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Using a howitzer to kill a flea.

Isaacson writes fluidly, put in the research and reporting (also rehashed a lot of other people's), but doesn't know the technology or the tech business. In fact I don't get a sense he likes them or 'got' Steve Jobs.

Hatchet job might be strong. But he dwells a lot on the charismatic and narcissistic and mercurial personality and not on why so many great people loved Jobs and worked so hard for him. Or what his insights about products and the business were (besides being a control freak and perfectionist).

The book is a good read, it's a creditable first draft of history, contains some first-hand stuff I never saw before about the genesis of the iPod and iPhone and iPad.

Isaacson gives the who, what, when, where, but doesn't really explain why. To his credit, he lets the people speak for themselves.

Jobs could have picked a lot of other people, but he picked a non-tech, non-business writer. I guess he wanted someone to just tell the story, not the strategy or product vision that makes Apple great.

Maybe Gruber should interview a bunch of people and give it a shot. It's not what Isaacson set out for or was in a position to do.
That's it, I am going to break this myth.
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I'm from BITS Pilani (yeah, yeah, the BITS and IIT rivalry, yada yada) and we tactically try to keep these companies off the placement process as well.

I'm just glad that there's someone who does see the difference and is willing to talk about it.
Oh God, nothing annoys me more than that.

> We at Random Forums just wanted to email you to say happy birthday!

Who. Cares.
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Nice article, but it'd be nice to see what the author's proposed fix to this would be. Stopping multiple accounts from the same person is a nice idea in theory, but breaks when you realise it's technically impossible (IP checks are easy to work around, and ignore the fact that many people can share IP addresses).
Nice rant, but what's the alternative?
Well, the actual content and information is only one side of the coin. The other side is taking bad content off.
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Sometimes we humans are so disillusioned that we are correct, that we ignore any evidence that we are wrong.

Had he said "Wikipedia may one day become a failure" it really would have changed the whole tone of the article.
Because that makes it less nonsensical. :-)
The censorship doesn't really work when it's in the URL.
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It would be funny if they suddenly dropped the service because it wasn't generating a good "revenue stream". It would be chaos for awhile.
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Funny...that is exactly what I have been considering. Thanks for the lead.
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My vote would be for a strong reputation system (i.e. your edit must be approved if you are not a trusted editor); it may hurt one-time contributors but i think it would be for the best in the long run.
Nice. Looks similar to http://jsfiddle.net/
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a la Stack Overflow, you mean.
If so, they misquoted tptacek.
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Beginning last year I was in the same about you appear to be in. I can say, with a lot of confidence, I disagree with the previous comment. BECAUSE Ruby is such an articulate language it was fairly easy for me to pick up, with no formal CS classes in over 15 years. Might I suggest IF you have 1 year and 4hrs a day do the following:

1. Spend three months just in Ruby. I recommend LRTHW (Shaw) and LTP (Pine)

2. Code School 1 & 2.

3. Hartl (will hurt your head in a good way)

4. Repeat Step 1

5. Make apps, learn a few front-end frameworks (bootstrap, zurb-foundation) along the way.

6. Hit the IRC.
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here you go
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What computer would you rather use? A MacBook running Windows 7, or, say, a Lenovo ThinkPad running Mac OS X 10.7?

I'd take the ThinkPad running 10.6 thanks. 10.7 is a total clusterfuck. It pisses me off (a seasoned developer) and it confuses the fuck out of my wife (who isn't).
This post is from 2007. And things have changed drastically since then.

Ok, I am from Bangalore. And let me tell you. Technical skills are in heavy demand now.

To understand what the problem actually is. You need to understand this. Just like the web boom in US, there was an IT boom in India. IT companies witnessed a 100% year on year growth. Their workforce head count was doubling every year. And they really had no other option but to hire people from every engineering back ground. They were forced to promote people regardless whether or not they deserved it.

People became managers within 5-6 years of joining industry. And that is when the meme spread "Being a programmer doesn't help in IT you have to be a manager". We are long past those days now.

The growth has stabilized and I would rather say its completely normalized now. Companies are no longer feeling the need to promote people rapidly. In fact they now have a excess bench strength of managers. And many of them did get laid off in the past few years. Word has it that its going to very difficult for the managers from now on. As they bring little value to the table.

On the other hand the Indian IT industry is plagued by the disease of Job hopping. Absolute utter idiots who can't write a 10 line script now hop every year pocket a 30% raise get a promotion. You will see people who never wrote probably 1000 lines of code are now architects.

Given the scenario the operational efficiency of big IT companies has fallen like a pack of leaves. They are not taking high risk premium projects anymore. As they simply don't have the kind of good people to execute them.

The demand for good people is growing by the day. Most of them I know work at start up's or product firms or they are into consulting/freelancing. There is a lot of money there and there are a lot of tough good problems to be solved.

IT Industry in India is pretty much alive and rewarding, except that those rewards are no longer in big companies. They are else where. And hey, there is a lot of money being a programmer. More than managerial jobs.

You just have to come out of the big IT giants and get into smaller places.
You better have stronger reasons than those presented in the article to doom Wikipedia to be a "failure"

The problems stated by the author are valid however they are solvable. Definitely, Wikipedia must have a scoring system to allow editors with high points to have more credibility than those with lower points, also a system to eliminate the trouble makers.
For a map intended to show the distance of points from the nearest McDonalds' that isn't the best algorithm; equal pixel colour should => equal distance. I was thinking it'd be cool if distance were represented by height, in a 3D rendering. Also, make it a flythrough, with music :)
As personal appeals go, I'm just not sure. On the one hand it's almost impossible to sympathise with the guy's crazy predictions or hurt feelings. It definitely needs a big watery-eyed photo of him across the top or something. On the other hand, "don't bother" is a very powerful call-to-action -- so powerful that I nearly didn't bother reading the rest of the post.
If they could set the system up to incentivize quality rather than quantity, gamifying it could lead to more good edits as well.

I'm not sure it's plausible for Wikipedia, but it seems to work for StackOverflow. That said, StackOverflow does not have any seriously controversial material on it.
In the context of general marketing you are right, but in the context of Apples walled garden (app store) not only is that their job, it is their reason for existing.

The more content they can get under your nose that you like, the more content you buy, the more the app devs make, the more Apple makes and the more desired the iOS store becomes.

This is why Netflix and Amazon spend millions on their reccomendation engines; same idea here.

I think you probably knew this though. I am only solidying the point that inside any app stores environment, it is the job of the owner of the store to markwt the content effectively. Outside the store, anyone can do anything they want.
How about this from Rob Pike:

`Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.`
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from the small amount of time i've spent browsing wikipedia edit histories it appears that most of the useful cleanup (of vandalism and the like) is done by bots, not by users. the users who delete stuff delete it not because it's bad, but because it's 'not notable' or some other opinionated metric like that.
The economics of "Spite piracy" don't make sense. If you don't make a purchase the company gets no value. However, if you pirate content the big media conglomerates get the utility value of saying that there wares are a valuable contribution to society and that their innocent trade ships are being plundered by the evil Silicon Valley conspiracy. (Of which Google is the obvious head.)

Please people, if you really want to spite these companies, just ignore them. (Or at least attack them in ways that don't strengthen their arguments...) Releasing blockbuster films to no reception at all is the sort of thing that kills an industry. Dissidents making themselves the poster child of laws like SOPA and PIPA for no good reason isn't.
Try a traceroute to your neighbour who is likely on the same physical Comcast segment as you. It's not a simple 2-hop route. It goes way out and comes back.
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You missed the point of the paragraph and cherry picked a sentence out of context. The first two sentences of the paragraph you cite are:

"For me, the answers are easy. It’s the software that matters most to me. "

He then partners iOS and Mac OS software on competitor hardware because it is the software that matters most to him. He isn't using the ThinkPad as an example of "inferior hardware".

"That's the point. Gruber threw up a billboard in paragraph four that says, if you think it's at all unclear that the MacBook Pro is the greatest laptop design of all time, read no further."

No, he didn't.
What about all those deletions of "not notable enough" articles?, which in fact were more notable then all the other crap that's on wikipedia.
Let's not get hung up on how literally he intends his rhetoric. He's expressing his opinion of its doom given current dynamics (including many that are not evident to most readers).

He may be right, he may be wrong, but it's more honest and interesting for him to give this sort of bottom-line judgement starkly. As generous readers, we can fill in all the implied qualifiers ("from my experience", "in ways that aren't obvious", "if current trends continue", "unless my recommendations are followed", etc.).
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Which all companies will you try to keep out?

Nearly every big company is plagued by these problems. The problem is even if they take you through tough algo and DS quizzes(Which are irrelevant anyways) most of the work is maintenance.

Whether you do that work in a product company or a outsourced firm. It makes little difference.

This is more of a large company problem, this is not a problem restricted only to outsourcing firms.
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Dave Winer called from three months ago...

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/27/theJobsBook.html

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/11/21/whyJobsChoseIsaacson...
LOL - I'm convinced this is why so many of Google's lab stuff are stuck in beta. The cool parts have been built but nobody wants to finish the last 20% that takes up 80% of the time. =)
The reason why editors stagnate is more like this:

Wikipedia will die because noone real can contribute. Write a new article and it will be shot down. Write an article about important programming languages and it will be killed with some strange acronym.

Exception: a several thousand word article about what Homer did eat in one 8 year old Simpson episode will stay.

"Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia "
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215168

His “on the list” idea is totally Wikipedia directorate style and a.) will be implemented b.) will accelerate stagnation

Wikipedia will stay relevant - and I still use it - for some trivia I want to know, it's usually sufficient complete there. But it creates a mirror universe that reflects the thoughts of all editors, not of the online community.
> It sounds kind of sleazy (redirecting "no record" to an ad seems a little off to me)

It doesn't just seem off. It is off: it's a major violation and a large part of why I don't use OpenDNS.

When a name doesn't resolve, I want to see my browser's page for a DNS failure. I don't want to see ads.
I haven't seen Nike or Reebok show hints of transparency in their supply chain. They probably have harsher conditions than tech manufacturing, but I'm guessing they've learned to keep their worker suicide rates on the down low so nobody throws a fuss. I think it's kind of odd that Apple is one of the few companies with this kind of transparency.
I do have the time and am considering Code Academy in Chicago, but after more investigation I have began to wonder if RoR is really for beginners..because it borrows so much from others.

I had planned to take a year and learn it full-time starting in March, but I am having second thoughts.

thanks for the post
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In one possible future Wikipedia editors are vetted by an independent auditing commission consisting of topic experts, an Institutional Review Board and a jury of their peers. Once vetted they are given a cap and gown that they must wear while committing their edits. They would also be allowed to put the letters W.E.C and the number of pages they are considered arbiters of after their name and on their facebook profile. All Wikipedia Editors Confirmed would be allowed to park in handicap parking spots and be given preference in matters of tenure at all educational institutions. Order would prevail, knowledge would be defended, und so weiter.

In another possible future a collection of bots will textmine wikipedia edits in realtime and many wikipedia janitors will rely on botscores to determine which edits are fraudulent. Advanced wikipedians will become cyborganisms devoted to spotting evidence of bad intent, their skills will be in high demand as corporate negotiatiors and wikipedia will languish as the cognitive bandwidth of it's most effective members is coopted into helping facebook fend off it's antitrust lawsuit and making the democratic parties stranglehold on national politics unassailable.

In another possible future it is revealed that Chris Poole is actually Jimmy Wales father due to bizarre accident involving a time machine and an ice cream sandwich, and that the entirety of the wikipedia project is in fact an elaborate troll designed to spell out a very rude word in babylonian when viewed from the right angle from three light years away. (that is a very disturbing future indeed).
Yep. Wikipedia rejects primary sources as a matter of policy. No original research means that the only "legitimate" content can be secondary or tertiary. Mistakes can't be corrected by people in a position to know the truth- whatever information must be published somewhere first. This is completely backward from how quality content must normally be created.
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Tired of the constant wikipedia naysayers. Yes, it has problems, but it's still a resounding success. People seem to ignore the idea that something can fail in some area but still be strong overall.

'edits are declining' does not mean that the wiki is declining. The low-hanging fruit has been largely been done. I imagine also that vandalism control is improved, leading to less vandal edits and less corrective edits. I think the 'edits are declining' comment is far more complex than simply 'editors are fed up and leaving in droves'.

People have been naysaying Wikipedia since the day it started, yet it's still in the top 5 websites by visits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
Sadly, I don't think any of them are popular with the general public; even big names like foursquare and possibly Zaarly.
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Awesome on paper. Much less awesome in reality.
Also probably didn't hurt to have stories of people making money with fart apps and the like. "Wow, even I could make something like that." (fast forward a few months) watches trickle of $1 sales
He seems to be sure the number of active contributors is going down due to poor oversight and 'troublemakers'. In my experience this is wrong - far more important is that people can't be bothered to get their head around wikipedias obtuse structure and ever-more-complex editing methodology, and when they do, their contributions can be overzealously edited out by the wikipedia police...
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"You're talking to the person, rather than to the point. I'm not the point."

You actually are an expression of the point though. Most of your posts in this topic are as exemplar of the resonance to the RDF as any I've ever seen.
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I notice that the peak in activity is about the same time as the advent of the Notability guideline [1]. I think the two are related, but I only have one data point to back my opinion.

For me, the zealous application of notability was when Wikipedia changed from being an attempt to document everything to an attempt to replicate what already existed in paper, and I lost the fire in the belly.

It's got to be one of the most contentious issues in the project, with half considering it the saviour of Wikipedia and the other half considering it the death.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notabili...
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In passing, anyways. I find the whole child modeling scene and anything around it to be just plain weird on a good day.

I saw plenty of creepy things, but I never saw anything that could be remotely classified as "child pornography".
I am probably a very small minority in this regard, but in this , for me, and to grubers point, it's the hardware not the software.

The hardware is an aesthetic superior design. But I run windows 7 on it. I find windows 7 to be a far superior user experience to osx, faster, and at least on this hardware more stable. Apple provides the easiest driver install procedure for windows then any other provider, I just find osx itself... Rather primitive, most likely imo due to the insistence of Apple on providing a hermetic user experience.

No tech company, no matter how smart, has all the answers in one box.
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I am not sure if the post was troll bait or not. Denying the possibility of truth within the massive generalization in the topic wouldn't be best idea, having said that one has too look at companies like Gluster [Acquired by RedHat] and InMobi to look at some high technology being produced from this part of the world.
Given the population of India, there are actually more english speaking people over here than the whole of Britain, similarly even a high number of brilliant programmers would get drowned the chorus of massive coders working for huge outsourcing firms.
Since you come from India itself as your blog suggest, and are from computer science related field, and hence would be very well verse with what I have mentioned above, I find digging a five year old post, combining with the topic headline 'Are Indian Programmers not Programmers but just Coders' not in the very best spirits.
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This strikes me as a bit hand-wavey. ("Don't pay attention to the glaring technical inaccuracies that have somehow made it into the "official" biography of a technical icon, focus on the human story). It is certainly possible that Isaacson got the "human" side right, but when you're talking about a human who's iconic achievements are inseparable from the technologies he created, that's a pretty weak defense.
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I think one of the strengths of Ruby and thus RoR is its kind of simple. Although I will admit the leap to 3.1 was probably more difficult than it ought to have been. I can only speak for NYC but joining the local meetup community has done wonders for my skill building. But remember, this is a ten year process =) Good luck!
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