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Anyone else read Sam Smith's "The Jordan Rules"? Jordan is without doubt one of the greatest, if not the greatest, basketball player the world has seen. He is also known to be egotistical, as many competitive athletes/alpha males are (it's probably the testosterone).

Like Steve Jobs, Jordan would not suffer fools gladly, would "bully" team-mates, had laser-focus etc. Had a good wingman in the form of Pippen (Tim Cook). Yet one cannot fault him for his many accomplishments. He rose to the occasion time and again (how many times have we seen him take the buzzer-beater?), and had an admirable work ethic.

As the saying goes "haters gonna hate". The fact is that Jordan, Steve Jobs, and many other people changed their respective industries and beyond. Jordan not only changed professional sports, but also sports management and sports equipment marketing. Steve Jobs' achievements probably need no introduction.
It doesn't even address the main risk of the bill, which is that grandma isn't going to get swindled, she's just going to get sold an investment product with hugely negative capital returns about 90% of the time when executed correctly by talented, honest individuals.

I mean, that has to be the debate, right? Do we allow small, private investors access to investments with a bimodal distribution of outcomes, and if so what amount of regulatory overhead do we impose? With the understanding that every additional quanta of regulatory overhead a) kills some would-be companies at the margin and b) makes some deals inaccessible to small private investors at the margin.
How is Google a sausage factory? Just curious..
I hope he also avoids products and media made my anyone who has not been an absolute saint their entire life. It's perfectly acceptable to dislike Jobs, no question about that whatsoever. It's also acceptable to stop buying Apple stuff for any reason. But if you're going to put a proverbial line in the sand on moral grounds then you had better stick to your guns and apply that to everything or you just end up looking ... silly.

(Nice attempt at a clever title, but it misses the intended meaning of "think different" which is not "think differently" but more along the lines of "think bigger", as in "think of something different".)
I'll second that. Most of the time, major transitions happen through the death of the companies promoting the old models, and the rise of successful ones promoting the new models. Worse yet, quite often the old companies have enough power to strangle the new models for a while. Always nice to see a company actually listen to where people want to go and help them get there; they might just manage to survive the transition.
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" he would have kicked him out before Apple went public (à la Saverin in The Social Network) and Jobs would have been just another tantrum throwing hippie hanging around some starbucks in Berkeley or wherever it is angry hippies like to hang about these days."

And woz would have been just another engineer working for some company.
It paints Steve Jobs as a jerk far before he became a millionaire.

Also, the harsh reality is that neither of us knows if your assumption about the state of the harsh reality is valid.
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If abstaining from something secludes you from your peers, then the abstinence likely would have a larger negative effect.

That said, in college I did go out drinking with friends quite often. Just because that's what everyone did, and it was fun. My best memories are from then.
20% coding, 70% re-writing the code. Planning 10% somewhere in the middle.
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This is one of the subtleties of Applescript, but it is not a bug. See http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?pid=96613#p96613 and http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/AppleSc...

Note that within the loop, the loop variable (currentWord) is a reference to an item in a list, so in the test statement (if contents of currentWord is equal to "hammer" then) it must be cast to text (as text).

So you can either use something like:

contents of theItem is "hello"

or

theItem as text is "hello"

A reduction of your example:

set hello to "hello"
set ref_hello to a reference to hello
log (ref_hello = hello) -- false
log (contents of ref_hello = hello) -- true
log (ref_hello as text = hello) -- true

A similar gotcha to Java's hashCode/equals perhaps.
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The free market is such a beautiful theory that no proof is required. The free market can never fail, you see, it can only be failed. Thirty years of deregulation and regulatory capture led to economic disaster because the market just wasn't free enough.

That is seriously the argument some people make. I find it obnoxious and so trivially, obviously false it baffles me that people who are not rich actually make this argument.(1) I have trouble believing in a system which collapses at the slightest deviation from perfection.

(1) I can, however, easily see why an ethically challenged rich person would make such a self-serving argument. No, I don't think all or most rich people are ethically challenged. Certainly some are. I hate making so many caveats and having such a defensive tone in these footnotes, but I've argued on the internet before. It went okay.
"Territories we instantiate in states"? What are you talking about?

What is with the first person plural? The only way "we" are doing this is at a national level. On the other hand individual states could decide for themselves (assuming they can get around federal jurisdiction) but they would certainly not have it done to them.

I will skip over the "instantiate" word choice...
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Copy the good qualities. Learn from and ignore the bad ones.
Just going thru the site ... Is it similar to freemind?
First his product was the Facebook killer then he decides that he doesn't want to kill it, he wants to build on top of it. "It's the everything." ... "So we're about to make it more functional, more valuable for people than ever."

You can't flip-flop more than that. I can't wait until Facebook incorporates their new ideas into the product and puts them out of business - assuming that this new business actually exists in the first place.
It was an interesting read. But by the end I have no idea what Nguyen is really good at other than selling a startup. He's a wheeler and a dealer, but I sure don't have the impression that he knows how to build something as truly disruptive as he says he can.
I'm having flashbacks to early 2000's and writing repots for a portfolio management system called Advent Axys. This thing they call replang has a RPN syntax and it can make any hardened perl programmer cry. The scary thing is Advent is still a top vendor of portfolio management software for the private client business and also a whole range of other systems for money management of various types. Oh yeah, and replang is still in wide use. Anyone want to do a financial services software startup...

http://www.advent.com/solutions/by-product/axys
The only thing I can imagine at the moment of writing, is taxes.

If there is such a thing as taxes on virtually imported goods.
Only a guess though, I wonder what the real deal here is.
Hi - the parallelism is derived from the dependency graph, which provides task and data based (SIMD) parallelism. So, if you describe a bad graph, then you'll get limited concurrency. The performance you get is directly related to how well you can describe concurrency in your graph.

Dependency graphs aren't new - Intel TBB recently introduced a dependency graph model, and it's a well known approach. So if you're looking for a tool for making it easier to run concurrent C++, TBB is a great option.

Companies have tried the 'analyze code and work out how to multi-thread it' approach with limited success - it's pretty hard to do that in a dependable manner. Often you see horrible code snippets being inserted as flags etc - which very quickly gets messy and intrusive. It's a lot easier to describe the parallelism at a high level and let the engine handle it from there.

Our view is that bringing this kind of performance to dynamic languages is a big opportunity. Our reasoning:
- Modern hardware requires developers to write concurrent applications - the days of one big core are long gone. This is hard.
- Dynamic languages are flexible, easy to work with and fast to iterate. They're also very slow compared to native code, let alone multi-threaded code.
- There are a lot of people that know dynamic languages that can't, won't or don't want to work with compiled languages.

That said - Fabric will be free for non-commercial use (students, researchers etc). We open-source everything we build on top of the core engine - all of the extensions, 3D scene graph, rendering etc.

As for patenting - we've filed around some of the client-side stuff (I can't disclose details just yet - sorry). Most of the ideas that went into Fabric are not original - it's really how we've combined them to offer something that's (hopefully) compelling. We were very lucky to come at this problem when there was a perfect convergence of technologies - particularly JavaScript, HTML5 and LLVM.

Apologies for the ramble - been a long (but gratifying) day :)
If the same critiques can be made of any newspaper or online news site - then why choose this one? What makes the Atlanta Business Journal site(one of 41 others) even worth writing about?
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So flex is to flash what DOM and CSS are to JavaScript? [coming from someone who has never done flash but loads of html5/js]
I should have qualified the last statement. I was mostly thinking about how Jobs' was unequivocally indifferent to hurting people's feelings, taking their opinions into consideration or firing them for being what he deemed incompetent.

Specifically I wanted to contrast between populist politicians and business leaders who'd rather save face and avoid admitting to mistakes.

As someone mentioned in this post all he did was hurt people's feelings. Boo hoo!
In theory it sounds nice but in practice people may be hesitant to make their idea public to X number of strangers whom they've never met. You'd also need to find a wide range of domain experts to participate. What is their motivation?
Just because there are apps doesn't mean you have to download them all. I made a point of removing all apps I hadn't used daily when I wiped it clean for iOS 5. I then installed the apps that were previously on my homescreen. Beyond that, I only installed the apps when I needed to use them. This meant that apps I'd never use again were never reinstalled. I have a folder of 4-5 games, a couple social networking/communication apps (facebook, google voice, and twitteriffic) in their own folder. A utilities folder for things like Dropbox and other similar apps. The total screen space? Not even two screens thanks to the folders.

For the most part, i never go beyond the first page. But the apps on page two are useful and i use them maybe once a week.

Again, just because you have a billion apps at your disposal doesn't mean you have to have them all installed. Remove them for christs sake or quit your bitching.
I am quite disagree with you. I always found Flex much more simpler and easier to developer. Writing MXML was breeze than writing AS.
Do we need to explain? This site is obviously not a reputable source of any sort of information.
This is his business - the raising of money, not the production of high-quality long-term products...
It's made up and almost completely useless. The fact that Georgia Tech went from #1 to #7 (I go to this college and know this numbers) shows that.

The idea I'm going with is that A GT is not worse of an employee than he/she was last year.

The idea is somewhat correct in having a ranking for the workforce cause most other rankings are research based - i.e. they look for how good a Phd you are, not how well you can work at a company as a non-research employee.
> half of the Firefox and Chrome users don't have modern or secure enough GPUs or drivers to use WebGL

Fixed with current Firefox, as far as I know. The first release of Firefox with WebGL had an awful whitelist/blacklist system for video drivers, primarily due to them crashing when asked to do relatively basic initialization and operations. Now, Firefox has a sensible probing mechanism for video drivers, and as a result, almost any modern video driver will work just fine. (Certainly anything new enough to run OpenGL 2.0, which means all the graphics chipsets sold today, and those sold in the last few years.) Intel, ATI, and nVidia chipsets all work just fine; those represent the vast majority of the market at this point.

(Also, if a user's graphics drivers don't provide enough stability or security to work with WebGL, Flash won't improve that situation either.)

As for browser support, right now it works in released versions of Firefox and Chrome, and preview versions of Opera and desktop Safari. iOS 5 supports WebGL for iAds, and web content will likely follow soon; people have already figured out how to make it work using private APIs. As far as I know, current Android releases support WebGL as well. So, as usual, that just leaves Internet Explorer. (And even IE users have several possible alternatives, quite apart from upgrading to a better browser: plugins like IEWebGL, Chrome Frame, and even some attempts to use Java or Flash as a fallback.)

So, while WebGL support does need a bit more time to become sufficiently widespread, it seems likely to do so in the near future.
It's the Wall Street Journal... Not Reputable?
Sorry for that...
The "bad" qualities are what made them effective. If they didn't have them, you would never have heard of them.

Just be yourself. You don't really have a choice in the matter. You are you. You can only be you. If you try to graft aspects of somebody else's personality onto your own, you will find that it's a rather futile effort. You can't. Find out who you truly are, discover yourself, and then embrace yourself in the fullest sense. You can be a better you, but you can't be somebody else. If that means you don't end up a minor celebrity, c'est la vie.
I'm the co-founder/CTO of a startup and I agree: when I'm not in front of the computer coding, I'm always planning.
Maybe you should make it the newest bidder can leave a message?
So if it had such a big impact, it should be easy to show data to support such a claim. Where is your data?

And you're attempting to move the goal posts once again here - by merging the two categories. Face it, you have zero evidence to back up the idea that the government actually EVER forced a bank or mortgage company to make loans. Trying to now say "the govt then tried to make these loans make economic sense" is just a junk argument.
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Mine does occasionally crash / freeze, but it's because of a known issue:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/forum/kindle/Tx348MMDYTQ4AFC?_encodi...

I've just been too lazy to change the cover, and it's not been overly inconvenient yet. Amazon, to their credit, offers a refund. Perhaps this blogger is using a non-lit cover and is unaware of the issues with it?
I was more resigned than surprised. Annoyed, perhaps. Anyway, an LTS release would be guaranteed not to work with newer software, from my experience with them. Apologetics centering on users being prepared for normal updates to break random things do not forward Linux, in my opinion.

It's not clear to me that there's any way to get the level of polish needed for a major desktop OS without at least an army of (very critical) testers and developers, and maybe without forking most of the packages in the distro. Nevertheless, if OS X continues down the apparent path it's on, I'll be switching back again in a few years.
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Same here. This article just got my blood boiling. Oh the poor investors! Like they're 5 years old... Rule #1 of humanity, Treat people like they're stupid and they will act stupid. This has been proven in traffic and street sign design.

It seems like there are only 2 sides to this argument. The "leave it all alone and let people learn the hard way" (which has been shown to collapse economies, create bubbles, and get manipulative corrupt / stupid tyrants into office) and "regulate everything to down the subatomic level" (which stagnates human progress and creates a society comfortable and stupid enough to drink anything that doesn't have a warning label on it).

I lost money in Bitcoin and it was MY fault, not the government's. I'm glad I had the opportunity and freedom to make that mistake. Rather than keep people safe from risk we should allow risk but FORCE warnings. When you explicitly tell grandma and grandpa that 93% of startups go out of business in their __ year and the company they're investing in can go belly up and leave their pockets empty at any moment, you've done your job. If they still invest their ENTIRE retirement into a YouTube clone there's nothing you can really do for them. It's sad but it's reality.

People already rack up $3,000 of credit card debt, $100,000 of student loans. Call it the Financial Darwin Awards. What can you do? What should you do? Personally I believe in a "Educate Against but Allow" philosophy. Humanity must be allowed to make mistakes, it is the universal way to learn and grow. The same way we MUST be exposed to bacteria and viruses otherwise our immune systems go to shit. (Google: "washing your hands too much")

Anyway, if these "hand holding legislators" put as much effort into fixing the country's broken and inadequate drivers license tests as much as they try to prevent anyone from taking a financial risk, 40,000 people in the USA wouldn't die every year from auto related accidents. I wish they'd over-regulate something that needed it.
Wouldn't it be nice if the people behind the things we loved were as pure and perfect as our love for the products they created?

It doesn't happen.

I ended up great friends with someone who created a body of work I hold dear. He isn't perfect. His faults make the relationship between who he is as a person, as an artist and the body of work he's created complex. But that fissure between the creator and the created is what makes the work that much better.

Jobs seemed to be similar.

The art of creation is a messy thing indeed.
As another Flash veteran I completely agree with this. If you ever look at the Flex source code it's so obvious that it has been hilariously overengineered (which probably explains why Flex apps have always run so poorly).

I don't think Flex ever really had a suitable target audience - the premise was being able to create cross-platform/cross-browser widget applications, but that was hindered by the fact that the entire app ran on the AVM (with all of the limitations that entailed).

Anyone that wanted to deliver a great user experience (or had performance constraints to consider) would end up writing a native app anyway.
FWIW, we're considering getting one of these for similar reasons:

http://www.truecall.co.uk/

Not sure if it's available for use outside the UK, but we'll settle for just stopping calls to our phone from outside the UK from ringing given that 100% of them are junk. (In theory, BT can block them on request. In practice, that request has not been effective, so we're looking for a more direct approach.)
I find it amazing how so much chaotic data can be represented by simple abstractions.
As Adobe mentioned, they are going to donate Flex SDK to community. Developing SDK is not a major problem. But development of underlying platform is. Can community trust Adobe that Flash Player runtime will be around for a longer time?
Pretty sure the Foxconn suicide casualties didn't just have hurt feelings.
What? Who ever said anything about post-PC devices not accessing the web? Way to knock down that straw man.
The new Color app, judging by its website, actually looks really cool. Nguyen has taken something that already exists -- social broadcasting from your phone's video camera -- and made it seem space-age (turn a photo into real life.. the "transporter" comparison). Same technology, but now I can see why he's a master salesman.
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That information requires a whole different API :)
fn-arrow left/fn-arrow right is a pretty pathetic substitute for actual home and end keys. I've never used a Mac for a prolonged period of time so can't speak to other points, but I am baffled at how people can do anything without those keys. When I try to debug some code on one of my coworkers' Macs I feel like I suddenly can't type anymore because of their absence, not bs'ing or exaggerating.
The problems this guy has with Apple are things still going on now.

Every problem the author notes in this article is specifically with Steve Jobs' behavior, not Apple's. I'm commenting on what was in the submitted article.

However, you reiterated my point beautifully with your cotton anecdote. I'm not sure why you needed to repeat the sentiment but, yes, it's similarly irrational.
I think that's different. Steve Jobs' innovative use of fonts in the early Macs wasn't squashing an alliance of tyrants bent on world domination...
Have you got enough life insurance?
That would make interstate commerce regulation pretty interesting.
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Get rid of your television, shoes, computer, mobile phone and clothes then. They are all made in china (or indonesia/taiwan/etc) in probably worse conditions. What do you even know about their manufacturing?

"I'm glad to see someone holding him accountable for […] the consequences of his actions" is what I'd call over-dramatic.
In my experience, it's more or less 2 parallel processes which are very alike. If I really had to guess as to time, it's be something like:

Plan -> Code -> Refactor -> Replan -> Code -> Refactor

10% -> 15% -> 30% -> 20% -> 10% -> 15%

For me, the first refactor and replan phases take the longest time.
you really think that "anyone who has not been an absolute saint their entire life" is a equivalent to "Devoid of any kind of feelings towards anyone else, he shouts, screams, cries and sulks his way through his petulant life"?

because i don't. i think there's quite a difference. everyone can be an arsehole sometimes, sure. but that doesn't excuse those that are consistently unpleasant. there's a clear difference. so you can distance yourself from the latter without having any problems with the former.
There would have been no Apple for Woz to kick anyone out of if it wasn't for Jobs.

They needed each other, that's why they split the company 50/50.
Did u know the man personally? NO. But you're happy to denounce him, based on others comments. Do u honestly feel qualified to denounce a man you've never met? Never worked for? Who has contributed more than u ever will, to the world & to individuals quality of life? I'll point u to another quote from the book, where Steve asks a blog editor who is likewise trying to attack him: what have you ever made? I'll leave it at that, friend
If I understand it, it's a pretty horrible idea. For a lot of reasons. But, the most obvious, is how easy it'll be for you to game it. When someone makes a bid, you can simply outbid them but not actually pay any money.
I'm amazed people still trot this out. Foxconn has more employees than many mid-sized cities. Their per-capita suicide rate is lower than that of China as a whole. They make electronics for many of the big consumer electronics manufacturers, not just Apple.