col_kurtz · HackerTrans

16 lat temudiscuss

In hindsight one could say a 28 year old Jobs could have handled CEO after what we've seen him do in the last decade. It seems more likely however, that the lessons he learned in the 90s at NeXT were essential, not to mention the engineers and codebase used later in OSX. Sculley's humility is admirable, but maybe Jobs really wasn't ready.

col_kurtz

16 lat temudiscuss

Yeah then why do most existing Flash animations developed for desktop run choppy on mobile? And if we have to rewrite anyway, why not use canvas/HTML5?

A rigged bouncing ball. Not to mention multiple swfs on the same page. Try a real world example, Adobe.

col_kurtz

16 lat temudiscuss

This part is excellent:

You don’t understand "ordinary people." To you they are "stupid fools" - so you will not tolerate them or treat their foibles with tolerance or patience - but will drive yourself wild (or they will drive you wild) trying to deal with them in an effective way.

It seems like Feynman is carving a broader archetype here as well.

So often in intellectual circles, programming/tech forums & comments this happens, where you are talked down to simply because somebody feels intellectually superior by birth or right, usually discounting other forms of intelligence but their own.

How many times have you seen comments prefaced by "I know this is a stupid question, but", "I am new to so and so technology, so", "Understand that this is not my area of expertise, and"?

All roughly translated to "Please don't rip me a new one because I might not know what you do" (though probably get out more).

col_kurtz

16 lat temudiscuss

Because staying on point isn't a civil rights issue, jackass. This is why most blogs aren't considered real journalism and require, as Jobs said this week, "oversight" to be considered fully legit.

If Walt Mossberg suddenly digressed into his favorite movie or what he likes for dinner while he's reviewing a product, I would call that unprofessional.

So what it means is people like Gruber are pseudo-professional journalists who are mixing amateurish diary entries about their personal life and topics they don't know about along with the commentary that actually brought them alot of hits in the first place.

And don't even get started about "free". Because it's not subscription but he gets paid thousands through advertising, but I'm not "paying for it"? Just like more legit journalists do. And if something's free I can't complain I suppose...

case closed.

col_kurtz

16 lat temudiscuss

Gruber continually comments about topics unrelated to why people are reading his blog. It's like, great dude, you like Stanley Kubrick. Great dude, you're a liberal. Great dude, you like baseball. No one gives a fuck! Write about apple and tech. DF is too popular to digress and distract into a personal blog like it still has only a few thousand hits a day.