Re:The Case Against Apple
by ojbyrne on Sunday August 09, 2009 @12:52AM
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Minor quibble, "Jason Calacanis wrote Mahalo" isn't accurate. I don't quite understand why it's so hard to grasp the difference between executives (go to meetings, power lunches, couldn't actually write code if their life depended on it), and programmers (actually build stuff, when the executives aren't in the way).
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Re:The Case Against Apple
by codyrobbins on Sunday August 09, 2009 @01:39AM
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Sure, good point. When I used 'wrote' I did mean it in the broadest possible sense of his 'authorship' of the business as a whole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphorical_extension
He may not have written the actual code, but he's definitely the driving force behind the company.
Sure, but in that case, we would tend to say something like, "created Mahalo" or "the man behind Mahalo," not "wrote" Mahalo.
Otherwise, yes, your rejoinder is very apt. We say things like, "France rejects US demands for airline passenger information" all the time, knowing full well that France could not collectively do that literally.