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Insightful and highly accurate characterization of Issacson's Biography. I often wondered whether people like Jobs have any ability to see themselves (and others) objectively, and whether that lack of ability, that narcissism, is essential to their ability to ensure their vision comes out with the purity that we saw in the iPhone, iPad, Macbook Air, etc...

I also appreciate this characterization's of Jobs' rant on Gates' supposed lack of imagination:

"Philanthropy on the scale that Gates practices it represents imagination at its grandest. 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."
The inventory doesn't need to last longer: it needs to yield a higher margin, because you're going to sell fewer units.
Every time you create a tool or process or system that lets you do more with less effort you are supposedly "taking jobs".

So stop whatever it is you are doing and instead destroy these things instead. Then stand back and watch the ground swell of prosperity that sweeps the globe.
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Media effects research suggests otherwise.

This is a hot sociology research topic and debates about how easily media can influence people have been raging for nearly the past century (well, basically ever since mass media arrived). Empirically it has always been hard to find any media effects at all. Opinions cannot be easily changed by media. Other effects like agenda setting or framing and priming have much stronger empirical support.

This suggests to me that it is extremely hard to control people's opinions and views through media content, especially given the extent to which a single actor can influence media content.
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Pretty much every month, yeah. Right now I'm hiring someone to do the research and interviews, so that I can stay put for a while.
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Let me put it this way:

GOOD THINGS:
* automation leading to increasing wealth
and less employment in redundant jobs
* social safety nets freeing people up to do work
they LIKE to do because it gives them satisfaction
* guaranteed housing, food, and sexbots for all (basic maslow's needs)
with ability to get more expensive things through capitalism

BAD THINGS:
* speculation by abusing resources and cornering free markets
* government monopolies (patents, etc) restricting
freedom of production in fast moving industries
* increased risk of terrorism leading to significant
culture changes around security/freedom issues

these are the long term trends

just my point of view.
I don't get your post at all. What exactly do you mean by 'media' which apparently excludes these other effects? As far as I can tell mass media does all those things. Moreover, one particularly successful mass media outlet is virtually entirely controlled by a single actor.
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Isn't this the same company staffed with the brilliant engineers that used a password scheme so braindead all their users passwords got cleartext'd?

Yeah, right.

Not only are his arguments void, but the anecdote used to back up the "mongo is fine, f off!" message is laughable.
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You can move to a country with a lower corporate tax rate. Like Canada. Yes Canada. And you can get special tech industry tax deductions. The US has one of the higher corporate tax rates out there.
"You're making it sound as if it's a good thing Microsoft makes money on stop they didn't actually build themselves."

It was an observation, it shouldn't be interpreted as approval. Just as I'm not so sure whether Apple, Google, and the Android device makers are handling this mess the right way.
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Or to ask in yet another slightly different way: what are we missing now, what's been taken away from us, because of software patents?

Just a few random examples; no doubt there are more:

1. Encumbrance-free implementations of popular audio and video codecs.

2. Long filename support on FAT32 on embedded Linux devices (or the associated royalty to Microsoft).

3. Multitouch gestures on Android, at least initially.

4. A gallery app on Samsung devices in the Netherlands that shows neighboring pictures in an image sequence when sliding between images.

5. Early clones of the game The Incredible Machine.

6. Probably countless other ideas that people never bothered to try because they knew that some big company had already patented the life out of a particular sector.
> of Jobs' rant on Gates' supposed lack of imagination

Where can I read this rant?
Or do you have in mind Jobs' rant about __Microsoft__ having no taste
which is completely different thing.
Media effects studies were done with television, radio, print and web content.

Opinion changes in response to media content would generally be considered strong media effects. Agenda setting, framing and priming are of course also media effects but they are seen as much weaker.

There also still is plenty of pluralism in media content, both internal and external. Worrying developments do exist, sure, but in the grand scheme of things they are not such a big deal. Especially the web can actually increase pluralism.
I'm not a lawyer, but from my understanding the implicit patents grant functions well only in the US as a product of US patent law, but is absent from the world's other patent systems. In some countries it is even disallowed.

During the analysis of the Oracle-Sun merger, a lawyer from the European Commission said that the implicit patent grant from MySQL may be limited to the purpose of the original software and would not extend to forks: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m552...

Another problem with the implicit patent grant in GPL v.2 is that it was never tested in court. This is not enough reason to doubt it, but considering how the SCO lawsuit took 10 years to get solved and how many resources were invested by Novell and IBM to get to that point for basically a clear-cut decision (not only infringement was absent, but SCO didn't even own the copyrights they claimed infringed), would you really tell Oracle to fuck off in case of a threat?

Also consider how patent lawsuits have gone international. Witness how Samsung and Apple are attacking each other in non-US countries. A license that's only reliable in the US is not enough anymore. And you don't even know if GPL v.2 is reliable in the US. Not until it is tested, not until there's a precedent.

And yet another problem: Oracle owns everything Java, so they aren't really bound by the GPL.
I completely agree with you. I think Joel was answering the 'how do I achieve enlightenment' question. Maybe he only considers someone a programmer if they are enlightened; seems kind of narrow-minded to me.
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4) Salaries are not included in taxable income, so you're not taxed twice.
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Yes, but i've been using oracle databases for almost a decade and have never known it to drop data on the floor through bugs (only through user error). Not saying it doesn't happen, just that it's not a common event. It seems with mongo you should expect dataloss.
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No, he means _Gates_

google: Jobs on Gate no imagination

"Bill basically has no imagination and never find anything, that’s why I think he’s more comfortable this time on philanthropy rather than technological. He’s just shamelessly take others’ ideas,"

There's also another much older quote, which I think is an awesome one for Bill Gates:

"You're ripping us off!", Steve shouted, raising his voice even higher. "I trusted you, and now you're stealing from us!"

But Bill Gates just stood there coolly, looking Steve directly in the eye, before starting to speak in his squeaky voice.

"Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."
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There are no words that can sum up Steve Jobs genius and his contributions to modern society.

On the other hand, I can't help but notice how much press/literature there has been on his genius and I think it's starting to be excessive. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not a fan of literature that praises success and goes in-depth into the lives/processes of talented people(that's why I'm not a fan of Gladwell's Outliers book). Where can you draw the line between admiring someone's achievements and idolising their every trait?
It actually exceeded my expectations, which were fairly high. It goes in-depth to the point where, if you are just interested in the topic, you probably won't care for, but if you are looking to gain a more thorough understanding, it's great, especially for beginners.

Highly recommended.
The last time I looked at nginx it parsed the HTTP request with a hand-coded state machine but routes that are defined by regular expression matching were handled one expression at a time.

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I think we should also officially adopt yyyy.mm.dd.hh.mm and the 24hr clock. (I forget the official name of that formatting, and I'm on my phone, so I'm lazy.)

And the International Fixed Calendar, too.

Also, metric.
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This post is unparalleled FUD. We use MongoDB in production and all the issues we've encountered have been either environment or configuration related.

There are plenty of things about MongoDB I don't like but this OP is a total coward. If you've got something to say, put your name on it and come out in the open.

This type of post is the worst of its "hiding behind Internet anonymity" kind.

And for the record, I don't think Oracle is behind this. They're confident in their Exadata offering and have little to gain by posting this kind of crap around MongoDB. Besides, Larry Ellison has never been afraid to openly taunt his competitors.
Oh, thanks.
I fail, however, to see how Gates philanthropy relates to imagination.
As for the second quote, it is nice but in reality things were much more complicated.
Why is there a link to google docs at the bottom? Doesn't look like an ad.

Cool stuff, I wish more YC companies released their applications, they are interesting.
Seriously. Reddit has struggled for years under Conde Naste to get adequate funding, and they have already built the community and technology to do exactly this. Then DARPA comes in ready to drop $40+ million, I doubt their project will ever get off the ground, community-wise. Meanwhile Reddit continues to scrounge up a living off advertising.
That might be the answer, but of course it takes a lot more time and capital to start a hardware business than a software business.
Sure they could, Internet is not that expensiv and thats really all you need to learn programming.

Sure education is expensiv but self education is not!
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Now that I've had time to read the article, I see that both quotes are actually in there.
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What Jobs probably meant (not that I agree with it necessarily): Philanthropy is using money to enable others to innovate, in contrast to being an innovator.
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After reading about Drew's abilities I find myself depressed. Are all startup founders so amazingly talented at an early age?
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Well I'm making the assumption that our behaviors, beliefs, values, knowledge, personality etc (the algorithm that is "you") are directly influenced by all of our inputs (visual, auditory, sensory etc). Sure there are other inputs during a 24 hour day, but the Internet, and sitting in front of a computer screen are pretty damn dominant.

So if you take that assumption, at face value there should be significant "programming" happening.

Now most of the time, it's yourself that is doing the programming. e.g. you browse content (articles, videos etc) that you actively search for, or actively select out of a feed of possible content.

The idea with recommendation engines is that within the next few years, they will become far more advanced. So now assume that you have algorithms that can serve you content that you absolutely love with 99% accuracy - 99 out of 100 HN stories you're like "OMFG THIS IS AMAZING".

At that point, you will very rarely search for information any more. You'll still do so from time-to-time, but ultimately I think people will sit on a platform and just have content after content delivered to them. And already, the newsfeed nature of the web has started down this path. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, HN - they're all feeds of information, some with primitive filtering methods. It's in their best interests to serve 100% personalized content as soon as that technology becomes available.

It also doesn't really matter who produces the content. Content will be produced for every single niche. To begin to re-program the individual, you just slowly introduce content that takes the incremental step from their existing belief/value/behaviour toward the desired one.

Out-there example: you have an individual who is a Christian. You simply tell the system that you want them to become an Atheist at X point in the future. The system then subtly, and incrementally introduces catered content designed to facilitate that transition.

Don't get me wrong, this won't be easy to create such a system. I'm just saying it's within reach well before this decade is out. And the concern/fascination is that this could be run globally, and anonymously.

/rant (I love thinking about this stuff) :)
> "think of the children."

My children routinely carried 5 kg of books from the age of 8 years old up to 10 kg at times now that's they're 12 and 14. If there's an industry that should die for the benefit of the children it's this one...

But for the time being the schools probably have something like 1 computer for 10 pupils, so the infrastructure really isn't there to switch to true online material -- Though a 200 euros tablet could replace easily a huge stack of books for a lot less money.

Unfortunately here in France the books must be certified by the ministry of education, making the lobbying power of school books editors much more efficient, because they only need to please a few government officials.
I look for cues, such as who is funding you

Someone has to go first, no? Why do you trust rival VCs more than your own judgement?
Not everybody is cut to be a programmer, just look at the percentage of college kids that fail Programming 101, even though they are in a way better position to learn than the 40 year old laid-off factory worker.
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The computer on that thing probably has the longest uptime in the solar system.
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Well at first but I wouldn't work to hard. In the End you will programm something that replaces yourself. At least the people who work in AI are the last to go and then we are at Singularity and nobody knows what happens then.
But Google was still able to mine the data even it's copyrighted. Wouldn't it be possible under fair use clause for research?
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> "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

The main problem with that analogy is that Jobs bought that TV set from Xerox. Xerox freely let Apple see what they were working on with the understanding that Apple would use some of these ideas. In exchange for this, Xerox got to profit from the resulting increase in the stock price - they got a bunch of early Apple stock. The bulk of this transaction was aboveboard and mutually beneficial.

Microsoft didn't pay for Apple's info; they got access to it under a pretext and did not in return put Apple in a position to profit from what was used.
I hate to break it to the poster (and I would if they hadn’t chickened out and actually put their name on their post) but software has bugs.

This is not a valid excuse. This is like running a red light, smashing into someone, and then telling them "hey, you should have looked before entering the intersection... you should know that people sometimes run red lights".

Yes, you should have backups. No, that doesn't make data-loss bugs any more excusable.
Why is it dated November 14, 2011?
People didn't really search for content when there were a handful or just one TV station or radio station. That's exactly the time when the hypothesis of strong media effects was very popular (also because of the then current fascist or communist regimes and their propaganda) yet researchers were again and again unable to confirm it.

I'm not saying that it's in principle not possible to influence people's opinions but I think it's very hard and we understand next to nothing about how one would go about influencing opinions in a systematic fashion.
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I keep thinking of this quote by George Bernard Shaw:

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Steve Jobs was the consummate unreasonable man.
Hmm. Did we read the same article? The Jobs presented here is a narcissistic, tantrum-throwing, deluded hypocrite -- a man whose many personal flaws served as (sometimes very significant) advantages in his environment. Even the question of whether these (borderline disgusting) flaws are vindicated by his ability to cause to develop products is left open.

I say this as a fan of Steve Jobs.
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Your discussion is missing the point. The people being talked about are farmers, to a certain extent, but it would make more sense to discuss about seasonal labour.
I moderately disagree with Gladwell's conclusions, and fear he is trying to 'tweak' his own theories about 'tweakers' to fit Jobs.

Jobs had faults and long-term insights. He liked what was beautiful. And he was really good at tweaking (and insisted on it until a kind of perfection).

But the other thing he had was imagination, insight into what was important in the long run, and really good engineers who were attracted by his insistence on excellence. It's not just about insistence on tweaking.

It's about NeXT and Pixar and excellence. Insistence on tweaking a design perfectly is correlated with excellence in imagination. They are not so different. You don't insist on tweaking something past all points of normal behavior -- unless you have that vision.
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