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> The thing is – and what the apple fans are all afraid of (but few may admit) is that this isn't just a stumble, but rather, the first major indicator of what a post-Steve Jobs Apple product experience is like.

I'm not afraid of it because it's bullshit. Where do we lay the blame for the YouTube app then? Or the huge engineering problems with the original MacBook Air? When Steve Jobs tried to kill iTunes for Windows and the App Store, how was he looking out for the user experience? I have little doubt the much-derided contacts app for Mac and iPad was a direct order from SJ. His influence was a mixed bag.

The only people who deify Steve Jobs' every move in Apple like that are people that aren't actually fans or aren't actually paying attention. Steve Jobs had a great vision, but he made bad decisions and good ones. As long as Apple is still doing exponentially better this week than last week, and they are, then the naive ones in this equation are the ones placing any amount of weight on "post-Jobs Apple" yet. We aren't even close to that.
It looks to me like the same vector Charlie Miller showed off a couple of months ago. The NFC Forum responded at the time along the lines of "It's not an NFC thing," and said his demonstration "underscores the importance of providing appropriate security measures at the application layer and enabling users to adjust security settings to suit their own needs and preferences"

http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/08/01/317100/forum-responds-to-...
The title is bit deceiving. IMHO there is nothing like "Learn a Little Code". Its like saying 20% prostitute or 5% pregnant. Its either a programmer or not.
Very happy to help - I use apps like this perhaps 5 times a day so I have an interest in making them the best I can. Drop me a line.

PS, it's definitely the default zoom level. That and the Bookmarks would benefit as being Stars as they are more akin to Favorites. Took me a while to figure that. But again, I can't speak for everyone of course.
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This submission is just wrong. Sure, the new maps suck, but really? Who is upvoting such a crap?
According to the article the SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) is the exclusive rights holder of the clock design.
6 reasons travellers should be wary of Maps in iOS 6
I have, but totally forgot about them. Thanks for reminding me. I'll try them next time.
Sorry to resurrect after three days... I think it might be worth saying something upfront. I agree that you shouldn't be precise and say how much you're looking for, there's no need to throw away a negotiating point early. But something in the cover letter that hand-wavingly made it clear that you understand that startup salaries are lower might help.

For example, "I'm looking for something that pays me back in work I enjoy, rather simply financially like my current high-boredom, high-remuneration City job".

...OK, that's pretty terrible. But something along those lines, maybe?
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What is 'wrong' with this blog post?
Having seen Coverity's results, I would agree with that article. Particularly cogent are the social problems and how they play out.
It's just a rectangle with very round corners.
Arguable, but there is something to be said for pushing it out there. Maybe it would have been better as a staggered release, but it's not like they need to wait for the next update to solve these problems. These are all issues with server-side map quality, which can be updated on-the-fly.

We can only hope they're aggressively removing dead POIs and adding new ones. If it has been a week and nothing has changed for anyone, I would start to worry.
I think you have to look 'up' the stream. Physics has given statistics some of the biggest ideas in the recent past. I think biology is relatively mathless unless it's *omics crap, and then again you have non-statisticians contributing to stats. Also plenty of CS stuff for stats.
So if the majority in a specific city or state wanted to pass laws denying minorities or women the right to vote, would it still get passed?

The founding fathers of the US knew what they were doing when they wrote the constitution.
We feel alright! There's been a number of well-funded, well-run companies entering our space recently.
Swiss Federal Railways Says Apple Copied Its Iconic Railway Clock
Lack of appealing templating was the last technical thing holding me back from experimenting more with client side. Damn, I'm slowly running out of excuses ;-)
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Am I the only one who likes a more minimalistic prompt?

I've used a simple $ with color for su/root and now I have the two liner:

user@hostname:<path>
$ ls

I like the user@hostname as I often ssh to different machines and the path is nice to have sometimes but I don't want the clutter.

Having the whole git info in the path would annoy me, it feels like clutter just because you can?

Am I alone with this?
This is really great - some additional suggestions:

- When you're submitting a patent application you are required to have done a prior art search and list found prior art.

- law firms providing patent services often outsource prior art searches (more and more also to India etc)

- companies attacked with "Jules Verne patents" or overly broad patents often pay large amounts to find most relevant prior art

Suggestions:

(1) alloy users to put up bounties for finding prior art on existing / pending patents or for technology areas. I believe bounties should be starting with about $5K up to $100k+

(2) pay out those bounties based on a particular formula - e.g. when usable results top 5/ best answers get shares of the bounty pool - e.g. best answer 35%, 2nd 20%, 3rd 15%, 4th 10%, 5th 10%, 6th 10%

(3) Similar to bounties this could also be done via a sponsoring system
The scenario you propose doesn't provide a strategic benefit to TomTom because it does not address TomTom's long term disadvantage relative to Google and other companies in the mobile navigation space. Google's and Apple's mobile mapping services run on devices which can communicate data back to their services.

TomTom's problem is that their devices only communicate one direction. A partnership with Apple could have allowed TomTom to collect realtime data directly in the same way as their major competitors.

In the next twelve months, Apple will probably have collected more useful data than TomTom in many respects. That doesn't mean they will be successful in using it to their advantage, but it does mean that there is little reason for Apple to purchase a new dataset.
We are US only at the moment. http://blog.lumatic.com/post/31800648260/preparing-for-wedne...

We're legally HQ'd in Singapore and funded by Joi Ito, so SG and TYO are near-term as should be london, sydney, toronto, and vancouver. I hope to be 2k+ cities this time next year. what's important to you?
There are a few ways. The most control is via hijacking the connection, the most direct is to close the body of the reader (eg. r.Body.Close()) but the best way is to set the "Connection" header to "close" on your writer.

eg. w.Header().Set("Connection", "close") in the handler func.

If you set this, the http package should close the connection for you after it is done processing your current request. You can and usually should call this up front in your handler, it won't close the connection immediately. I prefer this to trying to manually close the connection because it should work despite the function exit point (sort of like a defer without the defer).

It is probably also worth boosting your fd count, because if you're flooded with connections you still might hit the limit faster than you can close the connections. At the very least you may want to do the sorts of things web servers like apache do: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/fd-limits.html (Setrlimit is available in Go's syscall package and may help you out here).
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If there's no jailbreak available for the iPhone 5 in the next year or so I might find myself buying a non-Apple smartphone for the first time ever.
However Teller does have a problem with it. He doesn't want him to sell the trick, and the trick that is occurring has nothing to do with the performance.
Google is also clever by not releasing a maps app right away. What better way to show the strength of google than let users bitch about how bad apple map is.
How is this different from Everyme?

From Everyme.com "We believe most stories are meant to be shared with your family and best friends". Isn't the goal of Origami the exact same thing?

Why not build the Origami features into Everyme and make it a better product?

To me, this is a sign that they're loosing focus. Either that or Everyme is not doing very well and they are just pivoting... somehow.
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Change doesn't often happen in huge leaps and bounds. If you wait for huge leaps and bounds to occur before you endorse a change, you'll never get any change at all.

This at least brings attention to the issue, and has the support of Google (and, I bet, other tech companies large and small in the coming days) and the USPTO. Before today, would you have expected so large a community as SE to create a website specifically dedicated to reviewing patents, of all things? The scale of this site and its supporters should show that this is a growing issue, and it's only going to garner more attention through Ask Patents.

One big advantage a site like Ask Patents gives us is the ability to quote numbers and statistics. Consider an argument like this being presented to Congress. 75% of the 500,000 patent filings in 2013 were found by Ask Patents to contain claims on prior art, and were rejected by the USPTO. Each of these cost an examiner two work days to review the application, prior art submissions, and process the rejection. That adds up to <insert math here>, or a whole lot of money! Clearly we need to enforce fees on rejected patents to cut down on government spending.

I wholeheartedly support this idea and would love to see it take off.
The title for one. It's disrespectful and stupid.

And it's plain wrong.

Steve was alive when the G3 iBooks had thousand units recalled for logic board problems. Steve was alive when the Mac Pro oozed some green cooling liquid. Steve was alive when they had problems with (Sony) batteries and have to recall them. Still was alive when the created Ping. Steve was alive when they made the menubar translucent. Steve was alive when Lion had several problems to lots of users. Etc etc...

It's a BS notion that anything wrong with Apple is because somehow Steve isn't here. Especially when the Maps have a perfectly valid explanation: Apple had to prepare something quick, because the couldn't use Google Maps anymore for political/contractual/competitive whatever reasons...

It's not as if mapping the planet electronically and with information that changes is an easy job, else somebody else besides Google would have also done it. It takes years, tons of money, cutting edge tech and the like.
I meant "much better" than what Apple already has.

I don't think it will be easy for them to catch up (it would be absurd to say that they can have something better than Google Maps in such a short time).

What bothers me a lot, is that most people blame the data errors to the algorithms or ability of the team to create good software. You can have the best coders in the world, and if they have data that is not good, they can only algorithmically clean it so much.

Google has several vehicles that they drive around and collect all kinds of information themselves. Sure you can hire Navteq (or in Apple's case, TomTom aka TeleAtlas) to go around and do it for you. Guess what? When you license products from either of those companies that means you are relying on their editors. That means no fancy object recognition geotagged image that you can send to a support vector machine to flag an area as needed revision... the product you get from that licensing is the vector line with the attributes already attached to them. So that is what you work with.

Google has an entire army in India, using Google-made custom editing tools that do these things. Unless Apple builds the same, they will always be behind. Can Apple do it? Sure! They have the cash and the talent. Will they? It is up to them to decide if investing 400 million into their mapping infrastructure is worth it. I think it is.
I think that Scala's doc website is actually pretty nice.

http://docs.scala-lang.org/

With that being said, I agree with the others...I prefer a simple and easy layout like Go's website over some pretty typography and new hip layout. Most people going to the website are going for API docs I would assume, and you want API docs to be fast loading and minimal.
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OSX was based on code from FreeBSD and NetBSD and not Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X#History and Apple has used plenty of open source solutions (gcc, samba come to mind ). Not to mention putting money and resources behind opensource projects such as llvm and webkit.

I do believe that dumping Google was a strategic decision and I'm perfectly O.K. with that. The world is full of products that are shaped more with business decisions that technical ones. What remains to be seen however is how quickly they will address the shortcomings of their map data.
In regards to "Where did my university’s buildings go?" (http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/post/31928845471/where-...), it does bother me that so many universities have provided specific map details to Google (see http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/02/map-your-campus-a...), but not OSM.
Very true. If I were them, I'd wait a while and make some ads before launching their app.
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They'll have to. They make money on map advertising anyway, not being on iOS anymore is a big chunk of the market.

Unless you believe the Google fanboys, who think Google should exploit this to drive Android sales.

In the end it's better than the previous situation for iPhone users, because instead of a stagnant mapping application that wasn't updated for years for political reasons, we'll have competition now - as long as Apple is willing to accept Google Maps on their App Store, which I think they would, since there are many already (even a TomTom one).
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Nokia-Microsoft is a better fit than Apple-anyone. Apple is suing Samsung upon whom the rely for major components.

The relationship with Google came apart when Apple would not allow Google Voice on the iPhone.

http://betanews.com/2009/08/03/eric-schmidt-leaves-apple-s-b...
So...they're paying homage to the clock face.
I would say, like the calculator on the iPhone, they are paying homage to that design.
While I think this could be a good thing in theory, exposing such a low level crypto interface is likely to end in pain. How many people can combine the building blocks into something secure? And MITM/XSS still give up the keys to the castle.

I'd much rather see a simple high-level interface to crypto in the browser.
1. Is the design protected?
2. Has anyone confirmed Apple did not license this from whoever holds the rights to the design?
Something else to read in my free time now :)
The beauty of this: Apple is definitely going to sell record numbers of the iPhone 5, shitty maps or not. And when they eventually do claw their way back to being on par with Google's maps, people will act like they invented maps themselves and all will be forgiven.
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I would say tribute, not copy. The calculator app resembles the 1977 Braun calculator: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2007/07/iphones-design/.
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He said how far off. And from the sounds of it: Not all that far.

As you say, 70's era is only a magnitude way. And so they need some new materials - that will come.

I'm sure there are people aching to be able to make, e.g. MOS 6502's at home just for the sake of doing it.
Yah that's the problem... I don't have a CA license. I'm a student but I'm from a different state, whose voter registration says to register to vote in CA. Oh well... mail works.
Does Apple have a Maps program on the Android devices? Are there other Maps programs available on the iOS devices? Saying Apple is 'forcing' users onto their product is a bit much.
It is either the classic problem of floating point precision or just data a data collection error. See my other answer.
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Nice. very useful gem.
You can get elevation data for North America from USGS:
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The reason we are building a new product is because families are a very complex thing. Everyme is being used for a whole bunch of different use-cases, so we feel we would be doing our users a disservice by changing the product to be just for family.

Families need tools built just for them, so that is why we made the decision to build a new product in Origami. If anything, I think this makes us more focused.
A little more info here. The design is still protected and Swiss Railways will certainly end up with some nice cash from this:

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/Apple_takes_a_bite_of_S...
IOS6 clock images here: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/06/11/new-in-ios-6-a-new-c...

Swiss Railway clock images here: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=swiss+railway+clock&tbm...
IOS6 maps fail so hard, a Tumblr is born
That's because Apple decided that the correct way to handle a crash is to give no error message at all to the user, and just close the app. ;)
I know the author mentions "Ok, I admit: The question that serves as the headline for this post seems on the surface a bit absurd, if not downright crazy." at the beginning but still, I don't think he really gives much valid evidence to what his underlying point is. No offense to him, but I don't give really give much credit to his case just because of how his two children (16 year old son and 13 year old daughter) use Facebook. Esp when he says himself, they are just 2 users of the ~1 billion...
Not rhetorical.
Just as Steve never allowed a Japan launch with a botched autocomplete feature, he never let the phone ship without standard emoticons support, he never let a phone application that crashes when taking calls go through, just as he never would have replaced a locally working voice control system with a half botched network based voice assistant.

Apple's 1.0 products were all just so polished until now.

This is the first time perhaps that the new feature has to match solid expectations, but it's still a 1.0 feature.
Sorry for the tone, but why all the drama on something that isn't either a surprise nor a unfixable problem...
I don't see this adequately defending against MITMs or XSS. You can still hook all the crypto primitives, inject new keys, or pull out existing keys from the same origin.

This scares me; a lot of people are going to assume this is secure against attacks that it simply isn't there to defend against.
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Thanks Timothee, you're right. Google's name for their Picasa albums product is "Web Albums" and the one the author in OP is talking about was by Pixite (not Google). But still, it has much higher user ratings and should rank higher.
reference: http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...
Yes, indeed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Douyfa7l8

This is new development though and only on the Google Earth product for mobile, not in the maps app. Maps app for Android has those blocky untextured 3d buildings in select areas.
I think the point is that maps is, conceptually, a successful product. Steve, given his rep for attention to detail, presumably would not have allowed this product out the door in its current state.
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From the two quick reads I've given it, not a fan.

On the plus side: building this stuff directly into the browser image may prevent people from deploying Javascript Cryptography, which is unsafe in every environment. Systems built on the Web Cryptography bindings are at least anchored to trusted implementations of algorithms already resident in the browser.

On the minus side:

* These interfaces may have the opposite effect. Mass-market websites must support all popular browser versions. For the foreseeable future, we won't have a market in which the majority of browsers implement something like this. Unfortunately, the web crypto API is something that is very easy to duplicated "cosmetically" in Javascript. So the net effect of this in the medium term is probably negative. That said, I also understand that we've got to rip off the band-aid sometime.

* The interface is low-level. I appreciate that an API like this naturally wants to be low-level, to maximize the number of things you can build on top of it. But most of the things you could build on these particular building blocks will have subtle vulnerabilities. Not only that, but the interface doesn't appear to provide even the "envelope" abstraction that other low-level libraries present.

* So much of this design is low-level that enough of the security of the system is left to content-controlled Javascript, so many (perhaps most) of the systems that rely on this library are going to have exactly the same problem as they do now.

* The low-level building blocks they provide are incoherent. If you wanted to just expose all the little knobs and wires that it could take to implement pre-existing (and broken) crypto standards, then an interface which pretends that AES-CBC and AES-GCM are two different ways to do the same thing makes some sense; some systems need GCM, and some need CBC, and you don't have to give much thought to the difference. But this library doesn't even do that; for instance, it doesn't look like callers control the nonce in AES-CTR. A good way to sum this up: if this API succeeds in the market, there are going to be deployed, widely used systems that use RSA for bulk encryption.

If I was elected Archduke of Browser Crypto, the first standard I would propose would be a simple authenticated AES-encrypted envelope format; something like, PBKFD2-keyed HMAC-SHA256-authenticated AES-CBC messages. Something impossible to screw up, because Javascript authors aren't asked to make design decisions.
I think you nailed it: school isn't optimized for creativity, it's optimized for creating workers. But I don't think that just applies to the factories of the 19th century.

The highest institutional rewards are given to the students who most effectively suppress their own desires, just like in the workplace. The students I knew in school who excelled at school didn't enjoy going to class, doing homework, or the challenge of memorizing answers for a test that they would forget as soon as the test was over. Most of them were smart, but the key ingredient was their ability to suppress their own desires. And I have no doubt that they have been successful in the workplace for the exact same reason.
They are my scripts and I don't need "protection" from myself. Users don't use the command line so it isn't particular relevant to them - this is relevant to developers.

I fully agree it shouldn't be an option, and that generally being highly configurable is a way of abdicating responsibility for making the right choices in the first place, and ensures that not everything is tested (there will be too many combinations of settings).

In this particular case I just think Apple chose the wrong behaviour.