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I wish Steve had promised to fix the bug at some point in the future at least.

by dinedal 16y ago

mcritz 16y ago
Steve is so hands-on that I wish he’d fix it personally. Maybe he’d redefine keyboard modal view class to inherit the proper UIKit methods.
- gcheong 16y ago
  I often wonder why nobody ever asks Steve if he codes when he does an interview. Maybe I should e-mail him.
  - steveklabnik 16y ago
    Isn't it fairly well known that Steve used to code, but hasn't since like the 80s? He dabbled with it, but decided that it wasn't his strong point? Or am I just making that up entirely? Sounds like something buried in folklore.org somewhere...
    - nikcub 16y ago
      He has a very good dev understanding, it is more about being more useful and efficient directing the company rather than writing code. Steve made most of the major design decisions in OS X, for eg. and is a lot like billg at msft
    - gcheong 16y ago
      That is certainly the impression I have. I wouldn't expect him to be writing production code anymore but I do wonder if he hacks on anything personally or if any of his kids do.
    - philwelch 16y ago
      I think his technical involvement with Apple started and ended in the 70's, when he helped assemble the Apple I boards that Woz designed. I don't know if he's ever coded. I found a video once of him demonstrating NextSTEP, but it stops right before he's about to demonstrate the programming environment, so I don't know if he even demoed that part or got someone who could code to do it. What he has done personally is some of the design; he's listed on the design patents for the glass staircase at one of the main Apple stores, and personally designed one of the glass cubes.
    - oofoe 16y ago
      Well, he did say that he'd read all of Knuth's books... (See http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Close_Encounters_of_the_Steve_Kind.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=knuth http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...)

I wish Steve had promised to fix the bug at some point in the future at least.

by dinedal 16y ago

I wish Steve had promised to fix the bug at some point in the future at least.

Steve is so hands-on that I wish he’d fix it personally. Maybe he’d redefine keyboard modal view class to inherit the proper UIKit methods.

gcheong 16y ago
I often wonder why nobody ever asks Steve if he codes when he does an interview. Maybe I should e-mail him.
- steveklabnik 16y ago
  Isn't it fairly well known that Steve used to code, but hasn't since like the 80s? He dabbled with it, but decided that it wasn't his strong point? Or am I just making that up entirely? Sounds like something buried in folklore.org somewhere...
  - nikcub 16y ago
    He has a very good dev understanding, it is more about being more useful and efficient directing the company rather than writing code. Steve made most of the major design decisions in OS X, for eg. and is a lot like billg at msft
  - gcheong 16y ago
    That is certainly the impression I have. I wouldn't expect him to be writing production code anymore but I do wonder if he hacks on anything personally or if any of his kids do.
  - philwelch 16y ago
    I think his technical involvement with Apple started and ended in the 70's, when he helped assemble the Apple I boards that Woz designed. I don't know if he's ever coded. I found a video once of him demonstrating NextSTEP, but it stops right before he's about to demonstrate the programming environment, so I don't know if he even demoed that part or got someone who could code to do it. What he has done personally is some of the design; he's listed on the design patents for the glass staircase at one of the main Apple stores, and personally designed one of the glass cubes.
  - oofoe 16y ago
    Well, he did say that he'd read all of Knuth's books... (See http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Close_Encounters_of_the_Steve_Kind.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=knuth http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...)