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"I agree that Jobs, and Apple in general perfect rather than innovate. E.g. they didn't invent mp3 players, they just made a really good one. They didn't invent phones with browsing capabilities, they just made them really easy to use and nifty."

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I agree that no company ever had innovated: when someone created mp3 players there were already Walkmans, so mp3 are Walkmans without tape, and digital instead of analog, before Walkmans there were other portable tape recorders and players.

Before Nokia created cell phones there were already analog phones( I have one that weights 2Kgs or 4 pounds), and before that there were "portable" (backpack) radios.

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Some people had pushed the envelope of what is possible, and some people instead of recognizing that prefer to diminish what they had done so they could feel better about their small accomplishments on life.
> But does that mean the creators of Ferrari contributed to society?

Yes.

The amount of research thrown into the likes of a Ferrari end up trickling all the way down to your regular car. From tyre compounds to suspension design to chassis structure to aerodynamics to engine optimization, your daily car would be nowhere as safe, economical, durable and so on without cutting edge technology designed for those ultra high-end cars. I had a nasty car crash that would simply have reduced me to bits ten years ago, but survived with only a few bruises and a bunch of displaced vertebrae. I could have escaped the crash altogether had the car been a couple of years less, and had been equipped with ESP. It would have been impossible to fit such amount of technology in such a cheap and lightweight package without bringing cutting-edge technology and perfect realization to the table at some point, but that comes with an awfully high price tag which can only be afforded by consumer luxury segment and professional racing. R&D in automotive consumes absolutely unfathomable and ridiculous amounts of money.

So yes, a F458, a Corvette ZR1, a Honda NSX-R, a Zonda Cinque, a Bugatti Veyron, an Aston-Martin One-77, a Porsche GT3 RS, a Nissan GT-R, a Tesla Roadster are vehicles of perfection that bring something to the table for society as a whole.
I'm disappointed that the product isn't related to actual zeppelins.
You're right. Sorry, I shouldn't comment on these things with only 3 hours of sleep the night before because I'd get it wrong.
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How much of this is because its much easier to learn about business or law? How much of this is because CS101 are often extremly bad (there was alot of talk at here at HN).

Im not saying everybody should learn programming. There is lots of other stuff that will not get taken ofer by mashienes and its pretty easy to learn a lot of this because of the Internet.

The problem is that often its not really about beeing good, its more about having finished the right school or having the right certification. That a hole diffrent set of problems.
I disagree with the fundamental premise of this post.

90% of restaurants fail w/in the first year. Does that mean starting a restaurant is a bad idea? What about creating a startup?

People should think about the consequences of the commitments they make. But even then, things happen in the lives of two people that can drive a wedge between them. The fact that, in such an event, they are allowed to get divorced, rather than forcing them to remain in a loveless, or abusive, or otherwise dysfunctional marriage is not a bad thing.

The whole "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" of broken homes issue is a more complicated matter. How about we start teaching teenagers that having kids is a huge responsibility and that it's really important to use birth control and condoms to keep from getting pregnant?

Or, i suppose, we could just force all the people involved in teen pregnancies to get married. yeah. i'm sure that'd work better.
When I first started coding in Objective-C, I hated it because it just felt "wrong". The more I learned the language, the more I enjoyed programming in it. I still think some things are a bit awkward, but like anything new, it just takes time to learn to love it.
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Objective-C is a nice UI glue language but I wouldn't want to write anything of any algorithmic complexity in it. The data structures are just way too awkward and manual boxing/unboxing of primitives puts it way over the top.

I write my iOS app UIs in Obj-C but the brains are in a C++ core. The new C++11 support in LLVM 3.0 has tipped the balance that much further.
In order to study statistics you need calculus. In order to do basic calculus you need trigonometry.

The idea that you can just toss "more interesting" concepts around without the basics won't work.
Which is still ridiculously well below the stated 35% corporate tax rate in the USA (source--IRS http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1120.pdf)
Agenda setting, framing or priming are not opinion change. It's not really known how and how effectivly those effects can change opinions.

I would also be wary of characterizing mass media as a single entity. That's just doesn't reflect reality.
It has some truth to it, but ignores a lot of salient facts in favor of a cute argument (insert Gladwell dig here).

Steve Jobs' had many parts to his genius. Tweaking products until they were really finished was one.

But I would say the most important (and impressive) part of his genius was holistic thinking. He wasn't a programmer, a hardware engineer, an industrial designer, an advertising copywriter, or an architect, etc.
But he deeply understood the essentials of those fields and was able to harness them to create a hugely successful business and set of products.

Another part of his genius was to pick the best talent and get the most out of them.

This is all obvious, but after reading Isaacson's book, which was quite good, this article is basically fluff. Gladwell basically just adds this marginally related story about tweakers so the entire article isn't regurgitating all the interesting anecdotes from the bio.

EDIT: Also, the use of the word "tweaker" is a stupid rhetorical trick -- the article is basically a troll.

"In contrast, Jobs’s vision, brilliant and perfect as it was, was narrow. He was a tweaker to the last, endlessly refining the same territory he had claimed as a young man."

Really? Does anyone honestly believe a person that was CEO of 2 different companies that changed industries has a narrow vision? This is willfully ignoring reality to make a cute little article.
I used it, and I just kept it on my side of the bed, it worked fine. I guess it depends on your mattress, but unless your partner is shifting around enough to wake you I'd say it'd be fine.
Although you would reduce the amount of fraud with a lower tax rate, you would also decrease your income. The goal is to have the highest income possible, even if that implies fraud or optimizations.

Big companies will always have an advantage regarding taxes: they can provision more easily, pay people to optimize, lobby, etc.

I'm not saying you have an optimal tax rate in the USA, but the naive approach regarding this problem will probably not work.

More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_tax
> We should strive for a higher standard at HN.

You can't strive for a higher standard when there is no higher standard to strive for: sometimes, a person is being an idiot and refusing to use the right word is just misplaced political correctness.
"That will work until your employer makes the wrong business decision and the company goes out of business or there are budget cuts and you get laid off."

That doesn't matter. This is no different from being self employed and making bad decisions yourself.

When you are employed you typically know if you job is safe enough as you have a fair idea of how the company is doing and have a feeling about how important you are to the company.

If you know you are dispensable and your company just lost a big contract you would worry. Otherwise you wouldn't. Self employment is very similar.

Regarding contracts, this is why it is very important to read your contract before signing. I have turned down a number of jobs due to unrealistic non-compete agreements and the potential employer owning discoveries I make in my own time.
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I can't help but think how prophetic several chapters in "The Windup Girl" (http://boingboing.net/2010/02/17/the-windup-girl-2010.html) where when it came to how climate change might impact Bangkok.

From the article:

"Last week, Thailand’s science and technology minister, Plodprasop Surasawadi, told a Thai newspaper that he was “one million percent sure” there would be flooding again next year.

“This is a natural phenomenon that you cannot escape,” he said. “We are living in a period of climate change.”"
If you think Obj-C is nice, try Qt's QML - it's a declarative language with JSON-like syntax that also allows you to embed JS and interact with C++.

Probably one of the easiest and more powerful ways to create an UI, but not as mature as other consacrated frameworks and not available on iOS anyway.

By the way, how do you handle unicode in the C++ core?
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On a generic level, the best way to make a smart non-programmer write programs is to describe how to do it but not tell them it's programming.
I think the chances are that if you are working 60hrs a week you are doing it wrong.

Working that amount of time for a month to power through a launch or get something done is fine.

However if you are working that amount of time week in, week out and have a family which you actually want to spend time with then it doesn't really matter where you work. You could work in your families living room. You would still be turned off to them for 8-12 hours a day.

If your single, this may be the life for you. If you work with your partner it may doable at times.

Realistically though, most people will not need to put in this much time. If they are there are a number of things they can do to reduce this time. You really do not need to work yourself into the ground to make a good living.
One of these days I will write a detailed account of my experience learning Obj-C, but for now I'll say this:

The fact that Obj-C takes C and adds objects on top is its biggest flaw, just like with C++. Worse than C++ though, Obj-C doesn't even attempt to fix at least some of C's more glaring flaws... you get the whole language, quirks and all.
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It could be.

You could also be hiring a guy who does marketing to help you get more customers, give some other guy a sales commission for sending work your way, and so forth.

These things don't always require formal structures. You have more power as one who is self-employed rather than an employee.

The fact is there is nothing limiting this advice to developers. If you know how to do bookkeeping, for example, you can become self-employed and rent out your services to customers rather than having them hire an employee.
I think you could seriously improve your 'What do you do' answer. If you'd simply said "I develop travel guide apps" you probably wouldn't get any eye-glazing and in all likelihood it might even lead to an interesting conversation about traveling and favorite destinations.
Don't brag about how awesome you are and don't get into details about who you work for or how awesome they are. Simply state in as high-level terms as possible actual real world problem you are solving, and don't worry if your short answer isn't technically correct. If they care you can clear up any confusion when they ask for more details.
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Either I'm mistaken, or you do not know who you are answering to.

Mystalic is an editor at Mashable, not a VC. Therefore, when asking "who's funding you" he's not looking for rival VCs, but as he said, for cues. That does not, however, really invalidate your point of him making is own judgement instead of filtering by VCs.
Why does that happen? If you check your balance you can clearly see your net wage, right?
Regarding outer plutoid (hah) flybys the New Horizons mission is on its way out to Pluto and beyond at the moment.

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So why draw the line there? Why is it ok to abstract away modern hardware, but not ok to abstract away memory management or pointers?
I wonder how many "hacker players" hang out on HN? :)
"Walking away isn't for everyone, though. Getting to the point where it's an option in your arsenal, having the confidence and experience of knowing you'll find something else to make a living by yourself is what separate entrepreneurs and employees."

And this is exactly why telling people that this is not for everyone is harmful to everyone. If all the applicants for a job can walk away and find something else, the company has to be far better at keeping them and the companies which add too much BS end up dying rather quickly.
I'm kind of stuck with Obj-C on iOS but I can totally believe you could build an abstraction layer like the one you describe over vanilla C++ that would give you most of the benefits of Obj-C. Clang's Obj-C++ support makes it pretty painless to mix Obj-C and C++ as long as you clearly delineate responsibilities.

So far I haven't had to do any serious string handling in my C++ engines (mostly audio apps). The new unicode stuff in C++11 ought to make this manageable but I haven't actually tried it yet.
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not everybody....only the person who tells me what to do ,writes emails all day and makes almost double my base and at least 5 times my bonus.

If the the desire to not get fucked over is being selfish...then so be it!
Chapter 10 of Issacson's book spends quite a bit of time talking about Raskin vs Jobs on the Macintosh. Raskin is sourced several times for that chapter. The Macintosh would have been a very, very different product if Jobs had not taken over, and demanded a very different system than the one Raskin had envisioned.

The Issacson Analysis (backed up by Atkinson) was that Raskin had envisioned an underpowered, less expensive system that would not have had many of the features that made the original Macintosh "Insanely Great."

I like Gladwell's analysis - Jobs was a great _editor_ He didn't necessarily create very much, but he was driven to relentlessly critique until something great emerged.

It's amazing how valuable a function that can be, particularly in the presences of great engineers who can rise to the challenge.

The reason people praise Steve Jobs is not because he designed anything (though he may have had a few design suggestions) - but because his singular drive to release great products resulted in so many being created (and then, quite logically, being copied by everyone else)

The Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad all came about because of Steve Jobs, and have changed the technology that we use every day. Love him, or Hate him, you can't take that away from him.
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What's stopping these things from including a heart rate monitor as well? Do we just not have the sensors, or are they just not as cheap as a simple accelerometer? I'd be much more interested in the exercise tracking if it did something besides "steps". Most devices have the same issue as far as I know. If I'm doing an oly lifting workout I don't do very many steps but I sure do a lot of work. I'd love to be able to quantify that.
Of course taking on a business partner is almost exactly like getting married without the sex. So it really pays to get to know potential business partners first.
The only thing I really don't like about Objective C is that message passing is considerably slower than function calling. You just can not manipulate an image using the `setPixelX:Y:` method in anything close to real time. Using functions in C, this is no problem.

So, there you go: Write your algorithms in C, write your program logic in Objective C. Oh, and I love how the OpenGL C API interacts so nicely with Objective C and Cocoa!

That said, I have a fair bit of experience with PyQt. I would ditch Objective C for something like MacRuby any day, but then I would (sorta) lose the ability to drop down to C if need be. (Still, does anyone have any solid experience in MacRuby? I would love to hear some!)
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I guess I'm curious to know why so many people kept working for Jobs and Apple given that behavior? Did his "bluntness" command the respect that fueled other peoples' achievements?
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"The main element of these deep-space NASA missions that fuels the conspiracy is the RTGs, or radioisotope thermoelectric generators, that power space probes such as Cassini, Galileo, Voyager, and others. Past Mars there's not enough sunlight to provide the power a spacecraft needs, and so these RTGs are the only option we have. We've mentioned them before on Skeptoid: Russia has used similar generators to power about 150 lighthouses along its extremely remote northern coast. Heat from a radioactive element, usually plutonium-238, goes through a thermocouple, which is a material that produces a direct electrical current when heat is applied to it. RTGs have no moving parts and are extremely simple and reliable."

Brian Dunning writes this in 'The Lucifer Project', http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4143. Some people "conjecture that such a payload of radioactive material would act like an atomic bomb in the high-pressure depths of a gas giant, and they suppose that this would somehow ignite the entire planet, turning the whole thing into a small star."

The Lucifer Project is about turning Jupiter into a second Sun.
Also Russ Cox is one of the main hackers in the Google Go team and wrote the new (pure) Go regexp engine based on his work on re2.

Of course the Go team also includes Ken Thompson who popularized regexps with Unix, and Rob Pike of 'structural regular expressions' fame: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/
Sorry-we had no idea of that not being professionals and she was blue and seemed not to be breathing. It turned out to be OK after the fact but at the time....
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> But I believe that number refers only to Google's overseas tax rate

It does. It says so in the article.
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Personally I don't see what people are complaining about here. He took an open source project, with a licence that permitted it, and made it a commercial project by adding chances and forming a derivative work. There is no foul play here.

If someone else wants to fork the project and try and mimic the new commercial features they're free to do so. Don't expect the original developers to help you though. They're already set on their own path.
I never met Jobs and I know nothing about him personally. But if the stuff in this article is true, he was an obnoxious prick, genius or not.
I don't agree at all.

First, what exactly are "UK profits" supposed to be? Say Apple has a net margin of 20 % on every iPhone sold. It's designed in California by Americans (most surely several non-native Americans among them), manufactured in China by probably lots of Chinese workers and immigrants, shipped and flown across the world by god knows whom, etc. It's not like it's designed in Brixton, manufactured in Manchester and sold in London only. Which country is supposed to retain the tax on profit on each iPhone sold? The point of sale-country is one alternative. Is it the most logical? Is it equitable and fair (whatever that means)?

Second, if your local legislator is just too stupid - or, more accurately, for a lot of reasons - unwilling to close tax loopholes, why on earth should a company be willing to waste shareholder's money by settling a claim (tax) that is not legally binding due to existing loopholes? There is a lot of hypocrisy involved in politicians blaming companies for using tax law loopholes - if they were at all serious about that, they would just write better laws. Sure, it's always playing catch-up with tax lawyers looking for "tax-efficient" structures, but most loopholes are well known among legislators, and they knowingly decide not to close them.
The umpteenth time they are on HN in the last few days, and I still havo no idea what they do. Weird company name.
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