (Matz Ruby Interpreter) is that it used "green threads" that could only be scheduled within the process (running on a single CPU) and not across CPUs. Another is that it was written in C, and some of C's semantics and implementation choices bubbled up into artifice that the Ruby user needs to know and care about. As well, the performance of MRI, due to some early design choices, has some limitations.

An implementation of Ruby on a new platform, JVM in this case, allows new choices to be made, involves a different set of tradeoffs, etc. RAM usage, startup time, JIT features, etc -- these are all factors.
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Steve: “Yeah I'll match it, I'll give 0 and you'll give 0."

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This is basically exactly what Emacs does--every single GUI action, be it a keyboard shortcut, a menu item, a mouse click or even a touch gesture[1] maps directly and very unsubtly to an elisp function. This means you can go from just using Emacs like a normal text editor do doing really complicated things with elisp in a relatively straightforward way.

[1]: https://github.com/greboide/emacs-gestures

Coincidentally, I don't see how Emacs is a CLI program, even if it does have a text-only mode: the text-only mode just draws the GUI elements with text the way other programs draw them with pixels. Of course, it's a tool heavily optimized for power users, but that's a different story.
Show HN: draughtsman, a webserver for front-end devs
Most people who seem to think there will be a lot of DICK Jobs wannabes are people focusing on Jobs' being a dick.

There is a lot more to Jobs than his dickish personality. If you can't see beyond it and wanna fearmonger, you should take your own advise.

As for non-dick SJ wannabes, hey why not? We're all wannabes to some extent.
I see you're creating an iframe and then loading the javascript script tag into the it. I assume this is how you are providing encapsulation of a unique window object per script. However, what about scripts that depend on access to the real window object?
We've certainly talked enough about that, especially in the context of tests like FizzBuzz. It's my personal observation from back in the mid-late '90s when I was last involved in recruiting that at least half of the people who call themselves programmers can't program their way out of a wet paper bag. Note that this is before we even ask the question "are they very good at programming?"....
Oh, thank God for that then.

For some reason I thought I read this article about how between 2005 and 2008 investment into grain futures pushed the price of real grain high enough that hundreds of millions of people across the world starved, while hundreds of millions of bushels of grain sat in silos, resulting in inflated food prices everywhere which still have not returned to what they should be, meaning people at the margins who starve every single day.

But I guess I must have imagined that. It's good to know only governments have that kind of power here in Bizarro World.
It's suspiciously quiet.
Creator here. For the past couple of months, I've been using a tiny webserver I've dubbed draughtsman to kick up my productivity while doing HTML prototypes. It's a node.js app that provides you with transparent compilation of CoffeeScript, Stylus, Jade, HAML et cetera. And directory listings (yeah, baby!) Probably more useful for designers than for devs. It's sort of like Apache/mod_php... but for people who know better than to use PHP (I kid, I kid). MIT licensed.

I do a lot of front-end prototypes for apps and websites I may or may not want to keep on building, and because of the throwaway quality of those things I don't want to be bothered with keeping all sorts of autocompiling scripts running for CoffeeScript, SASS et cetera, and I also don't want to start a Rails or Django project (yes, I use both) just for the sake of having transparent precompilation of those assets, and I also don't want to limit myself to writing plain HTML and CSS.

A bit more information over here: http://stdout.be/2011/10/25/draughtsman/

It's maybe a couple hundred lines of code, so easy to read through if that's your thing.

Just scratching my own itch here, but I'm curious to see what you guys think.
1) It's too soon. Jobs had a great impact on the tech community. Give it a few months at least.

2) I'm concerned about black-and-white thinking. As great as Jobs was, he was only a human. He had all the frailties and foibles as other humans. I don't want the tech community to put Jobs up on a shelf where he could do no wrong and he's some sort of patron saint of technology or something. That's not fair to Jobs or us.

Once enough time has passed, and it hasn't yet, a 3-dimensional picture of Jobs will emerge, warts and all. At that point we might get into a good discussion about what kind of role model he was. Odds are, parts of his story will be very inspirational and parts will not. That's usually the way these things work.

Seems like everybody is in a hurry today to get to the next story. Geesh folks, give things time.
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You didn't used to get severely downvoted for opinions either.
Exactly. The drop is an investment and was expected.
After all, a complete asshole gets neither respect nor friendship.

Considering Steve Jobs seems to have plenty of respect and friends, he's not a complete asshole. Right?

So what is he? Why even mention the complete asshole(and risk suggesting that he was one) when by your own logic he wasn't a complete asshole.
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