That penultimate paragraph is certainly a change in tune from Vic's I/O keynote last year... ;)
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#12That penultimate paragraph is certainly a change in tune from Vic's I/O keynote last year... ;)
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#13Because it's Steve Jobs, this is a great anecdote. I'm sure we'll hear dozens of them in the next couple days and weeks, all examples of Jobs' attention to detail and design resulting in superior products and software. Yet imagine your boss calling you on a Sunday and saying, "So I was reviewing the DBA's data model for the new product, and I really don't like how he's called the columns with customers identifiers 'c…
I think attention to detail in terms of a column name is different than attention to visual design and look and feel of a product.
Nope, it's just as important. "Good design is thorough through the details" and that permeates all the way from visual design to code to database. This is actually what makes Jobs different: he knows every little detail matters, anywhere, and that it's just not a gimmick. This is what it takes to have a robust, elegant, awesome and enjoyable product.
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#14Because it's Steve Jobs, this is a great anecdote. I'm sure we'll hear dozens of them in the next couple days and weeks, all examples of Jobs' attention to detail and design resulting in superior products and software. Yet imagine your boss calling you on a Sunday and saying, "So I was reviewing the DBA's data model for the new product, and I really don't like how he's called the columns with customers identifiers 'c…
I think that's what in part makes him Steve Jobs. If anyone else asked you to do it you'd think they were insane. But if Steve Jobs asks you to do it, you not only get on it right away, you also feel like the fate of the entire world rests on your ability to change the color in the icon to the right shade of yellow.
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#15This doesn't ring true to me.
google plus has been known to terminate pseudonym accounts, so unless someone hacked into it, it seems to be genuine. a guy like vic is probably well connected, too, so it's quite plausible imho.
Not only have they been terminating accounts that don't use the owner's real name, they've started a "verified accounts" program, and the linked account has been verified.
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#16Because it's Steve Jobs, this is a great anecdote. I'm sure we'll hear dozens of them in the next couple days and weeks, all examples of Jobs' attention to detail and design resulting in superior products and software. Yet imagine your boss calling you on a Sunday and saying, "So I was reviewing the DBA's data model for the new product, and I really don't like how he's called the columns with customers identifiers 'c…
I think attention to detail in terms of a column name is different than attention to visual design and look and feel of a product.
The assorted people who came before me and somehow exuded what became the main database where I work did not pay attention to column names.
It is infinitely annoying when I'm writing SQL to have to stop and check to see if the account ID is "account_id", "acid", "Account_ID", or "acct_id".
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#17Because it's Steve Jobs, this is a great anecdote. I'm sure we'll hear dozens of them in the next couple days and weeks, all examples of Jobs' attention to detail and design resulting in superior products and software. Yet imagine your boss calling you on a Sunday and saying, "So I was reviewing the DBA's data model for the new product, and I really don't like how he's called the columns with customers identifiers 'c…
I think that's what in part makes him Steve Jobs. If anyone else asked you to do it you'd think they were insane. But if Steve Jobs asks you to do it, you not only get on it right away, you also feel like the fate of the entire world rests on your ability to change the color in the icon to the right shade of yellow.
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#18Because it's Steve Jobs, this is a great anecdote. I'm sure we'll hear dozens of them in the next couple days and weeks, all examples of Jobs' attention to detail and design resulting in superior products and software. Yet imagine your boss calling you on a Sunday and saying, "So I was reviewing the DBA's data model for the new product, and I really don't like how he's called the columns with customers identifiers 'c…
I think the difference is that he earns the right to make a fuss over stuff like that by setting the standard of excellence in his own work and consistently requiring it of everyone around him.
Whereas most other bosses that might make a similar request would seem capricious for nitpicking over one issue while ignoring a bunch of (probably more important) issues.
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#19That penultimate paragraph is certainly a change in tune from Vic's I/O keynote last year... ;)
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
google plus has been known to terminate pseudonym accounts, so unless someone hacked into it, it seems to be genuine. a guy like vic is probably well connected, too, so it's quite plausible imho.
Not only have they been terminating accounts that don't use the owner's real name, they've started a "verified accounts" program, and the linked account has been verified.
The linked account also has 100k "followers" as well. I doubt a fake Vic account could amass that many considering there aren't that many on G+ yet. So the only other possibilities is that Vic is lying, or someone hacked into Vic's account, neither of which I think are true.