I want to say a word about why we felt it was so important to honor Steve Jobs with a special system-wide message on Stack Overflow, a site for programmers, as well as our Apple-specific site, AskDifferent.
Remember, for a moment, the first Macintosh. A brilliant computer, but we programmers looked at it and said… wait! It’s not expandable! It has inadequate memory! You have to change the floppy disk every ten seconds! How on earth can you run Serious Programs on this thing? Even then, Steve didn’t give a hoot about your needs as nerdy computer geeks. He was trying to make a …