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>How is it that he was so successful and how did apple become the behemoth it is today if the man at the wheel was so insufferable?

Unlike the other commenters, I don't think the answer is vision, tho it certainly plays a part.

The reason people kept working with him is because when he wanted to he could be devastatingly charming. He was one of those people that can make you feel like what you have to say is the most important thing in the world. He was so good they coined a whole piece of slang just to describe him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
LAG/MLAG operates at a lower layer (datalink) than IP and TCP (transport).

Because of that, LAG/MLAG can support more than just MPTCP and, in fact, the two aren't mutually exclusive.
1) How can you be in tech and not know Steve jobs, more so given that you work at apple?
2) Steve was a dick... most of the times, especially when he wanted his way. nothing new.
3) You gripe should be with spineless middle management, not CEOs.
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Then lenovo puts in a few coins into R&D and takes the market slightly up from the low end. Which IBM gladly gives away because the margins aren't high enough...

Then Lenovo puts a few more coins into R&D and takes the midrange. Which IBM gladly gives up because the margins aren't high enough...

This has happened more than a few times across several industries - American cars, Japanese electronics, mainframe/mini/microcomputers, etc.

EDIT: Also see apricot computer. Which did the /exact/ same thing - outsourced the production of it's "commodity" computers, losing its special sauce, and lucrative service contracts. It was gone in a flash. Sir John Harvey-Jones even did an episode of the UK show "the troubleshooter" on them. It's a sure way to make a quick buck this quarter, but horrible long term.
I miss Meego.
The issue is a CEO who can afford to build themselves a nearby nursery for their newborn yet expects employees who can't afford such a privilege to follow a policy that prevents them from telecommuting in order to enjoy the same sort of family time.
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This reads like sour grapes.

If it really was Steve Jobs's "fault that the MobileMe launch went so poorly" because of "the system that he created," and her team was really as "completely kick-ass" as she says it was, then why has Apple had so much success with so many projects run exactly the same way?

The problem with MobileMe was the engineering management, not the system.

If anything this shows how vulnerable the Apple "system" is to the quality of the people they hire, and why they spend so much effort trying to hire and hold on to A-grade people. That just doesn't jive with the tired lore of Jobs being an asshole all the time. They wouldn't be able to hold on to folks like they have.
I really don't understand the uproar and significance here.

I read through the book because I figured there'd be something insightful, interesting, or explanatory in there. There basically isn't. If it's just supposed to be art -- some kind of odd, disjointed story for its own sake -- then at least that's something, even if I didn't really care much for it.

I do like some of the presentation. The print queue thing is clever, and the variety of scans/handwriting/printing in the work, where it's not a hindrance to reading, is fun (I can see that the hindrance is part of the work, but it still comes off as obnoxious to me).

Still, it leaves me wondering: Why do people care about this? It's some guy that believed he wasn't a good programmer, stopped programming, went AWOL from the internet, was happy about it, and then apparently wrote some sort of strange fiction. OK, whatever floats your boat, but usually these fads pass. This one just won't go away, even though going away is exactly what the author did (or, arguably, is continuously failing to do).

Do those of you getting high on this see it as some kind of existential statement or puzzle? I think way too much is being read into the whole thing.
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> We should create human readable (memorable) hashes to map names to specific data...

Can anyone elaborate on this? I don't quite get how the whole system could possibly be implemented. Also, it's been two years, are there any papers/projects related to the idea?
The devices handling 32x100GbE connections are only able to do that because of the very specialized ASICs that have been custom developed.

I'm not aware of any device that is software-based that could come remotely close to handling that about of traffic. Most current PC-level hardware has trouble w/ 2x10GbE links (if they can even support that).
Does her no tele-commuting policy not make her inconsiderate of employees who can't afford to build their own nurseries in order to spend the same amount of time with their families that she does? The message she is sending is that she expects people working for her to make a sacrifice that she has gone out of her way to avoid.
I've always thought that Computer Science is a field best mastered through experience in actually programming in your chosen language(s).

I wonder how many people do Master's or PhD programs simply because they want to stay in school.
A lot of people want to be like Steve jobs, but have neither the balls to commit the way he did, nor the requisite skills to evaluate like he did. So as has been mentioned elsewhere, there's just a bunch of mediocre assholes out there who would be mediocre ass holes wether or not Jobs had ever existed, only he did, and that validates their shitty behaviour in their own inflated heads.
This sort of idea is really interesting to me, and the thought of it happening in Austin is quite tantalizing (I wouldn't have to move!).

I find it pretty hard to function in typical management structures, though I work better with teams/some sort of external visibility (my personal projects tend to gather dust too easily, though I'm working on improving this). The concept of an incubator-like environment for collaborating on ideas without the extreme focus on growth would be a perfect fit for people like me.
> for some reason a nursery gets singled out as some outlandish thing.

It's got nothing to do with the monetary value of the perk. It's not outlandish, just in terrible taste as both a human and a leader. We work from home for many reasons, and being closer to our families is often one of those reasons. She outlawed WFH in order to have employees focus better on work, the communication clearly being "there is work time, and there is family time, and the twain shan't meet" -- and then promptly built a family-time haven for herself at the office.

That's what makes it offensive. It isn't that employees can't afford to be with their kids -- at least, not the same way that they can't afford a private jet and so forth. The message is, "We all need to buckle down and make sacrifices to rebuild Yahoo!... well, except for me. I can have it all."
This is pretty much why they had this at HG
I don't disagree with your suggestion, but when you're closing up shop, there's often a heck of a lot more pressing issues on your plate than wondering whether someone will be able to view your long-dead site after you've laid it to rest. Being a dick is a possible reason for not doing this, but there's a lot of others that don't require or imply malice.
Wow, did not realise that a) Yahoo kids existed and b) it was so embarrassingly terrible.
There are several related RFCs[0], and the IETF's "Data Tracker" page for the MPTCP[1] working group has a lot of great documents as well.

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=multipath+tcp+rfc
[1]: http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mptcp/
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This was on HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5527610

Has anyone gotten anything but an auto-ack from them?
Has MPTCP been tested with CoDel?
I've been in this situation before. The my way or the highway attitude is a bad mindset to have when managing engineers. Skilled engineers are free thinkers and will push back on bad design. If someone says they can write something better than your spagetti code you shouldn't yell at them or make them feel inferior. You should allow them to build a system that will be clean and maintainable for the sake of all engineers that have to work on the codebase. Good leaders should know humility and when to admit they are wrong.
> She probably could afford most of the perks her jobs provides, but for some reason a nursery gets singled out as some outlandish thing.

You're being obtuse. Obviously, the nursery is getting singled out because of the no-telecommuting policy. The policy conveniently doesn't impact her because she has the ability to build a nursery to address the issue of family time, a luxury her employees don't have. And so she is getting criticized for being inconsiderate of her employees and putting them in a difficult situation that she doesn't have to endure.

The issue isn't having perks as a CEO but using one's position to avoid dealing with a personal situation while expecting employees to make the sacrifice. It's uncompassionate. That seems like a reasonable criticism of a boss.
I would add that you should also allow yourself to get "bored" as that is often what leads to creativity and other breakthroughs.

My last blog post was actually the result of exactly that, when ironically, I had finished reading all of the posts that interested me on the front page of Hacker News.
It does matter a lot, think about it.
I'm not sure what this even means. Are you saying there isn't room for efforts like 1) pushing for better recruiting practices 2) teaching grown women to code?
I'm not so sure. Apple hires the best and their evaluations of new candidates are rigorous, so I doubt they have idiots running things. We all know there's a lot of the worlds best talent at Apple. But they struggle a lot with the web services they've tried to create. Mobile me, iCloud, game centre, ping, Maps; these have all fallen short of Apples promises. It's a repeating pattern that to me indicates a culture issue inside Apple.
Note that gcc's C++11 support was feature-complete as of about two weeks ago... :]

[Seriously]
Really? Can you name one?
There is a large variance in how well departments look after their students. Some will give you a decent stipend and some security of income. Others you will be totally dependent on the good-will of your advisor, or have to fight for teaching assistant positions.
> Grōōvy isn’t really about statically enforcing things

They added a statically-compiled mode to Grōōvy last year. Most users like Grails don't use it yet, but it's there to try out and you can report any problems to the Grōōvy issue tracker.
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All due respect to the work that went into Upcoming, but nothing else covers the same things? I can't remember why or when I stopped using Upcoming.org, but I was also using Eventful and Zvents at the same time, and I still use them, for the exact same thing.
> they are a net loss to collaboration.

Implicit is the assumption that high-bandwidth collaboration is necessary and useful to all people in all functions at all times.

It's not.

A designer might just need to crank out a PSD without 30 people dropping by their cube. A programmer might want to work on their tickets (which were created with collaboration) without talking to anyone.

Or, like you said, there may be some meetings where being f2f is better. It happens a lot. I schedule my wfh around my meeting days, usually.
> they'd made a series of thoughtful hires, including PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf

Uh.
I wouldn't put it as in a negative way as you did when you say you feel stupid and inferior for not being an english native speaker, but I can feel you. It's one of those moment you say to yourself: hey, I've always been better than any non native local english speaker, now how is that I get only 1 sentence out of 4? And you feel jealous of those who are "gifted" to be english native speakers. you eventually end up wishing for a translated version.. so why not taking the occasion to ask if someone would be interested in doing that? Of course I can't tell you what language I'd like it to be translated in, because it'd be a step further in destroying my anonimity ;) Well, it wouldn't matter anyway, because I am sure it would be translated in other languages too afterward, and my language would certainly be covered.. wouldn't it? We should poll and check how many and which would be the more requested languages.. as a start? So yea, hope someone catches this up...
I definitely don't agree with this. Jobs' contribution to a whole lot of wallets, most of them already fat, was extremely positive. His role in many contributions to the advancement of technology was also significant.

"Society" is something he did not contribute much at all to. Workers' rights, work environments, corporate culture, none of these things benefited from Jobs at all; his contributions to them were largely negative.
Recruiting for Hack Year - thoughts on this program for HS grads?
http://whytheluckystiff.net/

Free combs on his website, apparently...
Ask HN: Splitting a company between 2 co-founders.
While the company has became somewhat feasible, the relationship isn't working out.
Currently, we are making about 3k/month and the profit is growing by $500/month.
The co-founder wants to walk out and start a competition. He wants to do it by taking the code with him and white labeling it.

I'm looking for any advice or suggestion on how much I should be paying him.

Thanks everyone!
Well to be fair, the "Steve was awesome" stories usually contain some form of the "Steve was an ass" caveat.
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Quote: "Even Steve Jobs wasn't Steve Jobs initially. He only outed himself as a giant jerk after he had a company that could afford to have a huge turnover, and he had a pile of minions that hero-worshiped him no matter what he did."

This isn't true. I knew Steve when he and Steve Wozniak were starting Apple, in the late 1970s, and he (Jobs) was always intolerable -- it wasn't something that came out after he acquired power. I couldn't stand working with him, so, even though people at Apple asked me to stay, I wouldn't. (I eventually worked with Apple on various software projects, but not at Apple.)

Steve Jobs had the worst interpersonal dynamics of anyone I have ever met. All that proves is that being perpetually rude and having terrible people skills isn't a deal-breaker in corporate America.
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Work on supporting some provisional C++1y features is already underway: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
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I have some friends in Takamatsu, near the airport. They run workshops - some commercial and some just for fun - from their home which is an old farmhouse. 3-581-2, Yasuharashimo, Kagawa-ken, Japan 761-1504.
If you wanted to run your own workshop, or join one of theirs I am sure Kazu or Masa would be pleased to know you. They are interested in web design amongst many other things. Anyway, theirs is the kind of place you can just turn up and talk to whoever is around at the time. You'd be welcome to drop in whenever in the area. I will probably be staying there for a week or two myself this summer. Maybe we could meet up?
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Hacker news group dinners? (I'm gone tonight, but this seems like a decent idea)
Let's say that each programmer is responsible for a programming club at a public school. Reasonably the club would meet 3 times a week, and would be 2 hours per session. Homework would be assigned, which would need to be 'graded', so you could easily expect 10 - 15 hours a week for the teaching commitment.

Now, how many students would you be able to handle per mentor? I agree that teaching is part of leadership, but few team leaders have had to teach a 100 people at the same time. Maybe 30 per mentor?

Of course, after a year or two the senior students could help as mentors.

Who would join? Since it's a club, students will expect it to be fun. Granted, there are sports, band, cheerleading, etc where it is accepted that there will be hard work involved. They each have some kind of payoff, like games and concerts. I guess the club would be broken down into coaching and development sessions to teach skills, and then projects to develop them. You would want the projects to be something that the students could show the rest of the school, like a website or toy app. It would need to be small enough to be completed during a semester and could be done with the help of the art or A/V club.

How will a professional programmer feel about all of this? Yes, it is rewarding to teach, but at the same time you would be working with teenagers with varying levels of commitment. You're selecting for a very special type of person now, that is a programmer with vision, leadership skills, and that actually enjoys being around young adults.

I could see this working with small groups: 5 to 10 highly motivated students that already know the basics of programming hacking together apps with the help of a mentor. For those who don't know how to program yet, maybe work with the local colleges to open up programming courses similar to Vocational programs or Post Secondary Education Opportunities to learn the basics and earn college credit while still in high school.
>only a couple have

Sounds close to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle thus far.
The creator of a programming language that's used on a large percentage of the web. How dare they?
Yes, being annoyed by unethical people is a mental condition.
Steve Jobs was not a "hacker". [‡] He knew almost nothing about computer languages, computer architecture, and according to Neil Young, he listened to vinyl records at home [1] — which shows that he was ignorant of how audio quality works (see [2]). Steve did not contribute any original ideas or any important technological innovations. He claimed during his Stanford commencement speech that if Macintosh had not included eye pleasing typography, then computers would never have had typographically pleasing typefaces (because "Microsoft just copied Apple); this is ludicrous. In fact, Apple's software patents for digital typography added unnecessary difficulties. [3] Many people are unhappy about Apple culture of paranoia, litigation, and features that restrict user's freedoms that Steve created.

Steve is known for having a great sense of design, but it seems that he only had taste in choosing among the good designs of others. Just look at the yacht he designed without Jonathan Ive's collaboration. [4]

Many of you may say that I'm missing the point; that his ability to convince others of what was important and his "vision" is what made him great. My contention is that he appropriated other people's original ideas, and other people implemented his modifications. I'll admit that directing such efforts is not an easy thing to do, and most breakthroughs are improvements upon others' ideas. But it is very rare for the original creators to be alive and ignored while the modifier is celebrated with maudlin elegies.

EDIT: The media's treatment of his death, President Obama's statement that he was a great "inventor", etc. was not his fault. But I think that when the deaths of people like Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy in the same month as Steve are ignored, then the world is suffering from a serious case of myopia. Ignoring Dennis and John while celebrating Steve is like fawning over the interior decorator with praise about the warmth of a house while ignoring the carpenter and contractor.

Perhaps I should add that I am being critical of Steve because of an abundance of articles that did not focus on what he actually contributed, or criticized only his behavior towards others. Steve did seem to be able to hire, attract, or motivate as many talented engineers as he did drive away. This is a very hard thing for a CEO to do, and he deserves a large amount of credit for doing this. The talent that he helped attract and the products they create are responsible for Apple's stock price rise and continued profitability since his death.

[‡] http://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html
(see definition of "hacker")

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/02/01/146206585/ste...

[2] http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

[3] http://www.freetype.org/patents.html

[4] http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/21/tech/innovation/steve-jobs-yac...
I have no idea who this guys is, but I remember hearing about this a week ago. Someone even put this up with all the details:
http://www.diablowned.com/
Does anyone have an ungated copy of the paper?
No problem: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5764687/CLOSURE.pdf
Does anyone have a nice implementation of the Maybe Monad for C++ ?
Just put up a flyer site: https://smore.com/a199
If it was a culture issue it would extend to the successful product teams as well. Those failures point to the people in charge of those groups, not the Apple culture.

Unless by Apple culture we mean giving people lots of responsibility and autonomy.. then, yes. But that's also the key to their successes.
Seems to work pretty well in countries that don't have different scout organizations for boys and girls.
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I do not see the distinction you drew between daycare and a car service. Why is one superfluous and the other not? Why does nothing bad happen if you cut the private plane, but something bad happens if you cut the nursery? I hardly think finding daycare for your child is a "bad" thing. At least not any worse than needing to take the time to drive yourself to work in a personal vehicle you pay to maintain.
someone with free time, and will and/or passion or interest for languages please translate it to other popular languages please
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Why does it matter so much? There are tons of articles on the front page of HN from no-names.
Don't confuse missing the point of the article with not caring about the rest of the article.

I had a chuckle too about "malicious". A DDoS attack is a DDoS attack. It's like hearing about a "malicious stabbing."

But whatever, there are DDoS attacks every day on someone.
Cutting line to get food when you are the CEO and have a lot of stuff to get done is not too bad. Impolite, but not too bad. Think about all the perks that CEOs have.

Good managements have weak links. You can either gather the courage to get your message to people who have the strength to listen to you and act on it, or you can keep cursing your boss and stick to you job.

If the author would have gathered the courage to get her message (discretely) to a higher-up, she would have been not been remembering that mess-up. She might have either prevented it, or been fired.
Good read ;)
I don't think there's a set-and-forget model solution.

But that's not what the US Constitution is, either. It was a legal framework and social contract that set up an elaborate system of checks and balances to prevent psychopaths from amassing too much political power. The democracy still running on that framework is a living, evolving thing, that has struggled to adapt with changing times, but it's done a pretty good job of keeping the psychos out of supreme ruling power (or at least keeping any one particular psycho from holding onto it very long) since 1787.

Meanwhile in the corporate world, we don't have that. Most private organizations are not even remotely democratic in nature. I think that's the core essence of what needs to change. And I think that's sort of what you're getting at by advocating open allocation and profit sharing.

Either that, or we need to at least strengthen the welfare state enough to decouple employment from basic livelihood, so that business failure doesn't impose the risk of homelessness/starvation, and most people aren't compelled to become MacLeod Losers, selling all their economic upside risk off in exchange for stable shelter, food, and medical care.
What happens when your startup gets debunked by science?