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> but in Germany it sucks

That's funny. A German client of mine specifically asked me to put an OpenStreetMap map right next to the Google Map because the details of OpenStreetMap were more precise. The client creates POI geo coordinates and uses the maps to find the best position for a poi.
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I think I saw somewhere on the Raspberry Pi forums that it would run fine on 4 AA batteries.
Good luck getting a power user (or god forbid, a community moderator) review removed.

A number of them feel they deserve preferential treatment because of their Yelp status, and will go out of their way to bash you when that doesn't happen.
Raffi tweeted this last night: https://twitter.com/#!/raffi/status/177616491204714497/photo...
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That's not quite right. Rackspace currently uses the Xen Hypervisor for public Cloud, not VMWare. The new Cloud Servers (Nova) is based on the open source OpenStack Compute (http://openstack.org/projects/compute/) code base. The new Cloud Servers is in public beta right now for people to try out (http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-cloud-servers-powere...).

The new Cloud Servers will have much greater flexibility and a better feature set. It will help solve many issues that customers have with the current offerings. That information will be coming out over the next couple of months, but since we are only about two-weeks different from the OpenStack nova code base, you can always look there for a preview.

Rackspace does offer a VMWare based private cloud (http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/private_cloud/) for customers who want virtualization, but on their own dedicated hardware. VMWare is not used for public cloud (as far as I know).

Obvious Disclosure: I work at Rackspace and this is to the best of my knowledge.
I don't know what's going on there. OSM does have lots of detail for Germany and the problems with OSM are more general ones with the consistency of label placement and such. No map breaking stuff.

Apple's tiles, however have more glaring mistakes (double labels, missing labels).
I find the OSM one to be way way to busy. I think the Google tiles provide better information clarity + attractiveness value. However, I still maintain those new apple tiles are gorgeous, the way an antique map is gorgeous. I never claimed it provided more information; It's clearly providing less information. But aesthetics and function are separate vectors.
I first read about Yelp's extortion practices in 2009 [1]. I thought that now they have grown so big, the extortion would have stopped. Apparently not :(

[1] http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/yelp-and-the-business-of-e...
Not surprising. A hacker friend of mine once exposed a vulnerability to Google and they told him they focus on products and not security.
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Just as an example of how Open Access journals can gain a huge respect from the community, the following post sums up the success of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, an Open Access journal run by a volunteer editorial board:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficien...

Elsevier should understand that it is the editorial board that matters, not who prints the paper.
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Why are you guys praising GitHub? They basically screwed up thrice: first by not catching such an obvious flaw (granted it should have been changed in Rails, but still), second by breaking half the scripts that rely on their service and finally by sending such an obnoxious email (really required action? Who the hell to do you think you are?).

Anyway it is pretty moot at this point since I have long ago forgotten my password and changing the orgion to somebody else is pretty easy.

That said, can anybody recommend alternatives? I know Bitbucket and they seem pretty great, especially as they allow private repositories, but it seems the consensus here doesn't like them for some reason?
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> Evolution is a pretty cool tool.

This is not evolution, it's exactly the opposite. Take the cake sample. You have a goal (the cake) and let the AI system find a way to reach that goal. Evolution has no goals at all.
Finding reliable data for that one has been a lot of trouble; there's a variety of ideas as far as what constitutes music sales, and many of the useful numbers are behind RIAA and IFPI paywalls.
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It seems to be driven by the sort of cost benefit analysis that one uses in logistics and elsewhere in business.

With an army of IP lawyers at their disposal, a multi-billion dollar war chest, and an opponent running on a shoe-string, they can probably force OSM to go all-in if it comes to a lawsuit.

The cynical part of me sees this as great publicity for iPhoto using the P.T. Barnum principle:

"I don't care what they say about me, just make sure they spell my name right! "

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:P._T._Barnum
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its missing detail? at least in my city its much more detailed than gmaps
This is my issue with the article. If your rights as content creator are violated by Pinterest, then that's between you and Pinterest. If Pinterest were to say "but user 4023 said it was ours to use!" my reaction would be "so what?"
It's a consistent, scalable, high-performance key-value store. If you need the use cases spelled out for you, you should not be using it or anything else related to the web.
Apple's labels are strange, they aren't from OSM, but some other source. There are numerous differences between OSM labels and Apple labels.
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With many of these larger map-based apps switching to OpenStreetMap, does anyone know any apps that receive a large amount of traffic that are currently/going to stay with Google Maps? And if so, how are they dealing with the charges (is it doable with a large amount of traffic without a significant source of revenue)?
Long term health care will never be free, there will have to be minimum payments/co-pays and the like. Otherwise people will simply abuse it,

People never value what they don't pay for: it's just the way folk are.

One can see this on a micro level: buy your teenager a laptop. Make sure you buy the extended warranty: you'll need it.
Have a look at ikiwiki. I use it to generate a blog on github, but as a wiki it's great for notes as well.
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This is a great idea for the long term. There will always be a need for something like this, as an alternative to the cloud. Dropbox should have come up with this, to differentiate themselves from their competitors.

Sounds like a good acquisition candidate.
True, but at the very least, we're reducing the set of all possible fraudsters and system-gamers.

How many of the fraudulent reviews on Yelp do we really believe are coming from fraudsters with this level of sophistication? My guess is that it's a pretty small percentage. Seems far more likely that most bogus reviews are coming from competitive small business owners, paid-off users, and other relatively average folk with a minimal level of technical understanding -- or even sufficient malice to drive them to become more sophisticated. (It doesn't help that Yelp may, or may not, be assigning greater weight to negative reviews unless/until a small business owner buys into their advertising).
That would be a violation of the license, right? If you use places, you need to use Google's API to display them.
Redis has a rich API but it doesn't scale and it doesn't guarantee consistency.
OK, then how about this: If OSM send in the hounds and start suing & issuing take down notices (which is silly, the OSMF isn't rich), then Apple and others will feel the hostility and have a bad taste.

If, however, Apple realise their mistake in a timely manner and abide by OSM's copyright, then OSM will have another happy user and can continue on with world domination.

"Assuming honest mistake" is good for long term & political goals.
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Actually I'm coming from database programming, primarily in SQL, where scripting can add immense value to whatever you're up to.

That said, I very much agree with your sentiments and it does require effort to write resilient, maintainable scripts.

Nevertheless, for my day to day work it's probably the most useful "language".
Whoa, I sent you an email yesterday. Double-checking the email spelling...
The map for my hometown shows a train station that hasn't existed since the early 1900's.
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I hope they took into account that the /cache partition is quite small (45.2MB on Galaxy S running CyanogenMod). For me it's not even possible to install applications that are bigger than a few megabytes. For example, I can't install World of Goo directly from the market app.

Edit: I probably should explain. Market seems to download apps to /cache partition before installing them.
Recent news says "Something here" and "Another headline." I'm assuming that'll be something similar to a recent news feed related to your Issues and Events page? Or is that for more general news?
People don't want complicated history. They want "The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell". Even if it's factually incorrect or obscures the real story.
I love Bitbucket and have been using them exclusively for a long time. I have many private repos histed there for free. I have several private repos there shared between a few users, also free. I'm unnerved by how they havent asked me for money, but grateful. Free jira, wiki, and hipchat, too.

I'm a Mercurial guy, but they do git too.
.... True, but it's also not the page that was linked to. Did the page that was linked to work for you?
Interesting. They're actually using OpenStreetMap! http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/08/welcome-apple/

iOS 6 = Apple Maps? It'd be cool if they could WebGL it so there's no dependency on images.
No problem. It would make a person who wanted to do exactly the same thing with 0 knowledges life a lot easier, but on the other hand I don't think someone like that would be using Jekyll.
OSM or Apple's maps? OSM has crazy amounts of accurate detail for all cities I know in Germany.

Apple's tiles have all the streets but not a lot of detail (probably by choice, nothing wrong with a sparser map, especially for the intended purpose) and the labels suck.
I played Star Wars Galaxies for 7 years and met a lot of cool people. At times it didn't feel like a Star Wars game but I made the most of it. I didn't agree with some of the changes (both major and minor) but now I appreciate that I was part something great. I miss it from time to time and regret 0 time I spent playing Star Wars Galaxies.
I find Apple's new map to be strangely blurred and muddy. Some interesting styles at large scales - the pattern on the sea for instance. Very old fashioned-looking.
So, the company gives you a 2TB external hard drive for free, on the condition that you use 1TB to store your own data and 1TB to store copies of other people's encrypted data? Sounds interesting, until you get a huge bill for bandwidth overage. I have barely 100GB of bandwidth to spare every month (out of a total of 300GB/mo), so if that hard drive gets filled in less than 10 months, we've got a problem. They're effectively pushing their costs onto ISPs, who in turn will push their costs onto customers. Restoring backups is also going to be pretty slow if your data is stored on somebody's 10M/1M DSL line. They'd better market it in countries where everyone has 100M and no bandwidth caps.
It seems like no matter how much time I spend trying to learn git and its commands I still continue to only understand a tiny sliver of them. The rest I figure out by browsing random stackoverflow questions as the need arises.
I don't know much about OSM, but I saw a comparison of the new map tiles in iPhoto with the same place in Google, and Google's seemed much more detailed. I know Apple is doing this to remove dependencies on G but I fear it could be a bit of a regression. I hope I'm wrong. In iPhoto that's not such a big deal, but other apps rely on the map much more.
I don't see it the same way. The article says they spec'ed a certain part on the BOM and the manufacturing house dropped in a different part. I see this all the time from overseas board houses that think they can get away with subbing in a cheaper part and charging the same price.

If this was my vendor and something like this happened, believe me, this would not be "Shit Happens" and a shrug all around from my management.
It's not trendy, but I still love dedicated servers. You must invest time as a sysadmin (or hire a good freelance), but then you can cram so much more power per system...

Or choose a Paas if you really don't want to get dirty with the low-level infrastucture details.
Take a look into rsnapshot. It already exists and does exactly what you're looking for.
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You may find that people treat you harshly because you can create software, maybe using words like "nerd". Maybe you will find that because you can dissect their logic that they hate arguing with you. You may even find that simply knowing how a computer works makes you annoying and weird to them.
To this I have one just piece of advice: they can go to hell.
:D It was worth it for that alone.
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As an end-user, I like Scribble. And really, if The Verge is putting up with vid.io's consistently inconsistent crap, they shouldn't complain about an occasional glitch from Scribble.
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I think this is a great idea but I think Dropbox has a pretty well established brand name. My guess is that most people aren't going to find the need to switch. The ones who might make the switch are the paranoid folks who would think this is some sort of more secure way to sync.

The idea is nice but the challenge, IMO, will be in marketing this.
Also, if you forget your password to the password manager... :)
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What am I missing here? WordPress lets you build a blog in 5 minutes.
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It seems to be working ok for Spotify
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The whole article is sarcasm laid on with a trowel by people who would probably be willing to chase all the media exposure and legal avenues available to them if Apple doesn't play nice from here on in.

I would love to be a fly-on-the wall at the Apple meeting where they are forced to discuss this.
Can't create much when we can't see schematics and ascertain if the I/O ports carry what we need. And if there was a deficiency, they've publicly said they won't respin boards.

Not a very encouraging situation.
It's really a tragedy that the same company - Microsoft - is the origin of the only reasonably successful business-focused programming environment (VBA) and the notion that interacting with a computer through any other means than point-and-click - especially typing command and editing text files - is hard and is only for stupid geeks with bad hygiene.
Vagrant's online documentation is done with Jekyll, the idea being that it's very easy for contributors to edit content and view their changes.

http://vagrantup.com/docs/index.html
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To tolerate f failures, we need to have f+1 replicas of the data. This implies increased storage, but the f parameter is entirely up to the application.

Record insertion affects all replicas of the data, so latency increases with replication.

The first graph on the performance page (http://hyperdex.org/performance/) shows that a 100% insertion workload will exhibit higher latency (and thus lower throughput for a fixed number of synchronous clients). Write-mostly workloads are slower, but I wouldn't say "extremely slow."
In terms of Moore's law continuing, its nice to know that the fundamental limits are still three orders of magnitude out, and that there are clever things we can do to keep going even then.
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I'm a GitHub guy so I wanted to use my username GitHub page.
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But what are the rules of this "mythmaking" game you speak of? Seems like a pretty subjective game to get excited about in terms of right or wrong.

To play Devil's Advocate: Apple has been extraordinarily successful at inventing or popularizing multiple industries within the technology space. They're still around and doing very well financially and in the eyes of the consuming public.

Commodore/Amiga were neat in ways, but never could produce the "whole package" experience and business model they needed to last for the long haul. Surely they deserve some footnotes for their efforts, but their relative popularity/myth within the computer industry is just about where it should be.
Dropbox is also kinda expensive. $125/year per user starts to add up if you've got a lot of users.
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Yeah, I think you're missing the point of running a blog.

A blog is about producing and publishing content. It's not thinking about scaling when there's absolutely no need for it. If one has something worthwhile to say, then spending anything more than 5 minutes to setup a blog is just a waste of time.

That's almost like having an important meeting to get to, but taking a few weeks to reinvent the wheel just so you can get there.
This doesn't seem to do justice to ruby. What about the huge string manipulation, array and hash standard libraries baked in to ruby that js simply doesn't have?

Taking into account a modern stack, a fairer comparison is Ruby + ActiveSupport vs. CS + Sugar.js. The closest thing to that is this one: http://sugarjs.com/libs/Ruby
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Queue the class action lawsuit.
Someone at Apple definitely deserves a good spanking..
Why not build something more useful than a blog then? Reinventing the wheel seems like a poor use of time.
I think a large part of it comes down to why different people like programming. I learned to program when trying to figure out why computers work. I learned to work on cars when trying to figure out how they work. I like building things and I like fixing broken things. Programming happens to be chock full of both, pays well, allows more time to think and analyze the problem and getting paid for it doesn't ruin the enjoyment (for me). I could make more doing something else and I could make more working at companies where I'm not building things, but they aren't what I love doing. Life is too short do not do something you love, it's just a matter of finding something you love to do that you can get paid for.
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I greatly appreciate their honesty, prompt timing, and engineering lesson. That's above the call of duty, even for the best distributors.
First of all, I hate the "here is my weekend project I created in x seconds/minutes/days", but I consider the title of this post to be an ellipsis: "How I built my blog in one day and you can too!".

If you click on the link, you'll see that it's a project that is not there to promote the submitter nor stroke their ego, but to help other people simplify something many find to be tedious and difficult - and in an incredibly well-presented way.

I know about the Twitter Bootstrap like everyone and their dog, but I only see articles of praise rather than articles that praise by showing instead of telling through a guide and demonstrating the result in the form of the site itself.

Well done. This is the best article I have seen on Twitter Bootstrap.
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I've been using an OCZ Vertex 2 for a couple of years and it works like a charm ... I got it from Newegg, but if you have a Microcenter, they may price match ...
I have lots of ideas, sometimes you just have to start somewhere. Since I hadn't made GitHub user page that is just where I choose to start. Thanks for your feedback.
So you make the money, donate it and then they use your money to hire you to solve their problem? Minus tax. Uhm.
This is cool, I've been thinking of how this could be applied to turn based games, for example RPG combat. I have read about commercial "balancing" tools but never about a wholly computer generated system.
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Probably for the same reasons that programmers don't - for all but the simplest of procedures there may be unforseen complications, particularly since they mostly deal with legacy "applications"
I've had great success with Samsung 830-series in two Macbook Pros. Actually I just ordered another one to put in my desktop.

I'd stick with Intel or Samsung if you care about reliability more than pure performance. That said, the Samsung does perform very well.
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I'm kind of curious why you use SecureRandom.hex and then check for uniqueness, rather than just using SecureRandom.uuid?

Edit: Nevermind, I realize now that SecureRandom's uuid isn't really a uuid, in that sense. It's just random.
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According to the post, Apple's using an old version of the OSM data set.
Maximum length is the worst. If I discover that a service enforces a maximum length (besides simple practical limits like, say, 255 characters), I do not use that service if I can avoid it. You know when you see that that you are not dealing with someone who understands security.
Not to mention the obvious legal ramifications, even of encrypted data - in the UK, it's a crime not to give up the key to encrypted data, even if you claim to not have it (though I would hope in this case it's provable you really never did, and that would somehow help.)
I didn't even think it was good enough for iPhoto. On one of my photos (in the US), it showed some random town label that I wouldn't consider correct, zooming out didn't add any new labels, and it took forever to download any new tiles.
I created my static blog using Blogofile a couple of weeks ago, and the best take-away from the experience is the ease of backing it up. My entire blog is in a GitHub repo, so my own clumsiness, governmental misappropriation and such are not likely to destroy my blog for good.

There is obviously a lot to say about static blogs in general, but this is by far the upside I am most content with.

On the flip-side, figuring out how to enable gzipping and having to use a www. subdomain are nuisances people setting up their blog on Wordpress won't have to bother with - at least on a number of Wordpress hosts.
It might be because he publishes his comments as ebooks and can't use a comment that's too out of context.
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Thanks!

Currently I am reading these books:

Mark Joshi: The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance

Daniel Duffy: Introduction to C++ for Financial Engineers (I already know C++, but I read this because of the finance related stuff.)
Sure thing. You seem like a very enthusiastic and detail oriented guy - I'm sure you'll create something cool for us to check out soon.