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Yeah, I can't say I've ever had a problem with Google's maps on iOS being unreliable, slow or ... whatever problem is supposedly corrected by a 'cleaner' app.

I'm sure Apple could improve those things and I may well notice and appreciate the improvements. But I'd much rather see turn by turn navigation and useful traffic data. [1]

[1] By useful, I just mean something proactive and actionable. Allowing me to manually scan my route to look for yellow and red highlights doesn't really help. And by the time I know I'm in a jam, it's not a huge help to know how far the jam is. It's nice, but I'm already in the jam.

It would be awesome if we could get something that takes a programmed commute and sends notifications about backups not yet encountered and offers alternate routes -- taking into account the full traffic situation. So that if the 'obvious' detour is already also backed up, it doesn't send me that way either.
I don't know. Finding the exact line is hard, but you can easily define uniquely human behavior.
As an avid rebase user, I want to add rebase support eventually. Something like interactive rebase, however, the question is how to improve something that is nearly perfect.
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Have you tried to sell it? I recall a few weeks ago a post here on hn where someone was trying to buy an app that was already making money.

As a side note, I went onto your personal website from the hn profile and on this page => http://www.kemalenver.com/iphone ...none of the images showed up.
Theoretically just the aerial images would be enough if you have some control points. But I remember the Nokia people say they used mobile laserscan data. Can't find the source anymore though, I thought it was on HN actually.
Using Google Maps I wish there was a "chatty" setting that would just say "you're doing fine" every minute or so on long freeway stretches. It's really not fun to hear "GPS signal lost" and not know how long you've been traveling without it tracking and whether you just missed the exit.

Also, in a strange town traveling down a road for the first time in a rental car at 40 mph I'd like to have another 2 or prompts about which direction I'm going to be heading so I can get in the correct lane.
I agree with most of this, I often times grab my phone at night to look something up and it would be nice if I didn't have a glaring white Google page in my browser destroying my vision. If it would just automatically revert to a night-vision mode after 10pm for me that would be great!
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Mostly agree. Except, the politicians ARE to blame! We need spined, "sensical" statesmen leading our government to workable solutions, not self-fish, egotistical wimps working towards "getting the meanest/loudest 'animal(s)' off our backs and getting re-elected".

Tort reform is where I would start if I was working towards a solution. Tort reform is often not done because 90% (pulled from the air based on recollections of other vague memories of articles and statistics) of politicians are lawyers! This is also why I laws are so horrifically written with legalese making it next to impossible for a layman to understand. Returning to Common Law (over statutory laws) and trials with citizen juries would do wonders for dispensing "justice" the way "the people" see right and fit.
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I remember when my wife got her iPhone 4S. We were heading out to somewhere and, having an Android phone for work and seeing that her iPhone had a Google Maps application, figured that we could use her phone to help us get to our destination.

Imagine my surprise when not only did it not have turn by turn navigation, but it didn't recalculate the route when we made a wrong turn and were clearly driving off of the calculated path. I couldn't believe that such a feature was missing on the iPhone version of Google Maps.

Is there some reason that this is the case? I don't know enough about mapping and phones to know if this is due to some technical limitation or not.
Which responsive images solution should you use?
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> we got sick of waiting for the packages to build and upload

I don't get it. What did they do, that took longer than git commit / git push? It's not like you're compiling anything in python and when you do have deps to compile, they would take that time on deployment anyway.
Great. Correct, I almost forgot it. Thanks for the input. I'll dig into that.
Google 2011 revenues: $37.9 billion. 96% from AdWords.

So I'm guessing someone is clicking on online adverts.

Outside of a certain segment of the startup scene, where actually spending money on marketing is uncool and you have to get customers by being viral/freemium/whatever, there's a ton of businesses that drive traffic through non-sexy means like PPC.

Re: does "branding" add value? I think it does. Keep in mind the original brands, which involved adding a name to commodity products to show customers they were trustworthy. The value of branding is it lets consumers feel trust in what they're buying. You can go in any McDonalds in the world and know that the food will taste OK and won't give you food poisoning. The food is not awesome, either, but it goes to show that often people do value trustworthiness and consistency (ie, branding) over super high-quality.

(Admittedly there is less value in situations where, say, the branded cheese is exactly the same as the supermarket cheese, just in a different packet and twice the price.)
People generally master and commonly use only a subset of C++, i.e. C+.
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Apple bought a startup focused on mapping but it wasn't Nokia. I don't remember the name of the company...
Have you not seen [1] node-inspector? It allows you to debug your server side code with the chrome/safari web inspector.

[1] https://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector
Seems like a proper time for civil disobedience.
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Your site has been hacked and is only showing the hacked pages when the request looks like its from google.

If you wget on of your blog articles you can see an example. (Registering your site with webmaster tools google would of notified you if it sees suspicious activity like this)

There will most likely be a base a base 64 encoded string at the top of your index.php file than when you decode will contain the exploit.

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How did this get on the front page of HN?

Hn is run on a software stack that allows a registered user to submit a link/URL to an item they determine to be of potential interest to the community.

After that link is submitted it appears on the listing of recently submitted articles at the /newest URL. Other users (with sufficient karma) that also find the link of value either upvote it, flag it, and/or comment on it.

As an item receives upvotes and/or comments an algorithm ranks it accordingly amongst other submitted stories, making it potentially visible on the "front page" of the site.

An items ranking is an overall generic indication that a sufficient number of users have found it noteworthy (or not).

It's all really pretty basic and uses a concept that has been around for about 7 or 8 years now. However this "how did this item get to the front page..." question seems to come up with enough frequency that an answer should be more easy to find, or maybe even be emailed to all new accounts so that people will not need to ask these sorts of questions amongst discussions of the article itself.
if 60% of developers break even, counting opportunity cost, I would be really surprised
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That lackluster Google experience is exactly why Apple is building a replacement in-house. They are sick of dealing with Google undercutting them.
I am really happy with "render effects" on Android in combination with screen filter. Setting it to a monochrome red and dim brightness like the author wants is a piece of cake.
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Here's a hint: paying $9.99 (or $0.99 or $0.01, if that's the price that's set) makes you a real customer. The definition of customer is "someone who exchanged his money for your goods/services"; it does not matter the quantity. All money is equally green.

Exclusivity is another name for rent-seeking. HBO has every right to publish (and not publish) its content in the manner of its choosing, but I don't have to like it.

I bought the Game of Thrones books instead; which I was able to do, at physical and virtual locations, individually or in a boxed set, at a fair and reasonable price, at my leisure. Oh, and I can resell them after I've finished reading them.

Funny, that.
Sorry for the downtime, I'm looking into it. It seems I stupidly didn't activate the caching plugin I'm using :(
Isn't it common sense to assume that there are dangerous people in the world? People getting assaulted should have known and taken appropriate precautions. I don't have any sympathy for them. Don't they read the papers?
Well, I've worked on a 50T DB doing 800G of changes per hour, which was recoverable to any point in time. That's not even particularly big by today's standards.
I guess that with modern composited desktops you could filter everything that gets outputted to the screen and change the colors (turn everything into monochrome and then apply a red filter on the whites). http://stereopsis.com/flux/ and http://jonls.dk/redshift/ do something like that.
However, in .coms you could assume that AX was 0 upon entry and skip the XOR.
I've seen that my battery life suffers when I have too many programs running that I don't currently use, so I make it a habit to close a program when I notice I haven't used it, or know I won't be for a few minutes.
Nothing stopping Google from publishing their own app in the App Store when this happens, much like how Bing has their own Maps app or Vimeo has an app even though YouTube is pre-installed on iOS.

In fact, that might even be better for Google. They've griped in the past about how Apple was slow to implement new features.

In particular, I know they hated the YouTube app (which Apple made). That's why the mobile site no longer redirects to the app - they wanted to be able to control the experience and iterate faster.

(I suspect the only reason Google hasn't terminated their agreement on the preinstalled apps already is because having YouTube and Google Maps on every single iOS device is worth more than fast integration of new features.)
German bookstore Lehmanns, known for academic books, is selling Vi, Emacs, Linux, BSD and Latex reference mugs. They even got one with the number Pi and e on it.

For example, the Vi mug:
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Latex:
http://www.lehmanns.de/shop/mathematik-informatik/7361330-97...
I don't know what the etiquette is for re-posting a blog comment, but this raises a good question:

So can Royal Bank of Scotland now launch a UDRP against
Google for owning googleroyalbankofscotland.com?

Anyone knows the answer to this?
I don't hear too often that anything exciting is being developed in China so I think it's great for them. I expect more of this in the future.

I just don't think having the most secure quantum cryptographic communication system is the type of technology they would gladly want to share with the rest of world. Sooner or later, the secret service (do they have one?) or military will be involved. Will we see another Cold War-ish information technology race?
I believe there are already standard documents, e.g. the huge binder the receptionist was referring to in the OP certified by a few "trusted experts", i.e. lawyers. The question is by whom are these experts trusted, which in practice means who employs them. How would people get a list of these experts (government intervention?)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3958794
Seems like that could leave a nice side effect of shortening contracts.
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I'm not aware of the current state of the law regarding software, but the interpretation of copyright that requires a license before the work can even be used for its intended purpose strikes me as unproductive and counterintuitive. What is the point of all the law surrounding authorized distribution if distribution doesn't implicitly grant the legitimate recipient the right to use the work (e.g. book, movie, or application) as it was designed to be used?
I've found it very useful on more than one occasion, but that's not why it's so important. Rather it's that as a result of their Street View mapping Google has developed an extremely accurate map database of even obscure corners of the world which in turn has allowed them to offer turn-by-turn navigation for those areas.
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Not that I really disagree with you, but to wax platonic, maybe that the people who both rule the world and are nerds aren't really acting as perfect nerds as they rule the world?
Is replicability the same as scalability?
Hey everyone. I’m having these few hours on a bus ride and have been pondering on some question for some time. I’m participating in some sort of business training event here in Lithuania. It’s supposed to train me into doing business. Their target is that after this project we’d have as much companies as possible. There are 70 participants, around 15 local angels/coaches and even some well known local tech. companies that are probably fishing for young talent. Also we have visits by Imperial College London professors that are evaluating our workshops and giving us valuable advice. Kinda nice.

Now to the point - we’ve been analyzing and discussing some different business models. One of main points is the scalability of business. Everyone talks about it. It’s always asked about when grinding an idea. Thus comes my problem. In all the cases that we analysed - I didn’t see scalability. I saw replicability. Maybe I had problems communicating the difference, but to me it’s clear. If a business model is scalable we have this single one for all product or service whose ability to provide value is independent of any of the parameters. Now if it is replicable we kind of have different products, that may be very similar, but have a varying parameter in them. For example - language, or location. These are the only ones that come to mind right now and I’m so eager to publish this question, that I can’t think for a while now.
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This one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
That would be Placebase http://blogs.computerworld.com/14835/apple_purchased_mapping...
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Perhaps, I hadn't thought that any significant security issues had been found in recent versions. Are there any I should be concerned about? If not, my reasoning is that I don't want to break what is working perfectly fine for me as is.

After looking at https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firef... there doesn't seem that there are any to be concerned about. However, in case you are right, I'm recompiling a more recent version of Firefox.
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It was this:

http://www.slashgear.com/apple-acquires-c3-technologies-for-...

It looks a lot like Google Earth. Google can just integrate Google Earth into the mobile maps to compete. They've already done it on the web version.
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Please just get away from your not-native Todoist app. It's slow, it's not pretty. It's the opposity of the awesome web interface. I used Todoist for a long time , but with time and the increase of my mobile usage(due to iPhone) i needed a decent iPhone app. Just make a decent, beautiful iPhone app, believe me lots of people like me will converse and move to Todoist.

(off-topic: Keep up the great work amix. I've learned lot from you programming blog).
It just breaks down on so many levels. So the client is a bear, and the developer is setting up camp, and the salesperson draws a bear into the cabin which destroys all of the developer's hard work.

So the real-world analogy would be that the developer is setting up an architecture (which performs similar to a camp - as a staging point for reaching goals), and the business guy brings in a client that then...what? Destroys the architecture? Invalidates it in some way?

It doesn't follow. A better analogy would be that the developer is digging a pit to catch a bear in, and the business guy finds a bear that's too big to fit into the hole. In that case, you have an instance where no one is at fault and there's simply an unshared assumption about the limits of how big the bear can and can't be.

But that doesn't make for as exciting of a blog post.
It takes one bad apple to ruin it for the bunch, as they say.

That said, I lived and worked for a few years in a country where IQ tests were the norm for hiring people. When hiring for my own team (C++ devs), I did not use them as I found they were a very poor filter with both high false positives and high false negatives in terms of indicating whether or not you should hire a particular person.
Anecdotal data point: I've just had a look at Street View to plan a short trip to a part of town I've never been before. I use it to look at complex crossroads where I need to take a turn so it will look familiar when I get there. I do not use a GPS for that kind of trips (it would be overkill.) So for me Street View is what makes google maps so useful.
Apple acquired Placebase in 2009, Poly9 in 2010, and C3 Technologies in 2011. I cannot imagine not replacing a 3rd party product when a company buy 3 companies for the same product, particularly if the 3rd party product is owned by a competitor.
As said in another reply, you don't want that on your production server, pyc files are a useful optimization. You should delete all pyc files when you change three code, though.
I wonder if that appstore version of Google Maps could be blocked under "duplication of functionality"?
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But doesn't Apple tend to reject apps that duplicate OS features? Or has that changed?
I assume you're referring to BigCo, or even just a non-startup. If you're referring to a startup, I have to disagree with you -- revenue in the door when you're starting out, even if you have to alter your product, is invaluable. In fact, you'll likely have to alter the product from the original vision to get revenue in the door period :)
If you simply regard this as the prototype for a typical day, and not a script that's intended to handle all possible atypical scenarios, then there is no problem for it. As to 4am - 6pm, it's not like he's working solid in that timeframe. He's got personal time (kids, gym, etc) worked in there as well.

All of that is beside the point, however, as this is the schedule that works for HIM. If it doesn't work for you (or if structured schedules in general do not work for you) then you are quite free to simply move along.
I would love the ability to create my own toolbox based off of the sites you link. The basic idea would be I login, select the sites that I use and then can see them via my account, or link other people via citricsquid.thetoolbox.cc or something. For now I can load up the page and scroll through and remember which are useful with relative ease, but if you get to the point where there are hundreds or thousands of tools listed then it'll be hard to find the ones I like.

Great work so far, submitted 2 sites.
> If Apple does switch to their own maps, I'm sure Google will come out with their own independent Google Maps app in the App Store, like they have for Google+ and other products.

I thought Apple does not allow apps competing with the "core" apps.
Standard, IANAL and TINLA, plus things will depend on where you are.

But my guess is that probably no - you signed everything else but not that - that's not acting as if you agreed to something, that's acting in a way that differentiates that document.

Had you signed nothing (that is treated everything the same) but carried out your duties, accepted pay and so on then you're more likely to have been bound by it along with everything else.

Ideally of course you would have stated clearly that you weren't signing it - it's still a bit ambiguous - though the overriding thing is that it's normally too expensive and too much effort for companies to enforce them anyway, especially if there is ambiguity.

Worth noting that in a lot of countries (for instance the UK and I believe the EU generally), non-compete clauses, certainly the generic sweeping ones, usually aren't binding as they're a restraint of trade and therefore violate competition law.
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You are, of course, right but up to a point: I believe in situations where politicians are widely blamed, the real problem lies elsewhere (typical example: EU economic crises). Politicians are trying to operate under many different constraints, economic, populist, etc., some do a better job than others.

In order to break the chicken and egg problem, a more effective way, I think, is to inform the public. For example, in this case how many people have even thought about what that consent signature means (I signed a form like that just yesterday) but if the consequences are made widely known than the public may pressurize the politicians to make changes. Nothing gets the attention of those guys as public opinion.
No it really doesn't matter. It wasn't so much a complaint, and I didn't intend for it to seem that way. I just didn't understand the reasoning behind it. It's not something that I dislike about the Mozilla team. Just something that is unusual in the development community.
still on the front-page of HN as we speak!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3955146
To me, using navigation on the phone would be more of a convenience than a matter of savings.

The 99 euro GPS I was talking about was the cheapest in store and it even had Traffic Message Channel (TMC), something the older one didn't.

Also, the GPS would get super hot in the windshield -- I would have never used my phone instead!

Anyhow, all that out of the way, I guess you are right that turn by turn would be nice on iOS.
Here's how Nokia did it: http://youtu.be/emKttWFcJ_g (simplistically)
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> Is there some reason that this is the case?

The app is made by Apple, not Google, though it is using Google's API. So it isn't really "Google" Maps.
Really?! Is this why estimates for software cost and development time sooooo on the money?