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R.I.P. Steve Jobs

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    Greyt video of Jobs, no matter if you liked his products or not, you have to love the thought process of life he had...


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    extremely poignant... he was such a genius. RIP Steve Jobs.

    "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away." ~ Steve Jobs

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    Loved these.



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    Second one is very good!

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    No offense to anyone, and I hate to speak ill of the dead, but a serious oversight has taken place.

    On October 12, 2011, a man by the name of Dennis Ritchie was found dead in his home. Why should you care? Dennis Ritchie created the C Programming language, the programming language that most other programming languages take their cues from... that most, if not all, operating systems and a wide variety of games and other software are coded in. He was also the co-creator of UNIX, the operating system that was the bare bones blueprint for just about every other operating system on this planet, including Windows and the Mac OS. He was co-author of The C Programming Language, considered the bible of computer programming. If Dennis Ritchie had never existed, most of what everyone on this Earth takes for granted wouldn't exist in the form it does today, including Apple and Microsoft products, including Java and every other over hyped computer product.

    Where as Steve Jobs was a master salesman, and yes, he did have an impact on the world, Dennis Ritchie was the master that laid the groundwork for it all. While the world was mourning Steve Jobs in every headline for weeks on end, Dr. Ritchie, an actual innovator that changed the face of computer science, a task Steve Jobs could never have done, was relegated to a small blurb that no one saw or cared about. And I think that's a terrible travesty.

    R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie. I hope the world you're going to appreciates you more than the world you left.

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    NOW that digital devices are fashion items, it is easy to forget what really accounts for their near-magical properties. Without the operating systems which tell their different physical bits what to do, and without the languages in which these commands are couched, the latest iSomething would be a pretty but empty receptacle. The gizmos of the digital age owe a part of their numeric souls to Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy
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    C fundamentally changed the way computer programs were written. For the first time it enabled the same programs to work, without too much tweaking, on different machines; before, they had to be tailored to particular models. Much of modern software is written using one of C’s more evolved dialects. These include objective C (which Apple favours), C# (espoused by rival Microsoft) and Java (the choice for a host of internet applications). Mr Ritchie and his life-long collaborator, Ken Thompson, then used C to write UNIX, an operating system whose powerful simplicity endeared it to the operators of the minicomputers which were starting to proliferate in universities and companies in the 1970s. Nowadays its iterations undergird the entire internet and breathe life into most mobile devices, whether based on Google’s Android or Apple’s iOS.
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    IMO only two jobs are available in this world...sales, and those that service sales.

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    RIP ...he was a brilliant man....


    and on a positive note we also have alot less bush, around now

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