California Declares Today "Steve Jobs Day" 333
First time accepted submitter onezeta writes "California Gov. Jerry Brown, in an announcement via a Twitter post, has declared it 'Steve Jobs Day.' The Apple co-founder's life as a technology trailblazer will be marked Sunday by his company's home state at a private memorial service and in a television documentary airing tonight at 8 pm EST on Discovery."
But its a Sunday (Score:4, Informative)
They should Mondayize it, like Columbus Day, Presidents Day, and MLK Day.
Whats the point of a Holiday if nobody has the day off?
For that matter why are Halloween and Valentines Day called holidays - nobody has them off...
Re:Another holiday: (Score:1, Informative)
It "kinda works".
There are probably only very small number of people in the world who can write nontrivial C programs properly - e.g. they can put USD(2 ^ number of exploitable[1] bugs)-1 bounties on their C programs and not go bankrupt.
[1] e.g. attacker can execute arbitrary code of the attacker's choice.
Re:Written in C (Score:5, Informative)
It's not just that C is the second most common [gcn.com] programming language: Most of the other languages are actually written in C. That includes Perl, Python, and PHP.
Not only that, but realistically you have to count embedded systems, not just personal computing devices. By that measure, C is still by far the most popular programming language on the planet.
Re:Another holiday: (Score:5, Informative)
> If any of those things sound like bad business
> decisions for a company that never employed
> more than 600 people and never had significant
> sales, congratulations, you're a better
> businessman than Steve Jobs.
Way to cherry-pick your facts. Did you co-found what is, at the moment, the most valuable company in the world? Did you form another company (NeXT) for a few tens of millions of dollars and sell it for $429 million a few years later? Did you buy an animation studio for $10 million and sell it $7.4 BILLION twenty years later? (Bonus question: did you run both of those companies at the same time?) Ever create any products that sell in the tens or hundreds of millions? And not just paperclips or address labels or something like that, but nice, multi-hundred-dollar items? No? Well, congratulations, you're a worse businessman than Steve Jobs.
His time at NeXT was his time to try various things, find out who he was (he was only 30 at the time), try MORE things, FAIL a little, and learn. You make it sound like that's a bad thing.
And the part about "sent memos to every retail store specifying the exact colors to use and that the logo absolutely must be tilted at precisely 22 degrees"? EVERYONE does that. That's totally standard in the design world. Ever wonder why you don't see the Ford logo in purple, the Coke logo in green, or the Nike swoosh at a crazy angle? DESIGN GUIDELINES, that's why. EVERY company has them. Fucking foursquare [amazonaws.com] has an intricate collection of design guidelines.