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Steve Job's Yacht - Venus
- jerrya 14y agoI would like someone to confirm that is Steve Job's Yacht and that he was involved in the design process. That yacht seems the antithesis of a Jobsian yacht. Ostentatious. Gaudy. A landlubber's office complex on water. Features and design that would make it difficult to handle on water. Dysfunction follows form.
- gorans 14y agoIt does look like more like a building than a yacht
- freejack 14y agoI had a similar emotional reaction to the boat. I don't know the first thing about yacht design so I'm really out on a limb here, and I don't think I would go so far as to say "ostentatious" or "gaudy" although there were a few things that seemed a bit out of place to me. The shiny bow, the boxiness of the rear decks, the symmetry of the roof lines - none seemed really consistent with what I would have expected. Of course I don't know what I was expecting, just that this didn't feel right. Even the name feels a bit off. I imagine that this is someone's boat, and I'm not totally convinced that this one belongs to the Jobs'.
- dagw 14y agoDysfunction follows form. You're assuming the primary function of a yacht is to travel quickly and gracefully through a wide variety of waters. While some hold that view, other believe the primary function of yacht is to be an awesome office, apartment and party space that can be moved between the St. Tropez and Monaco harbors. This boat seems to fulfill latter function perfectly.
- jd 14y agoIn comparison to other yachts (E.g. http://list25.com/25-most-expensive-yachts-ever-built/ http://list25.com/25-most-expensive-yachts-ever-built/) "Venus" looks pretty minimalist to me.
- dorian-graph 14y agoIsaacson spoke with Jobs about it and it's detailed in his biography.
- tapan_pandita 14y agoSlow news day apparently ...
- earnubs 14y agoThe upper section, is that an iPad mini stacked on an iPad?
- breckenedge 14y agoI'd have to be a first-gen iPad with the rounded back. Top kinda looks like a Mac Mini from the front, but that diminishes in the other views.
- zalew 14y ago#12 7 points by gorans 2 hours ago #13 141 points by Pwnguinz 15 hours ago how does it work?
- lloeki 14y agoRead yourself again, you wrote it. Hint: It's not a sort on points.
- zalew 14y agoI know it's not a sort of points, I'm just surprised how a post with only 5 upvotes through over 2 hours can land so high on the homepage.
- gus_massa 14y agoOriginally the formula was: (points-1)/(hours+2)^1.4 , but pg changes it whenever he wants, so the "gravity coefficient" is now different from 1.4. You can read detailed analysis of the (published) formula in 2009 in http://www.arcfn.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.html http://www.arcfn.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.ht... And there are a lot of secret coefficient corrections, for example the number of flagging that the submission received and the number of comments (if it has too many comments, it is too polemic and it is pushed down.) If we use the 2009 formula we get Points(P) Time(H) (P-1)^.8/(H+2)^1.8 7 2 0.3457 141 15 0.3177 that gives the ordering you saw.
- zalew 14y agotx! "if it has too many comments, it is too polemic and it is pushed down." well, this is surprising.
- snogglethorpe 14y agoThe funny thing is that the sum seems less than the parts here—nothing looks really all that bad in isolation[+], but as a whole it's awkward and unbalanced, looking like unrelated pieces sort of crammed together as an afterthought. Utterly without grace. I wonder what Apple's industrial designers think about it... [+] Aesthetically, mind you; judging from comments on other sites, the hull shape is not so good for an ocean-going vessel...
- indiecore 14y agoSo you're saying that it's an aesthetically pleasing piece of work that while functional isn't the absolute best you can get? Sounds like Apple products to me. (I wonder if this'll kick off a big yacht buying trend?)
- snogglethorpe 14y agoNo; please read what I wrote again.
- Aardwolf 14y agoIt looks like something I'd accept if it were given to me as a gift, but to me personally wouldn't be worth the purchase with my money. The front looks a bit weird.
- joezydeco 14y agoSo the Dutch shipyard crew finishes an 8 or 9 figure yacht (that you know had to be not as easy as a regular 8 or 9 figure yacht) and they get handed a $25 iPod and a thank you note written in English? That kind of came off as tacky. Or a fitting summary of Jobs' career.
- dpcx 14y agoExcept that, these employees were paid by the manufacturer of the yacht company. The Jobs' didn't have to give them anything. A thank you note was already above. The iPod was beyond.
- aidos 14y agoOr...maybe they got paid as usual and enjoyed working on an very interesting and challenging project.
- LoonyPandora 14y agoIncidentally 86% of Dutch people speak English, from my experience that is higher in coastal / docklands areas. Also an iPod shuffle is $49. I thought it was a nice gesture.
- joezydeco 14y agoYou don't think the Jobs family gets a company discount on iPods? C'mon.
- xradionut 14y agoAs a Navy vet and a technical guy, I wouldn't mind seeing the actual specs on this beast. As a sailor, I'd rather crew on a ship designed more for performance than luxury.
- deadsy 14y agoNot an expert, but I'd be worried about those hull windows around the bow getting broken as you plowed through waves. Maybe the boat is more of an Apple III than an iPhone.
- VBprogrammer 14y agoI think it probably says something about my eye for design that I prefer the megayachts which look more like cross-channel ferries (Le Grand Bleu and Octopus) than the god awful fibreglass gin palaces.
- zalew 14y agoI prefer powerboats, but the Abramovich's megayacht was awesome. afair aside of heli landings it had a powerboat inside and anti-missile protection. this Jobs' one looks like an ugly office building.
- timc3 14y agoThat is quite the eyesore, with a complete lack of any emotion or inspiration and it has what looks like an Apple store inside.
- sam_davis 14y agoPlease stop reposting this.
- jasonkolb 14y agoI think his love of minimalist Bauhaus design really shines through here. Not my cup of tea, but then I like furniture in my house, too :) I remember reading his bio and wondering what this looked like--apparently it was his last big personal project that he was trying to get done before he died. It looks very Jobs-ian to me, kind of like a Star Trek spaceship landed in the water.
- orenmazor 14y agoboat aside, I'd love to see more about the instrumentation on the bridge with those imacs…
- BenoitEssiambre 14y agoAm I the only one who sees this?: http://imgur.com/jdEEx http://imgur.com/jdEEx
- backprojection 14y agoI don't really care; people can do whatever they want with their money, _obviously_. But I am kind of surprised Jobs owned/commissioned a yacht. I always figured owning a yacht was an abject status symbol, and that somehow Jobs tried to be 'above' these things. meh
- JanezStupar 14y agoTo me it looks like an Imperial Star Destroyer.