Robert Alan Tickle

@AnishA_Moonka The OS used by NeXT was derived from the Mach microkernel and BSD Unix. Linux was derived from Unix which is the OS that is now used everywhere.

Spring 1992. Steve Jobs stands in front of a room of MBA students at MIT, pitching a computer that almost nobody bought. The company was called NeXT. It sold about 50,000 machines in its entire existence. By every measure, it was a failure. The software inside it became the foundation of every Apple product ever made, and the platform on which the World Wide Web was invented. He's 37. He's been fired from Apple, the company he co-founded. He spends 70 minutes talking. He tells a room full of future consultants that consulting is a waste of talent. "Without owning something over an extended period of time, where one has to see one's recommendations through all action stages and accumulate scar tissue for the mistakes, one learns a fraction of what one can." He compares consulting to looking at a picture of a banana. "You might have a lot of pictures on your wall. You can say, I've worked in bananas, I've worked in peaches, I've worked in grapes. But you never really taste it." He says, "I think everybody lost" about being pushed out of Apple. "I think I lost. And I wanted to spend my life there. I think Apple lost. I think customers lost." Then: "Having said all that, so what? You go on. It's not as bad as a lot of things. Not as bad as losing your arm." He says hardware can never be a lasting competitive advantage. "Hardware churns every 18 months. You can make something one and a half or two times as good as your competitor, and it only lasts six months." But software, he says, is a different game. "You can make something five or even ten times as good as your competitors in software. And it's very, very hard to copy. I watched Microsoft take eight or nine years to catch up with the Mac." Then he makes a claim that almost nobody in the room would have believed: "Object-oriented technology is the biggest technical breakthrough I have seen since the early 80s with graphical user interfaces. And I think it's bigger actually." He was describing NeXTSTEP, the software his "failed" company had built. Object-oriented programming, in plain terms, means building software from reusable building blocks rather than writing everything from scratch. Jobs said developers could build apps on NeXTSTEP in about a third to a quarter of the time it took on other systems. Almost nobody cared. By industry standards, NeXT was a flop. But four years after this talk, Apple was nearly bankrupt. They bought NeXT for $427 million. Jobs came back. NeXTSTEP became Mac OS X in 2001. The same code became iOS when the iPhone launched in 2007. Every Mac, every iPhone, every iPad, every Apple Watch runs on what Jobs was selling while Sun was trying to put him out of business. One more thing. In 1990, at a physics lab in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee needed a computer to build a prototype for something he called the World Wide Web. He chose a NeXT. He built the first web browser and the first web server. The internet, as you know it, was born on a machine that couldn't find a market. When asked what he learned from being fired from Apple, Jobs pauses. Then he says, "I now take a longer-term view on people. When I see something not being done right, my first reaction isn't to go fix it. It's to say, we're building a team here, and we're going to do great stuff for the next decade, not just the next year." He was 37, running a company most people thought was dead, standing in a room full of MBA students. Apple is now worth $3.7 trillion. Every dollar of it runs on the thing he built when nobody was watching.

@MarkChangizi There is no such term as "Woke Right". Woke is completely a Far Left term.

Need a name for those who are - not Woke Left - not Woke Right - anti-Islamist - aggressive to bullies - not anti-Semitic - not “I’m not anti-Jew I’m anti-[BS here]” - for free speech - for civil liberties - against “balancing” civil liberties - for free markets - for cost benefit analyses - for tight immigration - against isolationism - contemptuous of international law - against foreign dictatorships - “America First,” not “Israel Last” - love Iranians - “Free Iran” but not “Free Palestine” - appreciative that strength brings peace - want Cuba free Suggestions?

@livingdevops Ritchie did great things, but he didn't start from scratch. Nobody does. He based "C" on Ken Thompson's "B", which was itself derived from BCPL.

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant. - No VC funding. - No viral launch. - No TED talk. - Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve. He built a language that fit in kilobytes. 50 years later, it runs everything. Linux kernel. Windows. macOS. Every iPhone. Every Android. NASA’s deep space probes. The International Space Station. > Python borrowed from it. > Java borrowed from it. > JavaScript borrowed from it. If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow. He died in 2011. The same week as Steve Jobs. Jobs got the front pages. Ritchie got silence. This Legend deserves to be celebrated.

@TheProjectUnity As soon as you said BCE instead of BC, I clicked away.

I recorded this video at The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, it is called 'The Disk of Sabu' or 'The Schist Disk'. It was found in Tomb S3111 at Saqqara by Walter Bryan Emery in 1936, it is believed to be from 3000 BCE. Mainstream answer? A "Ritual Object"

@gustav0cardenas Bullshit

Tucker Carlson se metió en un gran lío, pero tremendo. Al parecer, estaba pasando información clasificada a los iraníes. Cuando Trump lo descubrió, en vez de mandarlo detener, lo invitó más seguido a su despacho y comenzó a tener conversaciones sobre Irán donde le daba información falsa sobre lo que iba a hacer. En esas conversaciones decía que no iba a atacar y que tenía otros planes. Debido a esto, el ayatolá dejó de dormir en su búnker porque confiaba 100 % en Carlson, y por eso fue posible eliminarlo en los primeros ataques. Carlson fue un emisario que Trump supo usar y ahora está siendo investigado por colusión con un gobierno extranjero.

@AnishA_Moonka Steve Jobs was a liar and a thief. He also used his money and influence to jump the waiting line for a liver transplant. He still died.

June 1983. A 28-year-old Steve Jobs walks into a design conference in Aspen, Colorado. He asks the room who owns a personal computer. Nobody raises their hand. He says “Uh-oh.” Then he spends the next 55 minutes describing the next four decades of technology. Jobs told the audience Apple’s strategy was to “put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you, that you can learn how to use in 20 minutes… with a radio link in it so you don’t have to hook up to anything.” That’s an iPhone. In 1983. The Mac hadn’t even shipped yet. He described an MIT project that sent a camera truck down every street in Aspen, photographed every intersection, and built a virtual walkthrough on a computer screen. Google Street View launched 24 years later. He said office networking was about 5 years away and home networking 10 to 15 years out. The web went mainstream in the mid-90s, about 12 years later. Dead on. He described software being sent electronically over phone lines, with free previews and credit card payment. That’s the App Store, 25 years before it launched. He even compared it to the music industry and said software needed “the equivalent of a radio station” for free sampling. Apple built the iTunes Music Store 20 years later. The AI prediction is the one that hits different now. Near the end, Jobs talked about machines that could capture a person’s “underlying spirit” or “way of looking at the world,” so that after they died, you could ask the machine questions and maybe get answers. He said 50 to 100 years. ChatGPT arrived in about 40. The weird part is this speech was lost for nearly 30 years. The full hour-long recording only surfaced in 2012 when a blogger got a cassette tape from someone who attended the original conference. The Steve Jobs Archive didn’t release actual video footage until July 2024. His timelines were consistently too fast. He wanted the “computer in a book” within the 1980s. Apple’s first attempt was the Macintosh Portable in 1989, which weighed 16 pounds and cost $6,500. The iPad arrived in 2010, 27 years late. He guessed voice recognition was about a decade away. Siri launched in 2011, nearly 30 years later. The vision was right every time. The clock was wrong every time. Apple was doing about $1 billion a year in revenue when Jobs gave this talk, with under 5,000 employees. Today it’s worth $3.7 trillion.

@NonEchoChamber @Om_Codes_ Without this man co-creating Unix, Linus Torvalds would not have had anything to clone to make Linux.

@Om_Codes_ You can say the same thing about Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux which is basically the hosting OS at 90% of data centers, AI or otherwise. He is still active & relevant if you wanted to follow him.

- Meet Dennis Ritchie - Creator of C - Co-creator of Unix - Inspired languages like C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, and Go - Stayed away from media and the spotlight - Winner of the Turing Award - His work became the foundation of modern technology - Only real tech folks know how big his contribution is. - died in 2011 Absolute GOAT 🐐

@aa29123421 @PNWConservative Yea. Scary. It appears to be an armor piercing round.

@PNWConservative AR-15s don't have "magazines" they have Assault clips. Interesting that this bullet had it's child-seeking module removed.

Found this AR-15 round at the local park. You can see the grooves caused by the 67 round magazine too. Probably one of those MAGA types walking around Seattle all the time.

@DefiantLs The answer is Asia. "Native Americans" came across the land bridge from Asia.

Who's saying to "deport Native Americans?"

@sahill_og You forgot to mention that he basically cloned Unix. Unix was developed by a team at Bell Labs.

Linus Torvalds created Linux at 21 without Claude or any other AI. - He didn't have a co-founder. - No VC funding. No office. - No team. - Just a personal project he posted to a mailing list: "I'm doing a free OS." 33 years later, it runs 97% of the world's servers, all smartphones, and the International Space Station. The most important software in history started as someone's side project. Absolute legend.

@gman5180 Damn... who is going to run the 7-Elevens?

Umm, ok. 🤔

@Jules31415 I'm starting to like Fetterman even more than before... if that is even possible. Fetterman is one of only a few real old school Democrats. The rest of the bunch are Socialists.

Elizabeth Vargas: "You said that you are confident that the world is better after the death of Iran's supreme leader, the ayatollah Khamenei..." Sen. Fetterman: "100%. Yeah, kill every last member of their leadership." Vargas: "Well, his son is now in charge, and he's considered even more of a hardliner." Fetterman: "They should kill him too." Vargas: *scoffs* "Well, maybe they will! But in the meantime, he's been elected...to be the guy in charge. It's hard to see how we're better off with him in charge." Fetterman: "There's also the fact that he hasn't been able to produce a video or been seen in public, at all...Hopefully, he is significantly wounded. And if he does recover, you know, I do absolutely support having Israel just eliminate him, along with any parts of the leadership."

@big_yemm They are for liberal arts majors.

Can we admit that these buttons are useless on calculators ?

@creation247 In those days every state had at least one Insane Asylum and these places were full of crazy people. Now the crazy people live on the streets.

Watch footage like this carefully. Notice what’s missing. No chains stores. No drug addicts. It's just small towns built around family life. This is what a country looks like before it forgets God

@lippyent The cigarette of most WW2 GIs. On the package somewhere is: LSMFT which means, Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco. Later the cool kids said it meant, Loose Straps Mean Floppy Titties.

First thing that pops in your 🧠? Hmm 😒 🤔?¿

That's the one and only Linda Ronstadt. She gave the Eagles their start and she sang with them a few times. Later she tried her hand at songwriting and it wasn't so good. Don Henley told her she should stick to covers. That pissed off Linda and she never spoke to Don Henley again after that.

Ok, here is one I am sure no one Knows who this is! At least 90 percent don’t recognize her here!

@enjoyer_liberty Bessent is an A++

Grades for President Trump’s Team: Vance: A+ Homan: A+ Rubio: A+ Bessent: A Hegseth: A+ Bongino: F Gabbard: B RFK Jr: A+ Patel: D Bondi: D Wiles: C Musk: D Burgum: B+ Duffy: B Zeldin: B+ Noem: D Waltz: C Chavez-DeRemer: B Miller: A+ Leavitt: A

@DimaZeniuk No other company or country on Earth is even close to doing this. SpaceX is a national treasure.

What are you feeling when you watch this?

@RealJessica Hope you are immune to norovirus.

This couple moved into a cabin on a cruise ship (The Odessy) and are guaranteed 15 years. $3,500 for two per month includes -food -wine and beer -internet -laundry 2x week -housekeeping 2x week -gym and entertainment -plus all the beautiful travel destinations Would you do this?? Follow: @RealJessica

@Matt_Pinner Cream and butter.

Settle this for me : milk or butter in mashed potatoes?