> "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.". This was plainly an exercise in ridicule by Jobs.
Errr, actually it's all the competitors that make the ignoring and ridiculing and the fighting.
Remember how the original iPod was "lame"? How the iPhone could never succeed? How the iPad is doomed? How Apple is "doing it wrong"?
If Jobs is "ridiculing", he is doing it (wisely) AFTER he wins.
Oh, and Apple is rarely driven by any "fighting"...
They put out the stuff that they want to put out, not X-killers and Y-killers.
It's always the competitors that are occupied with making an "iPod killer", "iPhone killer", "iPad killer", all these markets that Apple FIRST opened wide open, one after the other...
> "First dual core tablet to ship in volume." That's funny, I tested a Dell (DELL) Streak 7, which had a dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 chip in January. They've been shipping ever since on T-Mobile. In volume.
Yeah, in such "volume" that you have more chances of winning the lottery than seeing one in the wild. Dell Streak 7? Whatever, dude...
> In fact, one thing I have noticed is that the people who I consider to be good software developers barely ever apply for jobs at all.
And if they did they sure wouldn't apply for a company that makes a shitty web publishing app and a mediocre bug tracking system, uses a monstrosity of a custom-built language that spits PHP and VBScript, and is run by the man responsible (and wanted) for the creation of Visual Basic for Applications and a god-awful UI design book.
Joel has written some good essays, I give him that. There is nothing on his other endeavors though to make me think it worthy to listen to his hiring advice...
Here the audience is mostly aspiring "entrepreneurs" dreaming of making it big, so they are tied to the rat race and take all the "american dream" BS to heart.
Apart from a statistical insignificant minority that will "make it", the majority can always come back to it in 10-20 years, when they are bitter and wised enough.
Yes. Same for murder laws. If they were reasonable, if they allowed, say, to kill your unfaithful spouse or cheating business partner, people would not find it acceptable to break them.
> Also, if they didn't render a result as an image, maybe it wouldn't take so freaking long...
Parent got upvotes? Isn't HN is supposedly populated by technical people?
Rendering the result as an image is trivial and fast in a modern server.
I very seriously doubt this is the problem, instead of doing all the symbolic mathematical calculations in the first place...
And, of course, the reason to render the result as an image is to have a consistent cross-(legacy)browser support for mathematical notation. Wikipedia renders mathematical formulas as embedded images too. No other solution (from MathML to Flash/Canvas etc renderers) is as widely supported (and none is as complete as Mathematica's math rendering engine).
> Why does everybody care that the GIMP doesn't have CYMK support? The vast majority of printing presses can do their own color separation, trapping, and registering automatically.
Yes, so why use a CMYK workflow, when you can wait until your design gets to the printing press and have the thrill of seeing if it prints as you want it to...
>Laugh if you will, but I've found sketching out mockups in PowerPoint to work surprisingly well and about as fast (or faster) than paper since I don't have to redraw the whole thing after too many changes are made.
Yes, it can work.
And this is the premise behind Keynote Wireframe Toolkit (Keynote is Apple's equivalent to Powerpoint):
Errr, actually it's all the competitors that make the ignoring and ridiculing and the fighting.
Remember how the original iPod was "lame"? How the iPhone could never succeed? How the iPad is doomed? How Apple is "doing it wrong"?
If Jobs is "ridiculing", he is doing it (wisely) AFTER he wins.
Oh, and Apple is rarely driven by any "fighting"...
They put out the stuff that they want to put out, not X-killers and Y-killers.
It's always the competitors that are occupied with making an "iPod killer", "iPhone killer", "iPad killer", all these markets that Apple FIRST opened wide open, one after the other...