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I totally agree on java logging. Lambdas would be nice. Checked exceptions? I love them.

Lastly Eclipse is THE best thing since sliced bread. I LOL'ed when you mentioned vim/emacs in the same sentence. Have you actually used Eclipse on a big code base? It's introspection is such a productivity booster. I've not used jetbrains in a decade, but nothing else out there beats it, hands down. Both in terms of speed and quality.
>Interns signed some kind of overly general internship / employment contract that included some form of non-compete which he's leveraging to strengthen his lawsuit.

That doesn't seem to be the case here, from TFA. It seems that it's more of a general IP infringement claim.
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But you're still going to buy Apple because that is what all of your rich and trendy friends use.

I have never owned an Apple product. The main reason for this is related to class and/or culture and financial circumstances. My family was always very frugal and on the lower side of middle class.

And honestly I'm frugal and so when I buy devices I am focused on value and bought a laptop with a good graphics card and other features that I put Linux and Windows on. Also I am not comfortable around people so I have pretty much no friends. If I had more friends in web development I might have felt an overwhelming peer pressure to buy a Mac.

The point is that these decisions are not actually based on technical merit, not for me or for Apple fans, because that's not how humans make decisions. We need to be very careful to take a step back every now and again and make a conscious effort to correct trends towards a more rational basis.

The Apple ecosystem is generally more polished, that is true. However, its also very much closed compared to other systems like Google's and outdated in some ways. For example, Objective-C is a ridiculous over-complex relic and it is very embarrassing that so many people waste their time with it.

Its obvious that we need to focus our attention and money on more egalitarian and open businesses. And pretty soon, even the most open and inexpensive products and services are not going to be a good value as better knowledge and data sharing becomes more practical and popular.

The future is open, knowledge-based (some derivative of KR) operating systems where machine code isn't even allowed. The future is knowledge-based programming language and platform development and evolution. The future is ubiquitous open cross platform applications. The future is content-oriented peer to peer web knowledgebases and applications. The future is open source phones that you print out in 3d on your desk.

The future of technology is open, distributed, cohesive and yet decoupled, mature, substantive, and egalitarian. Apple is none of these things.
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No screenshots. Just fluff.
Microsoft releases fix for Internet Explorer security hole, full patch Friday
My favorite joke in that vein is

"I had a problem and thought to use Java - now I have a ProblemFactory"
The JVM is usually heralded as one of the good things about Java. What's wrong with it?
This is a great piece. I'm doing a lot of testing for advertising right now, and the emotional rollercoaster - no matter how sanely you attempt to approach it - can be pretty intense. It's good to see someone writing about that side of the process!
Your kids as just finding out that people that talk too much about themselves are boring. On facebook there is an army of people ready to post what they ate for breakfast, what they saw on TV, and so on. These people just want an audience to watch what they are doing (mostly uninteresting stuff heh).
Nestle Embeds GPS Trackers in KitKat Bars for Promotional Campaign
A friend of mine I haven't talked to in awhile told me that he deleted his facebook. He said that any of the people he actually wants to be in contact with have his phone number and can catch up with him that way. The thing is though, we live on other sides of the country. I'm not really the kind of guy that randomly calls up his friends just to see how they're doing. There really aren't any other reasons to talk to him, so we just end up not talking.

With my friends that are on Facebook though, I can read what they're doing, they can see what I'm doing, and we can comment and talk about it. Oh, you saw a movie? I also saw that movie, wasn't it good/bad/funny/whatever?

Also, the groups and events on Facebook are just fantastic for planning things. I went on a trip with some friends from college a couple weeks ago. We all live in different parts of the country and coordinating something like that would have been a nightmare without Facebook. We made a group and used it to post all the information about when our flights were leaving, what hotel we'd be staying at. It was really really convenient.

If you're annoyed with your friends posting stupid stuff, just ignore the news feed. There are dozens of other reasons to use facebook.
My first thought was that it's ridiculous to assume pilots would ever be reliant on Apple Maps when trying to land their aircraft.

Then I remembered a few similar occurrences:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoce...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDgC4FMftpg

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Queensland-Floods-Helicopter-...
Apple needs to stop taking credit

How are they taking credit for the jailbroken ecosystem? I've never heard Apple once mention jailbreaking in any marketing context. (Really, in any official context at all.)
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Somewhere, there's an intern with "While at Apple, developed state of the art automated feature identification algorithms for mapping team" on his resume.
Apps+ - it's free Google Maps basic, with a 2.99 unlock for added features.
Yeah, the article was pretty weak, I agree. The author was clearly reaching for something to write about the subject.

But the NFL opening up this footage is bad-ass!
awesome app. love the integration with apple maps for transit here in chicago.
yes, it was a press button wait a minute, when the OTA update was finally released to you. I waited 4 days to get the OTA on my Galaxy Nexus. My iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS all were able to update when the new iOS was released, that day. No waiting.
Relevant: how Google test maps http://youtu.be/49JepTyK0NA?t=36m57s
IOS 6 Safari Caching $.ajax Results
Sweden Failed To License Photographs On New Currency
What went wrong with iOS 6 Wi-Fi
My suggestion was for Blekko, where he works. It just occurred to me that there are interesting possibilities in connecting a search engine with a word processor. Anyway, even though your table/index thingy would work, it's availability and/or accuracy might suffer from whatever manual intervention which would be necessary for maintenance, but mostly, it would not have the advantage of constant updates from crawling new and updated sources. There is more to English than the OED. A while back, I saw an estimate of there being something like more than one million words in English, which included many terms that have come into normal usage, but which might take years to be included in any mainstream dictionary.
> If it’s true that poker is a skill game, then only the true greats should be able to play perfectly.

No, even in a skill game, it is possible for someone who does not understand the rules to make the perfect play. It is just extremely unlikely, and it is extremely likely that a more skilled player will beat a less skilled player on average. The greater the skill disparity between two players, the more one-sided the competition should become.

I'm sure Josh realizes this, and I like the blog post as a whole, that quote just struck me as wrong enough I had to post something.
They're making money from increased product sales from people who otherwise wouldn't have bought an iPhone.
I never said you should limit your expectations. I was simply laying out facts. You can like them or hate them, that's entirely up to you; I personally don't care either way.

I'm glad you've found a more usable replacement for iOS 6's Maps.
Someone should start a "iDevBuddy" site, where people can pay a dev for use of her/his unused provisioning slots and install their own software.
It looks like [1] specifies 'Lucida Grande' in the CSS.
> As others have pointed out, this really should be titled "Everything that's wrong with Java culture ..."

I think any UI designer would tell you that a culture doesn't happen spontaneously. Why do Quora, StackOverflow, and Yahoo! Answers feel like very different products despite providing essentially the same functionality?

You can say this about any language and its community, too, not just Java. And it works both ways. Perl, for all its faults, provides a very easy way to package libraries and a well-organized repository for doing so, hence the comprehensiveness of CPAN packages[1].

Java's culture is a result of the fact that Java-the-language promotes badly designed pseudoabstractions intended to guard against bad design. Java provides broken abstractions because it is itself a broken abstraction - the class is a very poor abstraction over an object, and an inconsistent one at that (Java supports multiple kinds - in the mathematical sense - a design choice which impacts the way people use it).

[1] This is particularly true if you turn the clock back ten years and compare with the state of programming languages back then.
This is not an MVP of some new SaaS. This is maps on a smartphone; perhaps the most important feature of a smartphone other than the dialer. To do this so jarringly to your users is inexcusable.
Did you read what I said? "vim/emacs are [for Java] no better". This was in part to head off the predictable chimes from some of "all IDEs are stupid, (vim|emacs) is the best thing since sliced bread".

My tool of choice for Java is however IntelliJ, which is simply light years ahead of Eclipse (IMHO).
> Notably, the second option is not available to Tim Cook.

But they could just send in Forstall, he could easily do it and get away with it.
Linux Foundation forms Automotive Workgroup to open-source your ride with Tizen
Elderly woman who botched religious fresco demands royalties
>For most people the 3D is an amusing toy, not really useful. I'd be happy without it frankly.

The complaints about the "zigzagging" are about the 3D viewer, hence, my comment about 3D.

>They have data for searching on street addresses and towns, and the data is available separately for postcodes etc (TomTom for example will have sold a solution for this to Apple, so they could have gone down that route). Google has this down, as you'd expect given their search expertise, and Apple would have done better to pay them at least for access to this service if nothing else as it's a complicated area.

To have good geocoding, you need to have line segments with correct ranges and topologically accurate (for example splits in the right intersection taking in consideration overpass/underpass and grade changes - the 3D stuff you don't care about - along with no dangling edges). If you think OSM fits this bill in a world-wide dataset you are incorrect. Go ahead and download the entire dataset and see for yourself planet.openstreetmap.org.

> Yelp does, and that's who Apple are using for POIs

Actually, yelp only has coverage in the US and in the few outside countries they are in. Most of the world is not covered by Yelp's POIs, so sorry, but "Yelp" is not a worldwide solution for POIs - which is what Apple needs.

> One other point you didn't mention is that OSM doesn't do satellite data (their stuff is from Yahoo isn't it?), so that is a big area Apple would have had to sort out from another provider.

Yahoo, nor google, nor anybody else have their own satellite providers. That data usually comes from GeoEye, Digital Globe or any other satellite image provider. But yes, you are right, "OSM" has nothing to do with raster data as a whole (except for the elevation-derived contours they have in some places).

Fixing OSM for anything else than displaying maps is a huge undertaking. Then, when you are done, you basically have to share the data with everybody else (including Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Mapquest etc etc). OSM is the GPL of databases, so for some use cases, it is not the best choice, for other ones, it is.

The post I replied to claim "Apple just pick OSM", and my answer remains... it would not have solved any of the issues that people are complaining about.
The interns note that they were accused of stealing designs in the mentor's complaint. They never address this, and talk instead about website infringement issues.

If the suit relates to the misappropriation of their mentor's designs, they are in hot water. If the suit is merely about them copying the website, then it may blow over fairly quickly.
If I had $500 in my pocket I would still not pay $20 for a latte.
once people catch on to that, i think they will simply end up leaving anonymised comments.
Looks like it works well in bay area but outside bay area it's pretty bad. Apparently, Redditors are pretty pissed off - http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/106rvw/new_ios_6...

Looks like AAPL tested it in Cupertino and worked well. Thought it will work well in rest of the world too. Classic mistake?
NFL Redzone is the greatest innovation in sports in the last 20 years, if not ever. I didn't watch a single game on FOX or CBS last season and I won't this year either. I honestly can't believe that the NFL doesn't charge a big subscription fee for it.

[1] http://redzonetv.nfl.com/
Making money's far different from taking credit. They'd be taking credit if they claimed responsibility for the jailbreak ecosystem; as it stands, they're simply gaining some very marginal benefit and, at the same time, actively trying to crush that ecosystem.
Take a look at J2EE 6 - you might find it's Spring which is the heavyweight these days. Although as of 3.1 at least the need to write your programs in XML is going away...
> There is more to English than the OED. A while back, I saw an estimate of there being something like more than one million words in English...

I can see the advantage of a cloud-hosted solution here. It's getting pretty compute/memory intensive. Still, "spell/grammar" check is something that we'll probably never get completely right. We'll just peck away and approach asymptotically. Desert/dessert and their ilk are a worthy target. (Words that "look" right.)
Well, there's that, and there's also the fact that it's historically been a good bet with the iPhone to order each new model sight-unseen. That's been the case going back to the very first one.

Not every new iPhone or iOS version was a win in every respect over its predecessor, but this is the first time Apple has royally hosed its customers.
I can't speak to Ireland, but pilots using the Maps app for navigation wouldn't "fly" in the US. There are electronic cockpit apps that can be used on an iPad, but Maps isn't one of them.
It is not only this: moving datums around in the database heap is expensive (invalidating caches, exacerbating thrashing) and touchy (index pointers, concurrency considerations).

But debloating over time is an important property, so it's probably worth it to eventually get it right.
Disagree with your first point, unless you are suggesting they fall into it (aka just luck out). Like the infinite monkey theorem.

I agree with everything else. Obviously a more skilled player will beat a less skilled player if the game they are playing requires skill (which poker obviously does).
Also, you can see all 22 players. :)
Umm well Google maps are waaaaay superior. Apple give us the choice to use what we want, till you get your act toghether. Spend some of thoese billions and drive a bunch of cars around or heck buy a few satellites
Based on the conflicting statements the interns wrote, this is how I would put it:

"Thanks for all your help help, Mentor. We'll be off! [And we're taking your designs with us!]"

"Sure thing kids, go crazy. Do whatever you want! [I don't know that you're taking any of my designs to create competing products.] Good luck! You'll need it [because you don't have any designs and it will take you a while to come up with good ones]!"

Kids post to kickstarter using their mentor's proprietary designs, and get tons of funding to make products based on their mentor's designs.

Mentor sees them stealing the designs he spent months/years working on and sues.
I'd be curious to know pg's opinion on the Samwer brothers.
Precisely. My anecdote is little comfort to a platform looking to extract value from its users by targeting ads at them.

But it's better than nothing. At least I'm sticking around for the opportunity for them to someday extract value from me. If they didn't have this hook, I'd abandon the site completely. Compare that to something like MySpace in its heyday, which never had anybody's real life social network on there in any meaningful sense. Absolutely nothing to keep them there, and leave they did.
Sure HP/UX and friends always were terrible, but in 1995 I actually failed in love with Unix thanks to IRIX. IRIX really had a nice UI, easy to use management interfaces, powerful multimedia capabilities. Only installing anew it was bringing me back to the stone age (particularly the partitioning part, "inst" package manager was actually decent).
I think the One X is a beautiful device personally.

http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/
I think the biggest difference between "normal" football fans and the football enthusiasts like me and the ones I met in my engineering classes boils down to what reasons you enjoy watching the game and, perhaps with overlap between the groups, what level you're paying attention to the actual plays being called and run.

Most people love football because they identify with a team, and almost exclusively watch games involving their team, and aren't really paying too much attention to the strategy. They know the rules and the different types of plays, but they are really there for the tribal passion that a rough contact sport like football tends to evoke.

On the flip side, I don't actively seek to watch football games for a single team; if I happen to go somewhere that's playing a football game on TV, I love watching it, and don't care who wins, because I just enjoy the strategic and tactical decisions being made on and off the field. Watching a play unfold and seeing the snap decisions being made and the reactions from both teams to the changing field is truly fascinating.

I do still follow the results of my old hometown team, the Cincinnati Bengals, but more out of humorous pity at how terrible they are year after year than out of any identification with them or desire to see them win.

But hey, maybe I'm just ascribing what I want to see from the data, and maybe my opinion of "normal" people is skewed from growing up in Ohio compared to somewhere else in the country.
This is really cool. Was it difficult to deploy on Heroku?
> I also don't expect Apple to approve any Google "maps" application any time soon either given how strategic it is for their mobile business.

Soooo, their users don't matter? "Business strategy" is more important?

This is Apple?!
This article is BS. Don't give people information because they won't understand it. Ya, good logic.
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And again and again… nice of you to show the world your (friend's?) crappy repo. I'm sure that you have the next YADR or SPF13 or Janus, here.

1. The repo is filled with .DS_Store files. That's the very definition of "best". Not.

2. set nocompatible is useless.

3. What's up with line 3 of the .vimrc?

4. What's up with that mismatch between long and short versions of settings names? Why set nu instead of set number and set timeoutlen instead of set tm? Is that really "The Best Vim Configuration You've seen"?

5. What's up with all the duplicated settings (some with different values)? Why do they have short and long names?

6. "first disable the s key because its better to use c for everything anyways". Really?

7. Why only three buffer switching plugins?

8. Oh wait! You only have two. Then why did you keep the settings for an old one in your .vimrc?

Seriously…
How about how they take credit for inventing the appstore, even though jailbreakers had a thriving app marketplace before you could install anything besides the default apps on the first iPhone/iPod touch?
I wonder how the mispelling will go over in the UK. I see that flavours.me redirects to flavors.me, but I can see some complaints about the non Kings english.
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Just to confirm, this is only caused by 10.8.2, not the EFI firmware update. So you can rollback to a 10.8.1 backup and everything works fine.
>> No, even in a skill game, it is possible for someone who does not understand the rules to make the perfect play.

> Disagree with your first point

You may, but it is possible for a much better player to lose (even in a "skill game") to a player with very little or no knowledge of the game. You may consider this "lucking out" but even the most skill-based games have an element of luck, and in edge cases new / worse players will beat better / experienced players - this is simply how these things work (and part of what we as humans generally find exciting about contests of skill).

This is why many competitive games limit the element of randomness among professionals by various means. In poker, all players have the opportunity to play very many hands - no single hand decides the outcome (unless they decide to go all-in, for example). Similarly, in 9-ball and tennis (among other sports), professionals at the highest levels play sets of games - because the outcome of a single game is not indicative of the involved players' respective skill levels. On any given day, given enough games, I would beat Jeannette Lee at a game of 9-ball, even though her skill at the game is leaps and bounds above mine. At no time (ever, haha) would I realistically be able to beat her in a best-of-nine game format. That is why she is world ranked and I am commenting on a website.

Saying that "only poker greats will play a perfect hand" is erroneous, many people play perfect hands. The difference is a professional will probably know (or suspect) that they are about to make the perfect play. They also will attempt to do so regularly, and know the difference between perfect, good, and bad plays, whereas bad/new players will not (or will much less frequently).
Feds go overboard in prosecuting information activist
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And regarding their website at that, not their products. A cursory look at the products on both companies websites doesn't show any obvious copying of products designs. And if killspenser thinks they own the idea of a top navigation bar...

I will agree though, we have heard only one side of the story.
I'm not sure how it is done but the app AroundMe has, since 2009, shown me the location on the maps app but has also always given a "Route Using" option which has all the GPS apps on my phone including the maps app. Selecting the navigon feom there starts the navigation to that address using navigon.
Speak for your own databases. Mine does it just fine.
Don't forget: There's an incentive to win your case SLOOOOOWWWWLY, when you're paid by the hour.
Well done Dave & team, looks and works awesome
People have been hacking ATMs for years by installing gear on those ATMs. With NFC, such skimming might be much easier, as the gear you need to install can be _tiny_, and you only need to be in the vicinity of the target, making it easier to camouflage.

And attacks doesn't need to come from cots phones, with your own higher gain NFC device, you can interact with with ordinary NFC devices from greater distances.