Screenshot of the front page of Hacker News the day Steve Jobs died: https://i.imgur.com/yheyTOh.png
Thanks for sharing this.
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#182Nice to see some acknowledgment of NeXT in the video. Often Apple stuff pretends that era never happened.
I was watching a WWDC session the other day and it mentioned that "TextKit 1 first appeared on the system in OpenStep" https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021-10061/?time... . It's a shame how little historical material there is on NeXT.
Working on it, hopefully.
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#183I think that Apple suffers from not having that person at the top with taste who was willing to say “this is shit”. The overall software quality has dropped markedly at Apple and the hardware more uneven since he left. There were misses under Steve like the Cube where there wasn’t a market. But the product was great. Now there is a market but the product is middling like the Watch. Yes the watch was started when he w…
Steve quotes in the video "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been" which is of course a Wayne Gretsky quote, and I think it captures this sentiment very well. Moving from leader to follower is such a classic move for an incumbent like Apple, and with Steve they never seemed to lose that insurgent mindset, even when they were absolutely enormous. They've steadily stagnated and truly lost that…
Did you know Steve Jobs personally?
I'm stupefied as to how someone who didn't know him socially can miss a CEO of a giant faceless corporation, especially one known to be such a monumental asshole.
I mean his company made consumer products. It's like saying you miss the former CEO of Braun.
I honestly don't get it.
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#184I think Apple would be an even more interesting company if he were still around. Maybe not as big or as profitable, but certainly more interesting. I wish he hadn't been so strongheaded about herbal remedies and whatnot. He had the more curable kind of cancer, had he taken it seriously earlier. As someone who has lost family to pancreatic cancer, it really upset me to learn that he didn't use his vast resources to do…
At the very least, it would have been a lot more interesting to see Steve Jobs in those Senate hearings.
You mean Steve Apple?
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're going to have to explain what the Manhattan Project had to do with victory in Europe. And after that, please explain why Feynman's contributions to it were so critical. Finally, I'd like to ask for an explanation as to how Feynman's actions starting in 1949 could have had a causal effect on a war that ended in 1945.
> Finally, I'd like to ask for an explanation as to how Feynman's actions starting in 1949 could have had a causal effect on a war that ended in 1945. That's exactly what I mean, thank you! You have stressed the whole point! Society feels comfortable in canceling people because these people already gave their contribution and for sure the person being canceled can't retroactively destroy all their contributions. If t…
> if it also meant the complete disappearence of:
I don't think he had anything to do with the script abd photography of these movies. Maybe too much with casting teenage actresses, but the movies would have been "managed" (rent-seek) by some other production companies, don't worry.
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Dennis Ritchie's book on C is pretty well required reading for anyone going through a computer science program no?
I suspect there are CS programs that don’t even teach C at this point.
The ones that matter do.
If a CS/Engineering program doesn't have an OS class with non-trivial labs in C, it's simply not serious and a red flag on a resume.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect there are CS programs that don’t even teach C at this point.
The ones that matter do. If a CS/Engineering program doesn't have an OS class with non-trivial labs in C, it's simply not serious and a red flag on a resume.
I looked over the degree requirements for an MIT 6-3 (Comp Sci part of EECS) degree and it looks to me like you can get one without taking a course in C. Maybe MIT EECS "doesn't matter", but I doubt that.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ones that matter do. If a CS/Engineering program doesn't have an OS class with non-trivial labs in C, it's simply not serious and a red flag on a resume.
I looked over the degree requirements for an MIT 6-3 (Comp Sci part of EECS) degree and it looks to me like you can get one without taking a course in C. Maybe MIT EECS "doesn't matter", but I doubt that.
Peeking at the course required[0], it's hard to avoid microcontrollers.
Furthermore, 6.004[1] looks like it has to involve C at some point.
[0] http://catalog.mit.edu/degree-charts/computer-science-engine...
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What? There's a toggle to hide episodes you've already listened to. If you have that turned on, it only shows you episodes you haven't listened to yet.
Only on the Latest Episodes page, which doesn’t allow you to group by show. The Downloaded page lets you hide played episodes, but doesn’t hide them for 24 hours (why??). The Shows page … that’s all messed up. You can hide played episodes, but it randomly displays episodes from years past with no possible way to mark them played without first downloading it and then marking it played.
I don't understand. The Shows page lets me hide played episodes and mark individual episodes as played without downloading them. You can click the "..." or long press on any episode in the Shows page to mark it as played.
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#190Never forget: Steve was a sociopath.