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Let's compare the time-frame.

Last time the iPhone had such a changelist was in june 2010. The S2 came out 12 months prior to the S3.

When you only release one phone every 24 months people are right to expect more.

That, or you could compare the S2 with S3 against the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S...
I have to be honest, it doesn't look like anyone is taking this seriously. Not even a little bit.
You're yelling at the wrong guy. What @debacle said was "You can't use process to turn a bad programmer into a mediocre one - any process that does will also turn a great programmer into just a mediocre one." That's decidedly not "cowboy programmer bullshit". If your response was directed at @fingerprinter's statement that "having nothing and good developers you trust is always going to be more productive", then maybe you should have been rude to him instead of @debacle.

I think @debacle nailed it. One of the major problems with all the processes I've ever seen is that people (large corporations, mostly) expect them to solve the problem of having teams made of bad or mediocre programmers. It's quite similar to the idea that you can solve just about any problem with technology.
iOS6 adds file upload support for images.

What I don't get is why facebook has to be an app at all. If you build it as a purely browser-based app, you can get better performance than running it in a UIWebView, and updates can be pushed out without anyone's permission. With HTML5 app cache you can get the "instant launch" experience that a native app gives you. For interacting with the camera they could have used a helper app.

Why are people so desperate to put their free non-ad-supported apps in apple's app store? It doesn't make any sense to me. I recently built an offline web app using sencha touch, and it works great. No install necessary, just "add to homescreen".
I don't think they are betting heavily against NFC or that passbook is superior to NFC. I think Apple sees more profit potential in leveraging Apple IDs for payment and they are cautiously hoping it will take off faster then NFC but won't hesitate to swap NFC chips in if that starts to see widespread adoption.
You're comparing brands and not features here.

1) iOS apps vs. Android apps is subjective

2) My Android has seamless integration to my Samsung TV and home media as well as laptop and PC via OSS apps and software. Again, we're debating branding at this point whether you want to say your AppleTV is better than my media solution, subjective.

Objectively your points about speed and camera are true though. I'm wont deny its a quick phone but I have to agree with others saying it didn't bring anything innovative or new.
To me it would almost make sense for them to not add their google maps application so that it would make them, like mtalantikite consider switching to Android. I don't know why Google would have much of an incentive to improve iOS when it has it's own operating system to sell.
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This changes everything, again.
The plural of "URL" is "URLs". No apostrophe.

Looks like a neat idea. Not entirely clear what the "cmd-return" is supposed to do. Run a command?
>Many android devices support actual GPS, not just aGPS

Every phone with A-GPS support actual GPS. A-GPS is additional feature on top of regular GPS.
Honestly, as an adult male (with adult male sized hands), a difference of 1 oz and 1mm seems insignificant to me. I suspect those measures are well within the variations caused by different cases. I suppose it could make a difference when the thing is in your pocket all day, but I'm not even sure about that.

The iP5 is clearly thinner and lighter, but does it matter? I don't know, not really to me. Maybe to women and kids.
Due to the nature of compression algorithms using BWT, changing a single byte in the uncompressed data might give you +/- 5 bytes difference in the size of the compressed data; that makes pulling off an attack like this much, much, much more difficult. Don't get me wrong, you'll get variance with deflate as well, but it's nowhere near the level of something like bzip2.

I do a lot of experimentation with new compression techniques for web demos, and I recently implemented my own compression algo from scratch based around the same building blocks as bzip2. The variance I saw was just staggering; a tiny change in my source material would totally warp the output.
Oh geez, you need to see that Louis C.K video about how everything is amazing and nobody is happy.
Have you, personally suffered from depression or are you just making more logical arguments?
Would Apple even permit it? Last I'd heard they were pretty gung-ho on the "No apps that do the same thing as stock apps" thing.
Google has spent a long time pouring a ton of money and manpower into their geocoder and the data behind it. It's completely unsurprising that Apple is not able to match their quality. It will be an iterative process that improves as they get more usage data to leverage.

That said, your example is pretty shocking considering Apple's historically stringent quality standards.
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“A bad system, will defeat a good person, every time.”
-- Deming

I can no longer count how often I heard "you're doing it wrong" when people explain why scrum didn't work for them or when they feel there needs to be something that works 'better'.

Getting Scrum right is hard. Managing huge backlogs is hard. Doing time-based sprint plannings is hard, especially if you are working on stuff that is either new or new to your team.

If you are doing routine work you might as well use waterfall or "jfdi" as your approach. Burn-down charts, velocity and sprint planning doesn't help if you just don't know where the next problem will be or when your team variation changes constantly (people move to other teams, new people join, people get sick, …).

I've found that changing/being able to change the 'system' (scrum) to something else that works better (agile/lean to its roots, kanban, different stand-up meeting format, evidence based time-tracking, value-flow …) is way more effective than changing the people to become 'better' at Scrum and doing it less 'wrong'.

YMMV
> For most people cash, credit, or debit work just fine.

Phones worked just fine for most people in 2006. Phones' screens were just fine in 2009...

Paypass and Paywave are a considerable improvement over chip and PIN or singing a slip of paper. Faster, less fumbling. Necessary, no; an improvement, yes.
Apple has a Transit API which may help reduce the gap.
Digital cables, then?
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This is pretty cool.

On the other hand, stop sucking up all the supply for Raspberry Pis! My order keeps getting delayed and it's making me sad.
I don't even know what to say or do about the top comments here:

"The people ... are declining to use thoughtful discussion to show that they are anything other than blights on humankind."

" It's clear that they're stuck in the Middle Ages, and I don't think any amount of intervention is going to change that."

And plenty more

This kind of sad attitude is exactly what maintains the status quo. This "we invented the internet so we are endlessly right and better than you" attitude.

People are mad because "they/we"[?] created like the most offensive video in a bit (I'm sure if I made a $5 budget video of jesus eating babies there are plenty of people in the Bible belt of the states who'd like to kill me) and just wantonly posted it online and then use the reaction to say that those people are degenerate and inferior and always were and always will be.

Do you have any idea of the greater context? I mean lets start with American meddling in the whole middle east region? Drone strikes on families and funnels and weddings killing entire families. And then downhill from there.

I think people forget to begin with there is some pretty bad american sentiment out there.

Top it with leaked pictures of depraved sexual torture from american POW camps and more desecration of holy books and it suddenly looks like America is working over time to piss people off.

So yes, you take a historically poor, starving and undereducated people and do this to them, and they are going to get violently mad.

But to maintain such disdain towards them just feeds the problem.

We desperately need to engage them, to understand them, to win them over, to promote education and health and food [probably in reverse order].

This kind of arrogant hubris makes me really sad that this supposedly smart community can be so stupid with issues out side of machines and dealing with tolerance and the world as a whole and different societies. Such narrow mindedness is just... well it shows us up to be no better than those we are maligning despite all our supposed advantages

:(
I was in China for a month, there's no way you can get away "living like a westerner" on $0.25 USD/day maybe living like a poor Chinese peasant. But just taking a bus somewhere costs around 15 cents.
For those who may not get this joke:

# One rot13

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# Double rot13

$ echo test | wm --rot13 --words stdin | wm --rot13 --words stdin

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This looks superb -- inspired by MPW?
Please try to refrain from ad hominem attacks. It doesn't help in any way to prove your point.
It's almost like the keynote was specifically made to market a product or something...
I think they relaxed that restriction long ago, hence the variety of browsers, email clients etc available.
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You know that asshole guy who always chimes in uninvited and says that the book is better... I don't want to be that guy.

But I will say that it's absolutely worth reading if you enjoyed the movie at all, though I think the movie has a stronger ending than the original.
Maybe I lack imagination, but even though the tool provides many interesting solutions, it doesn't seem to "scratch an itch" for any problems I need to solve.

The screencast narrator asks a number of intriguing "what if you could XYZ" questions, but it doesn't actually answer them, leaving the listener to come up with useful applications. Well, what if I could do all those things? I would like to have heard more about what higher-level problem(s) these solutions address, and why these are better solutions than what I'm already using. Something motivated the developer(s) to write this, but I can't immediately tell what that motivation was.
No. It's pure marketing.
Can you give an example of one of those licenses?
He's getting spammed pretty hard right now by the right wing.

They posted a few thousand one star reviews on his Yelp page, an I imagine they've been calling him nonstop.

I would wait a couple of weeks for this whole thing to calm down and try again.
Previously posted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4483750

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3506613

As with the last time I tried it, it still doesn't work. Crashes right away trying to read from some tmp file.
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Here's the issue: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128748

I'm a former add-ons product manager for Firefox. I never would have considered something this drastic (after all, Firefox is about choice, so it wouldn't have even been an option), however fake/malicious/rogue add-ons are a massive problem. If Chrome has a kill switch on every single add-on (and not just the ones uploaded to their site), they can do a better job of stopping malicious add-ons.

Add-ons can do a ton of damage, and you'd be amazed how many people click through the install warnings without thinking.
Is there any data on how many of those users spend money on apps?
Or just don't live in the SF / Bay Area. If you want to have a crazy runway for your startup work towards paying off a 250k (or less) house with solar on it just about anywhere else in the US. The counter-argument to this is that being in SF,NY,etc gives you connections, opportunities, etc. but Id rather just not have to worry about coming up with a sizable chunk just to make sure my family has a roof over their heads.
Well, that's the problem with living in a democracy. If most people only feel comfortable when the legislators and judges are fellow Christians and the schools teach creationism, then that's what you're going to get, and depending on your interpretation, maybe that's what you should get.

Perhaps the reason you feel so accosted is because you are don't see proselytizing as important, and consequently, have no support because your fellow believers are so few.
If you're referring to the fact without the connotation then it's more accurate to see it's the basis of all human trade dating to prehistoric times and indeed the basis of all entity relationships in the natural world.
> Not entirely clear what the "cmd-return" is supposed to do. Run a command?

My thought exactly. The website tells me to try the combination, as if advertising a feature, but never ends up telling me what the feature actually is..
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I know they have a 3G agreement, but do they use Verizon's LTE network too? That makes a huge difference.
The same thing happened to me recently on Apple Maps on iOS 5 (Google data) in Chicago. ORD plotted a course to Ord, Nebraska, not O'Hare.
Exactly my thought. Executing any text anywhere, browsing directories with a clip, so much of that demo made me wonder if the author had ever seen Acme or if it was an example of parallel evolution.
What I don't get is why the comments of "meh" are getting attacked with so much vitriol.
ivan: i don't think i was creating or enjoying controversy.

there's no controversy in clarifying differences between 500 & YC, that's just simple transparency.

my goal was to clarify and differentiate 500 in the eyes of potential future founders, and perhaps some press and/or influencers who would carry that story to them as well.

don't really care whether i ruffle feathers from some folks as long as the message was loud & clear.

pretty sure i did that.
and only rationalized as a benefit for creators

The public policy goal is to spread knowledge. If the printing is a critical step, it needs to get done. You're conflating ends and means. It was eg the guttenburg bible that increased the spread of literacy and the use of vernacular language in european history, right?

Ergo Dante: Inferno etc.

In other words, this is constructive criticism. I'm not slighting your observations. The point is that the public policy goal which makes copyright "poltically correct", needs to be articulated clearly and benchmarked for performance. Even in your formulation, it is this what shields it from reform. That's the end [or not].

And so, then the question is: what means [x from the set X] do we pick? Well, we need to look at all the alternatives. The, its ends<=>means + some thought optimaztion or "natural selection" or whatever. Is a different framework.
In photography, the general population probably just wants to take decent photos quickly. A DSLR, much like rsync, is a an awesome, powerful tool ... but probably not the right tool for non-enthusiasts. It might appeal to shutterbugs but that doesn't mean everyone needs or would use a DSLR.

You and I might use a niche feature like rsync, but the people that constantly complain that company X didn't include niche feature Y in product Z is, frankly, ridiculous.
yes, did know that & included it in the original draft.
Many of the things released today were not in the WWDC iOS 6 talks or iOS 6 betas, or were not extended as far.
Is there a list somewhere of these metrics/things which look good/signs of success to have before applying?

If not, care to flesh out a few more?
My thinking is that a company that has $117 billion in cash reserves should be able to make a device that has seemingly impossible features, rather than simple incremental improvements.
I've been using Inconsolata for the past few months and really liking it. RubyMine does not support it at the moment, but it works great in Terminal, Sublime Text 2, Textmate, etc.
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You don't lack imagination, but I bet you didn't really try to think about what you could do.

When you first dive into Linux, you learn that you have a thousand different simple commands. And you feel kinda lost. Then you start using them in ways their programmers never imagined. And you chain them with pipes and do some really cool shit.

You do that because nobody told you what they were for, they just were.
From the Chromium devs: "we're putting the power back in the user's hands by allowing them to control where extensions are installed from. By default, the Chrome Webstore is the only source, but users and administrators will be able to add other safe sources as they see fit."

I don't know if the ability to add other sources has been implemented yet though.
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Excellent, really cool. On OSX, this is what AppleScript and Automator should have been.

Would it be possible to tap into GUI applications via OSX UI Scripting, and maybe mirroring the app's menus with Wiki menus?
But practitioners of every religion claim that their fundamentals are good. Christianity's "fundamentals" are pacifistic too. Turn-the-other-cheek and whatnot. But obviously that doesn't meant that people who are commonly referred to as fundamentalist Christians actually behave that way. Ultimately, the doctrines of the religion are meaningless. People are going to twist them however they like regardless of what is actually said.
IE10's chakra engine parallelizes interpreted javascript execution (on page load) with JIT compilation and garbage collection. So you can have up to three cores at work executing javascript even without web workers. Meanwhile, the rendering subsystem offloads to the GPU, and the whole thing can exist multiple times for multiple tabs, potentially involving dozens of cores executing your web apps.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/13/advances-in-ja...
I can't say that I've used it much, but the traffic data doesn't seem to be as full in terms of coverage as Google Maps. I just did a side by side comparison of traffic in both Google and Apple Maps:

Apple is reporting heavy traffic only on Flatbush, Atlantic, and the BQE (major traffic arteries for those not familiar with Brooklyn).

Google is reporting what Apple has, plus traffic patterns on a lot of other local avenues (3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, Vanderbilt, Fulton, Union St, etc).
"Hitting a bit" doesn't count, you'd have to think outside of established verticals - curing cancer would be a major healthcare breakthrough, but it's something like a 3 on that scale, no more.

For that, you'd have to think seriously big - doubling our expected lifespan is important, but it wouldn't bring that much of a change in our planet. A significantly improved homo sapiens species may qualify. Or a way to keep us going on forever - permanently fixing or replacing our bodies. Or a way to "upload" skills to brains, matrix-style.

6 is not making the current condition slightly more bearable - it's transferring us to a radically different state.
Swap is usually no bigger than two or three times your RAM. Disk in general is 10 to 100 times the size of your RAM.
I think you are forgetting that Google doesn't sell its OS. The point of Android is to enable more eyeballs to their products since eyeballs = ad dollars. So Google will do whatever they can to get users on the Google platform (which is exactly why Google+ is great on iOS).

Maps has a huge local revenue opportunity for Google. It has user intent, most of the searches are commercial, you know the user's tastes and hangouts (through past searches), and the user is addressable (since they are close to the item of interest). This means high CPC rates (or equivalent) if you can deliver a real ad product. Thus, I'd bet pretty strongly that a maps product will be coming to iOS since Google would hate to risk losing those valuable eyeballs.
Classic engineer. I'm talking about across a product. It's true that within your core group, you are given leeway, but the buck stops there.
Chrome is generally not about maximizing user choice/control, so from their POV maybe it made more sense to excise the old code.
Exactly. I was really looking forward to p2p payments over NFC phones.
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The scare quotes are unnecessary. This really is a security feature and will undoubtedly help vast numbers of people.

A switch would be fine, though. You might submit a patch for that.
I've been a long time lurker on HN and just signed up because of this survey. I appreciate you posting this and hopefully I'll run into someone with similar goals/mindset as me.

EDIT: I just noticed that after filling out the form, I never actually get a hyperlink to the google document. Can you post this?
So you think it is stupid of people to want manufacturers to make good technology. Got it. In the mean time, I am going to go ahead and keep hoping that tech gets better, and that manufacturers put good things in new devices - because you know what, they are my dollars, and I get to say what I want in a device before I spend them.

You know what is equally tiring, companies saying "you want existing tech in the products we build? Too bad, you will take what we give you and like it", instead of you know, building things people want to spend money on.
Almost certainly substantially less than iOS users, which I suppose is the point you were going for, but I think that whole rabbit hole is a red herring.

The model of "sell apps to people for money" no longer works. We've depleted that gold mine (or vespene geyser, if you will). The only people who are having any fun on mobiles right now are services with mobile portals (think Yelp, AirBnb, eBay, etc) and sketchier-than-not "social gaming" apps.
Hey look! It's a PS Vita without the backside touch interface or media card reader! ;-)
I actually liked the original squid ending better, but that's another one of those personal opinions that some asshole guy always has to chime in with. There were definitely some good differences that made each a unique and worthwhile experience, but I would say that the differences more or less left the mental disorders untouched.
I am calling bullshit.

Amazing Fact (TM): I've been throwing right-handed for my whole life. Make me throw lefty and I throw like a girl. Something to do with an urgent need to get base runners out.

Another Amazing Fact (TM): If you play catch with an Aussie, notice their motion will be more overhanded than yours, if you are a Yank.

It's nurture not nature here. Go get a softball and try to fast pitch. I bet there's a girl nearby that could beat you.
Arguably, it's a mental disorder when it's preventing a normal lifestyle. Normal lifestyles are rarely healthy. But you can't really say someone is abnormal unless it's causing them to lead an abnormally unhealthy lifestyle.
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Well, looks like I won't be upgrading to iOS 6 any time soon. I rely heavily on Google's transit directions when I'm visiting new cities.
I wouldn't call NFC an irrelevant feature.
Benchmarks don't matter one bit, because they just measure "raw" power. These platforms (iOS and Android) use different operating systems, and they implement graphics routines, animations, drawing, etc. wildly differently. So, X could have a 30% more powerful GPU than Y, but the "perceived" speed of X could be less than Y. That's why iPhone was so much smoother than Android before 4.1.