Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation on 1980 (Insanely Great)

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Strong rec mratzloff · 2014-01 · on “Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Since 1984 [video]”

The thing that amazes me about Jobs is how he could present in such a way that it seemed so off-the-cuff and at the same time so polished. Anyone who has had to do presentations like these can learn a lot from watching him at work. In the NeXT video, for example, he's very good at tying everything together into a cohesive whole, and speaking to his audience in terms they'll understand. He uses practically no filler words ("uh", "um", "basically", etc.). Here's another presentation he did in 1980 that shows he had these skills almost from the very beginning: [this video]

Cites thezilch · 2012-01 · on “Mozilla Questions Web Orthodoxies With ‘Pancake’”

What makes you think people understand URI bars? Often times they become fairly unintelligible as the number of resources go up. Even if we slugify titles into the URI, there are almost always other path hierarchies and parameters to handle paging, sorting states, or otherwise. The user has already clicked through, he can easily see the title in the tab; the rest of the URI is probably meaningless or not worth understanding for the 99%. 99% of the time, it is probably even a waste for the other 1%; it's not that URIs are going away. I'm not even sure what you mean by a "Web 3.0" revolution. The following is the future? * Youtube link off my Youtube homepage: [this video] * Twitter status link: [L

Cites hyperpallium · 2018-11 · on “Ask HN: As a programmer, how do you know if you're a good one or not?”

"Am I an affective programmer?" Does my code make people feel good? Does it automate some user task? Does it make some user task easier? Does it amplify users' powers? Does it create value, by my definition of "valuable"? Of course, these are outcomes/benefits, not the technical role of programming within an organization. But apt if you see yourself, fellow programmers and company members as "users" also. > I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown o

Cites tdeck · 2021-02 · on “Email from Jeff Bezos to employees”

I just ran across this talk where Jobs basically makes that claim: [this video] He says it was also because he liked apples, and it was ahead of Atari in the phone book.

Cites samokhvalov · 2021-12 · on “Optimizing Postgres queries at scale”

This is great that you can do that. An experimental environment must be of the same size. Ideally, absolutely the same physically, to keep the same physical layout as on prod – bloat, etc – though, sometimes it's not allowed. Another problem here is that for each experiment, you might need a new environment. Plus, in larger teams, many people might want to do this work at the same time – so you end up combining efforts, synchronizing them, sharing environments. It slows you down. Or increases your cloud spending a lot. This is a kind of problem Steve Jobs described in his famous 1980 speech [1] about Apple: if we give each person their own computer, something special happens compared to the

Cites iancmceachern · 2026-05 · on “I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit”

It reminds me of this Steve Jobs Clip: [this video] He said, so many years ago, that there will become a time where computing power is so prevalent that we will stop using the person to make the computers job easier and start using the computer to make the humans job of interfacing with it easier. But in this context, it would mean the other side of increase productivity is decreased time to do the same work. These are the same thing.