Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
As a comparison to iTunes>iPod, consider Sony’s MiniDisc player.
Not to mention Sony used its own proprietary format. It helped that Apple used a generic format invented by a couple of guys in Germany.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Has anyone read Job’s commencement address that may explain a few things?
It's definitive.
Steve Jobs: The godfather of fonts as we know them includes some comment from his calligraphy instructor at Reed.
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Sacha, in reply to
I have a feeling Adobe and others influential in digital typography may have other views to offer.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
. . . Adobe and others influential in digital typography may have other views to offer.
It was during the Scully era that Apple & Microsoft rather frantically struck a deal to make Microsoft's Truetype the cross-platform standard at OS level. Anything to prevent Adobe becoming another Microsoft via Postscript.
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This is an enjoyable read. Many quotable quotes including...
and a "mouse" (a small rolling box with a button on it)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/43945579/Playboy-Interview-With-Steve-Jobs
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I see that Dennis Ritchie died today. If we are to liken Jobs to Napoleon, then Ritchie and his partner Brian Kernighan’s impact on computing could be compared to that of Mikhail Kalashnikov on modern warfare. 99% of the technology that enables me to post this and you to read it is depending on code written in C and computers running Unix. It is hard to imagine the modern computing landscape being recognizable without them.
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Martin Lindberg, in reply to
99% of the technology that enables me to post this and you to read it is depending on code written in C and computers running Unix.
True dat. Dennis, I take back everything bad I ever said about C and Unix. As I read somewhere (C programmer's tribute):
His pointer has been cast to void *
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James Butler, in reply to
His pointer has been cast to void *
His process has terminated with status 0
(ETA although depending on what you believe it has not terminated, but now executes in kernel mode)His malloc() has been free()d
He has fallen through in the case of life
His index is out of bounds
He has longjmp()d from this stack frame
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I see that Dennis Ritchie died today. If we are to liken Jobs to Napoleon, then Ritchie and his partner Brian Kernighan’s impact on computing could be compared to that of Mikhail Kalashnikov on modern warfare.
Quite. And Bell Labs -- what a place.
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Martin Lindberg, in reply to
He was warned not to use strcpy(). Now see what happened! Remember kids, stay safe - use memcpy()
I think I will honour him by rewriting some stuff at work in old-school C. Java can bite me - pft!
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New Zealand isn't on this planet!
I just heard on TV1 news that the new iPhone 4s may be released in NZ before Christmas dependent on Apple meeting global demand !!?
Best get one of them satellite phones then... -
There's a big Vodafone poster advertising the "new" iPhone 4 by my office. You'd have thought they'd be embarassed, but no.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I think I will honour him by rewriting some stuff at work in old-school C. Java can bite me – pft!
You're a wild man!
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/* Life */
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kiwicmc, in reply to
and the author of my favourite comment:
/* you are not expected to understand this */
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Stephen Judd, in reply to
I spent a long time with the Lions book trying to figure that one out.
It's such an odd comment too. Much of the rest of the code in V6 Unix is commented sensibly and explains what's happening. But in that one place that's so crucial and so mysterious, you're told you're on your own.
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kiwicmc, in reply to
The man himself explains all
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/odd.html
which to me took a little of the fun out of it
Was your Lions book a badly photocopied pile of paper? I just googled it it case my memory was failing and there really was a nicely printed version. Turns out Lions was an Aussie!
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No, mine was a legit reprint published years after. Still a good read then. And a lot easier to understand than the Linux kernel.
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