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That makes for a great headline, but it's wrong. He absolutely did not ignore profit: he understood its proper place better than most.

Jobs loved profit. He understood that the best products, marketed properly, can produce extraordinary profits. He wanted his products to generate a lot of profit so he could keep plowing that necessary profit back into producing ever better insanely great creations. He most certainly did not eschew profits, he understood not to put the profit before the product. There's a very big and critical difference between eschewing profits and knowing their place.
I checked out this plenty of fish website. It is amazing because most dating websites cannot get people to upload pictures of themselves. Plenty of Fish has broken the personal photo stigma.

The odd thing is that, according to their website, Plenty of Fish is actually hiring despite what is printed in the New York Times.

On face value, Plenty of Fish is a standard dating website (compare to OKCupid) which makes its success more impressive.
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I think self directed learning is far better than going back to school. You can pic and choose and curate the exact learning experiences you want.

Don't mean to self promote, but you are welcome to be part of the free peer learning community on http://diycomputerscience.com/ You might actually like the 'Elements of Computing Systems' course a lot.
I also bought the books which I would never had I not had library.nu. Don't tell me about the preview in Amazon, for these particular books I had to see more other pages than "legally" available to make a decision.

I really mourn the loss of library.nu
Through lion at least.

There are a couple 3rd-party apps to address: one's called 'Time Machine Buddy' and another is 'Log Viewer for Time Machine'. Neither is super-slick (or seems to do anything more than grepping /var/log/system.log for backupd info), but they cover the basic need... once you know it's an issue, which may only happen after being bitten.
I think most employers would look at it positively. Those who don't are probably the employers you don't want to work for anyways.
What I like to do is add a variables.txt file to the root of the project as a sort of legend for any unconventional variables I have to name. I try to stay as relevant as possible, but sometimes 'anospic' is better than 'average_numbers_picked'.

Good or bad, it works.
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I think I recall that Malcolm Gladwell has mentioned this; the inventor had to test it on himself live to get people to believe in it; who'd have believed it if he'd used a carrot to demo it?
That really is not true. I appreciated the post because it gave me a perspective on what life is like for people who aren't like me; it has nothing to do with politics unless you want to start arguing about politics.
Can you cite where you learned this from (Steve Jobs' view on profits)?
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We debuted the app at Macworld. Our Clear coverage was in a MacRumors post that covered highlights from the show floor.

Our marketing was definitely competent. Realmac Software worked with a local video producer and shot a great sizzling video, and we reached out to a bunch of people with the beta and promo codes before the app hit. But there wasn't anything special or crazy going on in the external marketing.

I can't stress enough, the answer to the submitter's question is the app, and what I would describe as a design and feature reboot to a very crowded space. I think this resonates with iPhone users.

The app got people who saw it and tried it very excited. It sells itself, and seems to make evangelists out of its users. Sure, our marketing and press efforts helped accelerate its spread through twitter and stuff on launch day. But as a random anecdote, we've had thousands of people send out copies to friends as gifts already, and I've simply never seen that before.

If we're onto something here, it's definitely with the app and its design and not so much its marketing. Clear's marketing is very vanilla. Its design, not so much.
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This looks like a great resource for new developers. I'm planning to walk through it in the coming weeks.
This headline/article is missing the word 'short-term' in a few places.
Just having finished hosting a hackathon ( http://blog.blrdroid.org/?p=526) I totally disagree.

Hackathons are more about fun and in the process if something comes out of it , its a bonus.

If you are going into a hackathon with the goal of getting something out , your approach is wrong.
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I'm not an expert in North Sea Oil, but I expect Norway is still an net oil exporter. (I don't know whether they count as West European according to your definition.)
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What a naively written article. Jobs was indeed a visionary with a passion for technology. But he was an extremely shrewd businessman.

igadgets are all manufactured (by hand) in china, in a factory that consists of 300,000 workers! They might easily work 12 hour days, 6 days a week. And suicide is rampant.

This keeps costs as low as possible, and allows apple to focus it's big profit on further innovation.

Fair game in my opinion, I'm not one to judge the morals on this issue, But call a spade a spade.
Sometimes when I have trouble coming up with a good name it's a sign that I need to rethink the surrounding code as well.

Since naming is hard, I try to minimize the number of names I create. I think the number of names in a codebase is a measure of complexity.
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In his biography he talks about the importance of Apple generating a profit in order to re-invest into producing new products. That healthy profits were not only necessary but desirable to that end. I believe he has also said as much in interviews in talking in general about the nature of business (I will try to dig those up). It's why he recognized that a company was the best vehicle to use to marry his love of the arts with technology, as he is quoted in his book.

It's perfectly logical, as it's not cheap to do what Apple does when it comes to creating. There's a reason they just hit $100 billion in cash - Jobs knew full well the value of profit and what it should properly be used for. They know the value and safety in being able to build what you want to, and not being constrained for oxygen due to low cash or debt or lack of profits.
Naming things to be clear in the beginning, stay clear as the system grows, is quite easily one of the hardest things in developing software.

Over generalized or specific names cause far more confusion and productivity loss than we think.

So take the time to learn what you're working on and how it works at the micro and macro level not only in the context of the application itself, but where and how the application fits in it's ecosystem.

Learn the lingo that your software's ecosystem uses, instead of inventing, by accident or purpose, your own clever and tricky rationalizations ending up in even more confusing concepts and names describing the same things.

The purpose of naming is similar to the purpose of software; creating clarity and empowerment, instead of more confusion and conceptual gymnastics.
People can form opinions themselves you know, we are not all content to be "secondary sources".

He doesn't have to have "learned" it in some specific source, besides observing Steve Jobs actions and words.

So, I find this "citation needed" meme, when the thing discussed is some personal opinion or a value judgement or an estimation or some sort, to be ridiculous.
I have worked independently for over a decade., so I often factor in time for study in my regular work schedule, but at times I have also taken longer breaks.

One I too about a year off on a startup idea I had. It did not work out, but I learned some important lessons.

I have also taken 3 months off to be part of a startup accelerator as a fellow. I did not have any product, but just spend my time working on a few experiments / prototypes and generally helping other teams wherever I could.

The ideas experimented did become my startup, which I have been working on since the past year or so. It is actually related to peer based learning (http://diycomputerscience.com/), so I am hoping that learning will be an integral part of working for me.
I don't think Jobs ignored profits at all. His aim was to create a company that makes products that people love and more money to Apple enabled more of their creativity. I do think one of the things that make Apple very different is that they are not afraid of cannibalizing their own business for an even bigger market, and also they're better than most at recognizing what that market is.
igadgets are all manufactured (by hand) in china, in a factory that consists of 300,000 workers! They might easily work 12 hour days, 6 days a week. And suicide is rampant.

Are Sony gadgets manufactured any differently?

Also, considering Apple is probably the only major consumer electronics company to actually be transparent about working conditions (unlike the others who also do the same thing but don't care), it's not only unfair, but seriously biased "hateboy" fare to keep picking on them about that, especially out of context for no apparent reason.
Another possible solution is to put the full variable name in a comment next to the first declaration, in languages with variable declarations. Like this:

double anospic; // average numbers picked

Just raising it as an option; I haven’t actually used that style much myself. With the code I’ve been writing recently I haven’t had any problems so far giving variables names as long as I’d like.
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so copy pasting PGP is somehow getting it right?
Only available on Linux.

More portably, you can use something like netcat or socat.
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Apple is also famous for supply chain management and embargoes; if that isn't profit focus what is?
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Easy counter-argument: If Apple is placing the customer first, why not sell the product at half the price (thus only 5% profit margin), wouldn't that make more customers even more happier?

Branching out to different fields )i.e. iPod) than your current bread-and-butter is not ignoring profits, it is being smart and realizing there are opportunities in other markets.
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You're missing the point. ramblerman was just pointing out that Steve Jobs actually was interested in profitability and if he wasn't he probably wouldn't have moved manufacturing to China.
Good comment. I do not agree with everything you said, so let me elaborate a little.

1 - Eating too much is not the issue. Eating too much of the wrong things is the issue.

No, I assure that even if you eat too much healthy food, you will grow fat and obese the same. Unhealthy food may make it worse for a number of reasons, but excess is anyway going to be a problem, no matter what you eat.

2 - Unhealthy foods are cheaper than fresh fruits, veggies, and meat by an almost comically large margin. This is due to a number of causes, most saliently massive government subsidization of unhealthy food industries.

First, I would not classify "meat" as healthy food. That probably depends on your education and your view of meat, but you get a lot of fat percentage for the amount of calories. 50 years ago people were eating meat probably like 10 times less that we are and were (probably, I dont have numbers with me now) less sick. For your second point, "unhealthy" food is, I think, rather the result of people not considering food as important. Therefore food becomes a commodity. People prefer spending their money on vacation, video games, buying the latest smartphone and so on. Even those who HAVE the money. It's clearly a cultural problem: food has lost "value" per se. I do not know where you live so I cannot comment on that, but in most developped countries governments are also massively subsidizing small-sized farms (true in Europe and some parts of Asia at least).

3a. I agree with the time element, but I disagree in the responsibility. Of course, if one feels like you have to watch 4 hours of dumb TV shows every night to be satisfied with their lives, then there will no time for cooking. But anyone who can spare 30-45 mins a day in the evening can cook something healthy. Of course, it will not be something complex, but it is feasible. Please do not tell you need longer than that, of I will have to film myself cooking to prove my point.

3b. Now if you cannot even afford a car I admit this is a problem, especially in North America. Then it makes access to quality food more difficult. I can't argue on that one.

3c. Allright, of course there are poors who live in the worst conditions ever, and putting good food on the table is far from their priorities. But come on, when we talk about the obesity epidemic, we are talking about something like 33% of the whole US population having this obesity problem. You cannot seriously tell me that 33% of the US is composed of poor people living in crime-ridden suburbs. (http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.HTML)

A number of these 33% HAVE the money, HAVE the time, HAVE the means to eat good food, but decide not to. For a lot of these people, this IS a lifestyle choice. There is noway around that, and there would be no epidemic if this was confined to the "poor/rich" rhetoric.
I am quite surprised that such a simple question of why does a tiger have stripes (which kids are asking all the time) went so long unanswered. I wonder how many questions like this are there?
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Agreed. Any subsidiary CA should be meeting all the requirements imposed on the root CAs - and if they are, then they could simply be included in the browser root programs in their own right rather than paying another CA for a sub-CA cert.
If you use a decent IDE, having longer variable names is nearly no cost.
Every time someone says you can't do schema-less design as easily in RDBMS', I cite this EAV article on Wikipedia.

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I'm curious about a lot of things. Scientific backing is not a requirement for me to try something (as long as it's safe to try, of course).

Of course, me trying something out also constitutes a form of science (with a sample size of n=1 and no placebo controls, but at least I find out if it works for me).

That being said, I haven't given NLP a serious try (yet). I have a bunch of books on it but I find it hard to get started for some reason. Maybe I need a coach, but their rates are typically way out of my league.

Here's an example of a book I own, which is NLP-based: http://www.amazon.com/Make-People-Like-Seconds-Less/dp/07611...

The premise of that book is pretty damn appealing. Perhaps you see now why I'm interested in this area.

My overall impression of NLPers is sleaziness and trying to milk me for money via their uber-expensive seminars. However, I'm still going to try and find out if the techniques are useful to me, since I do know people in my social circle for whom they seem to work.

The main thing I like about NLP is how it breaks down thought. It doesn't just see "thoughts" as atomic, but rather asks about mental images, internal dialogue, emotional associations, etc (ie the VAKOG model of sensory representation - Visual Auditory Kinesthetic Olphactory Gustatory).

All in all, I don't think I need to be karma-bitchslappad just for asking a question. Also, I'm already in a shitty mood since I'm still hungover from Saturday :)
Psh! You only ask for forgiveness if someone says that you did something wrong. And, in the author's case, he hasn't had to ask for forgiveness yet.
About your sentence : "there are no animal species that do not age".

Well, I hate to use Wikipedia for that, but current observations seem to disagree with this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long-living_organisms

You'll see in that post that there are several species for which we find that mortality does not increase with age, i.e. they do not appear to age.

Now, I am not a specialist on the subject, so I will not be able to go into debate whether this is truth or fiction, but I have heard/seen this mentioned in several sources.
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Here is a cool trick to square numbers made up of repeating 1 (one).

Count the number of repeating 1 in the number to be squared and put the digits ascending from 1 up to that number. That is, if there are four 1's in the number to be squared, put 1234.
Then, put down the same numbers inversely, that is, 321.

That’s it. It is so easy, it’s just mental math. Easy and fast.

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In what situation is the name 'anospic' acceptable? In a small scope, 'avg' or 'average' would probably read better. In a larger scope, you'd have to remember that it really means 'average_numbers_picked' each time it appears -- why not just use that name?
Yeah, Policenauts is a pretty good game. I hope you enjoy it. There are several versions available, but I believe you can get it easily for Playstation.

I agree that Half-Life was decent, too. Re: RE, I found RE2 to be especially thrilling, with the parallel stories you could explore after finishing the game once.
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Interestingly, Apple is placing the customer first by charging what they do.

Why? Because you couldn't do what Apple does with a 5% profit margin. They can ignore Wall Street, creditors (which they don't have), sharks, hostile investors (Carl Icahn etc), and so on all because they generate a healthy profit.

Who thinks it would be a good situation for Apple to be begging at Bill Gates' (ala 1997; whomever it might be) knees in the future if something goes wrong with an iPhone launch? I'm betting their customers don't think it would be good.

If Apple's customers love their products, it's in the interest of those customers to keep funding Apple's ability to keep doing what it does. What Apple does costs a lot of money. One slip at their scale could easily cost $10 billion. A 5% margin would not cover that.

If their next data center costs $5 billion in cash to build due to ever increasing scale and complexity, and they had had 5% margins all this time, it might be a stretch to pull it off (maybe with debt). If the global complexities of navigating a world wide mobile product increase to ever bigger scale, that 5% margin wouldn't cut it. I couldn't imagine trying to manage the iPhone at 100 million in sales, on a 5% margin. They're not selling jelly beans.

How about if Foxconn keeps having to raise wages by 15% to 25% per year for the next ten years. Again, 5% margins would not cut it. Or if that did happen, and Apple then finds it more cost effective to build completely automated robotic assembly systems, but it costs $20 billion to R&D and construct that... and so on and so forth.
> And suicide is rampant.

No. It fucking isn't.

The Foxconn suicide rate is well sourced on Wikipedia [1].

Here's the interesting bit:

"In 2010, Foxconn's worst year for suicides with a total of 14 deaths, their total employee count was 930,000 people. The suicide rate for Foxconn this year was 1.5 per 100,000 making it well below the national average (around 7% the national average). Even if calculated as if all the employee deaths were from the Shenzhen factory complex alone (to simulate a localised area suicide rate), which in 2010 had a workforce of 450,000, the rate is still well below the national average at 3.11 per 100,000 (around 14% the national average)."

Also worth pointing out, that this is significantly lower than the US suicide rate, as documented by the national institute for mental health [2].

Please stop propagating this myth.

Also, this took me LESS THAN THIRTY SECONDS OF RESEARCH. Please learn to think for yourself.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides

[2] http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/suicide-in-the-u...
> Most companies cannot bring themselves to make decisions that result in the market for their existing core products being completely destroyed. When they consider it from a financial perspective, it just doesn’t make sense to create new products at the risk of jeopardizing your profitable, existing products.

All Apple's profitable, existing products are eventually made unprofitable by shoddier but equally capable clones. Think Windows, Android, the myriad of MP3 players you can pick up for tens of dollars. The only way they maintain profitability is by bein innovative and creating new markets that they can dominate for a short while (and by generating brand loyalty for their older products because of their new products). So there isn't a profitability vs. innovation dilema for Apple. For them being innovative is being profitable.
1) https://twitter.com/ (and if someone can do a MITM on that, they can also do it on your cryptweet server)

2) environments where "your survival depends on efficiently communicating and organising" tend to ignore habeus corpus and standards of evidence. Realistically, your survival depends on external factors (your side winning) rather than hoping you and everyone you've been communicating with can withstand torture indefinitely.

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Jobs actually tried to set up a custom factory to build computers in the 80's. He learnt from that lesson why it wasn't a good idea. (read this from an older version of an "unauthorised" biography).
I still don't understand how it confuses you. More like you don't use Pintrest like many others (including me)

I too registered on to it, used it to see what the hype is all about, but now I hardly open the site. I don't even have the notifications enabled.

But there are loads of people who do want to look at the trends in the fashion world. Probably they find the concept to be very powerful and thats why they are using it.
Apple is the company that sells $3000 laptops that are comparable to most $1200-1500 laptops, but are slightly prettier and less serviceable and $70 keyboards with broken debouncers.

If you're going to write an article about 'ignoring profit' cite some specific products and how they were priced cheaply, or get off the frickin' pot.
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