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Stephen Wolfram reflects back on Steve Jobs
You may not have heard of Stephen Wolfram but rest assured that he’s a brilliant guy. Born in Britain to Jewish refugees, Wolfram is the man behind Mathematica, A New Kind of Science and, more recently, Wolfram Alpha. Not too long ago Wofram penned a truly informative look back at his relationship with Steve Jobs, […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs stands up for gay rights at NeXT
Monday, October 10, 2011
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So many Steve Jobs stories it’s literally impossible to keep up with the stream. This one, however, deserves special mention. Ronald Hayden details his first experience with Steve Jobs when he was hired on as a manager at NeXT. The following is excerpted from Hayden’s public Google+ profile. “When I was a child, I had […]
Continue reading...The NeXT/Apple engineering culture clash
Friday, March 25, 2011
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David Casseres writes the following in the wake of Bertrand Serlet leaving Apple: Pretty soon he was standing up in front of seasoned Apple software engineers and lecturing us on how not to make mistakes when cutting and pasting code. I said at that time that I had never felt so thoroughly disrespected as an engineer […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs and the original spinning beach ball of death [Photo]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
There’s nothing more frustrating to a Mac OS X user than the dreaded spinning Beach Ball of death. Steve Jobs, though, doesn’t seem to mind at all. Pictured above is a young Jobs kicking around a Beach Ball at a 1987 NeXT company retreat. The spinning beach ball of death, which is technically referred to […]
Continue reading...A little bit of NeXt history fused into OS X
Sunday, August 9, 2009
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Check out this little bit of NeXt history fused into OS X. To take a snapshot of your entire computer screen, Mac users can press command-shift-3. And if users want to select a specific part of the screen to take a picture of, they can press command-shift-4. But, if you happen to be a fan […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on the meaning and importance of Computers [Video]
Saturday, July 18, 2009
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This is an old but timeless clip of a young Steve Jobs, who was then the CEO of NeXT, talking about how computing is a “bicycle for our minds.”
Continue reading...Steve Jobs unfiltered via his 2008 deposition
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
TechCrunch has an interesting look at Steve Jobs’ deposition testimony which was taken during the SEC’s 2008 investigation into alleged options backdating. It’s well worth a read, and provides some interesting insight into Jobs’ thoughts on a variety of matters, from his failure to find an adequate CEO for Apple in 1997 to his thoughts […]
Continue reading...Unboxing a ‘NeXT Cube’
Friday, December 19, 2008
Check out this video of an unboxing of an original NeXT Cube. Computer packaging sure has come a long way! The NeXT Cube was a beast of a machine in terms of processing power, but its high price tag is what ultimately did it in. via GrowSmartBlog
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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