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Steve Jobs has passed away: Condolences Thread
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Bnice
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I just saw this too. Sad indeed.
A sad day indeed. He really was amazing at what he did and did a lot.
2003vstrom
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I`m not a apple fan, But rest in Peace Steve
That is sad news.
(Reuters) Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer issues.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dead at 56 | Reuters
(Reuters) Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer issues.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dead at 56 | Reuters
I thought it was a cruel joke when someone just told me but wow, that is sad.
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I remembered this story because it gives some insight at the kind of attention to detail he had:
Bill Atkinson worked mostly at home, but whenever he made significant progress he rushed in to Apple to show it off to anyone who would appreciate it. This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Texaco Towers to show off his brand new oval routines, which were implemented using a really clever algorithm.
Bill had added new code to QuickDraw (which was still called LisaGraf at this point) to draw circles and ovals very quickly. That was a bit hard to do on the Macintosh, since the math for circles usually involved taking square roots, and the 68000 processor in the Lisa and Macintosh didn't support floating point operations. But Bill had come up with a clever way to do the circle calculation that only used addition and subtraction, not even multiplication or division, which the 68000 could do, but was kind of slow at.
Bill's technique used the fact the sum of a sequence of odd numbers is always the next perfect square (For example, 1 + 3 = 4, 1 + 3 + 5 = 9, 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 16, etc). So he could figure out when to bump the dependent coordinate value by iterating in a loop until a threshold was exceeded. This allowed QuickDraw to draw ovals very quickly.
Bill fired up his demo and it quickly filled the Lisa screen with randomly-sized ovals, faster than you thought was possible. But something was bothering Steve Jobs. "Well, circles and ovals are good, but how about drawing rectangles with rounded corners? Can we do that now, too?"
"No, there's no way to do that. In fact it would be really hard to do, and I don't think we really need it". I think Bill was a little miffed that Steve wasn't raving over the fast ovals and still wanted more.
Steve suddenly got more intense. "Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look around this room!". And sure enough, there were lots of them, like the whiteboard and some of the desks and tables. Then he pointed out the window. "And look outside, there's even more, practically everywhere you look!". He even persuaded Bill to take a quick walk around the block with him, pointing out every rectangle with rounded corners that he could find.
When Steve and Bill passed a no-parking sign with rounded corners, it did the trick. "OK, I give up", Bill pleaded. "I'll see if it's as hard as I thought." He went back home to work on it.
Bill returned to Texaco Towers the following afternoon, with a big smile on his face. His demo was now drawing rectangles with beautifully rounded corners blisteringly fast, almost at the speed of plain rectangles. When he added the code to LisaGraf, he named the new primitive "RoundRects". Over the next few months, roundrects worked their way into various parts of the user interface, and soon became indispensable.
Bill Atkinson worked mostly at home, but whenever he made significant progress he rushed in to Apple to show it off to anyone who would appreciate it. This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Texaco Towers to show off his brand new oval routines, which were implemented using a really clever algorithm.
Bill had added new code to QuickDraw (which was still called LisaGraf at this point) to draw circles and ovals very quickly. That was a bit hard to do on the Macintosh, since the math for circles usually involved taking square roots, and the 68000 processor in the Lisa and Macintosh didn't support floating point operations. But Bill had come up with a clever way to do the circle calculation that only used addition and subtraction, not even multiplication or division, which the 68000 could do, but was kind of slow at.
Bill's technique used the fact the sum of a sequence of odd numbers is always the next perfect square (For example, 1 + 3 = 4, 1 + 3 + 5 = 9, 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 16, etc). So he could figure out when to bump the dependent coordinate value by iterating in a loop until a threshold was exceeded. This allowed QuickDraw to draw ovals very quickly.
Bill fired up his demo and it quickly filled the Lisa screen with randomly-sized ovals, faster than you thought was possible. But something was bothering Steve Jobs. "Well, circles and ovals are good, but how about drawing rectangles with rounded corners? Can we do that now, too?"
"No, there's no way to do that. In fact it would be really hard to do, and I don't think we really need it". I think Bill was a little miffed that Steve wasn't raving over the fast ovals and still wanted more.
Steve suddenly got more intense. "Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look around this room!". And sure enough, there were lots of them, like the whiteboard and some of the desks and tables. Then he pointed out the window. "And look outside, there's even more, practically everywhere you look!". He even persuaded Bill to take a quick walk around the block with him, pointing out every rectangle with rounded corners that he could find.
When Steve and Bill passed a no-parking sign with rounded corners, it did the trick. "OK, I give up", Bill pleaded. "I'll see if it's as hard as I thought." He went back home to work on it.
Bill returned to Texaco Towers the following afternoon, with a big smile on his face. His demo was now drawing rectangles with beautifully rounded corners blisteringly fast, almost at the speed of plain rectangles. When he added the code to LisaGraf, he named the new primitive "RoundRects". Over the next few months, roundrects worked their way into various parts of the user interface, and soon became indispensable.
An era ends. RIP Steve
Vihzel
Destroying Balls Everyday
R.I.P. Steve Jobs
Thank you for all of your contributions to not just the tech industry, but so many other industries around the world. Thank you for being one of the greatest visionaries the mobile industry has ever seen with the introduction of the iPhone, which was truly a revolutionary device in its time only 5 years ago. Thank you for bringing modern, minimalist designs to all of your products that help set it apart from its competitors and push competitors to work harder in their designs.
I am genuinely so sad and actually teared up because I know what it's like to lose someone after a very long battle with cancer. I feel for his family. :'(
Thank you for all of your contributions to not just the tech industry, but so many other industries around the world. Thank you for being one of the greatest visionaries the mobile industry has ever seen with the introduction of the iPhone, which was truly a revolutionary device in its time only 5 years ago. Thank you for bringing modern, minimalist designs to all of your products that help set it apart from its competitors and push competitors to work harder in their designs.
I am genuinely so sad and actually teared up because I know what it's like to lose someone after a very long battle with cancer. I feel for his family. :'(
This surprised me.
Steve Jobs: Ex-Apple CEO Dies - ABC News
Steve Jobs: Ex-Apple CEO Dies - ABC News
Granite1
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Folks, I just read this evening that Steve Jobs died.
I know a lot of people here and elsewhere have shown less than love for the founder of Apple inc. but he was a revolutionary genius. I own an ipod touch, it rocks!
The point I'm trying to make here is, a fellow member of the tech / software community at large has passed and we should show the respect that's due. Even if we don't agree with the way he distributed his software and controlled it, you've got to admit, the stuff he endorsed and put out just works. Flawlessly.
Just think if he would have put his drive and attention to every last detail into a custom android rom, it would be EPIC!
I'm here to let everyone know it's sad Mr. Jobs passed away, and he will be missed.
Like it or not.
I know a lot of people here and elsewhere have shown less than love for the founder of Apple inc. but he was a revolutionary genius. I own an ipod touch, it rocks!
The point I'm trying to make here is, a fellow member of the tech / software community at large has passed and we should show the respect that's due. Even if we don't agree with the way he distributed his software and controlled it, you've got to admit, the stuff he endorsed and put out just works. Flawlessly.
Just think if he would have put his drive and attention to every last detail into a custom android rom, it would be EPIC!
I'm here to let everyone know it's sad Mr. Jobs passed away, and he will be missed.
Like it or not.
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