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Er it seems pretty obvious that the company getting copied is being wronged. The evil genius of copying it verbatim and getting it out first is that when the original does launch in that other country, IT looks like the knockoff because it came to those people later and it looks just like something that's already been out for a while. This has large financial implications for them.
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I disagree. There's usually a difference between the easy and unrewarding thing that I love and the thing which requires real effort. Sometimes I have to force myself to write some code instead of play a video game. This is just the way it is for me. YMMV.
I've gone on several groupers in NYC and it's awesome. Much better way to meet people than any other dating site I've tried.
I used to have a lot of ideas for Twitter apps, but now I am just confused. Not sure what is allowed and what isn't, and in any case, as you mention, whatever you would build would only have a very limited lifetime anyway. So it is not even fun to think about new ideas for Twitter anymore.
> So a law was passed last year requiring this.

Not exactly. The law simply made it a requirement for the USPTO to accept submissions from the public. It did not require them to set up any coordinated effort to solicit submissions; that was done voluntarily.

> How many patents were granted in between the passing of this law and them actually stepping up to meet its requirements? Wouldn't that potentially make them all suspect and needing to be reviewed again?

All patents are subject to submissions of prior art under this law, not just pending applications. So yes, all patents approved since the law was passed are suspect, as are all patents approved before then, and all patents approved in the future. It's never too late to show prior art.
As map data changes over time (road construction, POI movement, etc.), Google Maps could fall out of date. Of course, I doubt that's a major threat, since Google will presumably still be the primary maps platform on Android and the desktop web.
> Apple feels maybe a year behind in some respects and a year ahead in others, but definitely not 7 years behind.

I believe this comes from the fact that you had Apple's turn-by-turn.
Is that actually better (or a year better) than Google's turn-by-turn navigation that's been on Android for so long?
I get the desire for narrative and different colors...but this looks awfully simple-minded. Why can a boy age 5-9 play with erector sets and legos, but a "girl's" engineering toy must comprise such a primitive set of components?
OSM is only comparable to commercial data in Europe AFAIK, and there, only in some places.

It's not surprising that densely populated areas in Europe/UK are complete and accurate in OSM.
GDB is the venerable veteran with literally decades of experience baked in. It's good for most of what you would want to do. LLDB (the debugger part of the LLVM project, of which Clang is the compiler part) has made some interesting strides, but still has a way to go to catch up with GDB, I think.
I couldn't figure out from the video what the "game dynamic" is of this toy. I see that one arranges the spindles so that the animals spin when the ribbon is pulled.

Is the pattern a puzzle for the kids to solve? Do the kids follow along based on the patterns shown in the story?

Either way, exciting concept. I wish they explained the game itself though.
I would agree with this...there were a lot of features that "cooked" for a long time under the wraps. Better to keep the iOS 5 maps app going for one more iteration while Apple Maps simmered for a bit longer.

then again, they do need the crowdsourced data, but maybe they could have had the iOS 5 app stream a duplicate of whatever it's phoning home to google into the new Maps databank.
The beta version, no?
Even if you're right, it's edge cases that companies should care about. People who are not edge cases will comply anyway and use whatever is default, whereas it's people who are edge cases most likely to switch to a competitor (possibly leading more people with them).
Seconded. If you want to get started on something that you may have always wondered about, here is some in depth analysis of the peyton manning offense in indy:

http://smartfootball.com/offense/peyton-manning-and-tom-moor...
I think that is where Twitter's value degenerates. It's basically personalized RSS feeds with a smackload of users.

If you take away third party API capabilities for those RSS feeds in an effort to push people towards making "apps", you're going to lose developers who were in it for the functionality, not the community.
Turn by turn is completely separate from the complaints about Apple Maps. I'm sure they work great, provided that your destination is plotted correctly in their database.

As for edge cases, that's the point. You have to be able to trust a mapping application with areas which are unfamiliar to you. A maps app can only be useful if there's a high level of trust, and when you immediately see errors in Apple Maps (some of which are clearly the result of overzealous automation, like labeling "Airfield Park" as an actual airfield) that trust vanishes fairly quickly.
So... what's a 'workstation' these days? Every desktop machine has the 3M: (at least) a megapixel display, (at least) a megabyte of RAM, and (at least) a 1 MIPS processor, and that's in addition to little things like graphics cards and Ethernet (and/or WiFi) hardware, both of which were defining features at one point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M_computer

Does the definition of workstation come down to what the computer's used for at this point?
Can't hate, I love it. Even the pink and cuddly bits. If this product instead had a blue ribbon and alien figurines with the title "Cyber Drivetrain Blast Kit" it wouldn't raise an eyebrow as a gendered or pandering toy.

Legos are for boys when 95% of what's on the Lego shelf is boy pirates, boy laserbros, boy Batman, boy bio-alien-robots tearing the shit out of boy bio-dino-robots, etc.
numberfire out of nyc does advanced fantasy stats:

https://www.numberfire.com/
They don't complain as much.
In April 2012 this Techcrunch article on Everyme said they have 24,000 users and 200,000 circles

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/everyme-200k/

But from the sound of this latest Techcrunch article they are switching up, maybe the activity dropped off forcing them to change
Ah that is a great explanation with details, thanks - first good one I've seen to understand what's happening.

Was worried about ARM there for a day or two.
Twitter pulled this a few months ago http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/09/19/linkedin-referr...
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There are reasons why the jailbreak isn't officially out yet: you should not do this, and you should wait for the actual official release of redsn0w.
The OP's point is that this feels a lot like Antennagate 2010, where a large number of non-Apple users latched onto the fact that there was something wrong with Apple products, and complained louder than the actual Apple users. At this point, we can call all the evidence anecdotal until we see some hard numbers on how much map data is actually incorrect, and what actual percentage of the population is affected (I'm not holding my breath for that data, though).

I agree, though, that Apple rushed in prematurely with a new version of Maps -- either they screwed up big time engineering/management wise, or their hand was forced business-wise (I'm leaning towards the latter).

So putting the "outrage" aside for a moment, how well do maps work on your phone, and did you notice any problems so far?
Microsoft's been open-sourcing more and more SDKs for a while now. It's good to hear about another, but what's really interesting to me is the bit about partnering with Xamarin.

Since its inception there's been fear about Mono being a dangerous platform to develop on because Microsoft might try to torpedo the project at any moment. This is far from the first time that Microsoft has publicly given the Mono project their blessing, but one that comes in the form of a business partnership is still nice in that it might help cut through the FUD just a little bit more.
Tablets are another thing. Google hasn't been thinking about it too much (N7 is their first attempt) and the iPad is still king.

There's a lot of work to do in that field, and that's catching-up work more than improvements. It's much like discussing the Nexus One. Let's talk about it again in a year or two.
This was Apple's decision, not Google's.
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Actually, this kind of thing has been around for a long time.

Football Outsiders does game charting and "advanced NFL statistics". People have published papers on using artificial neural networks to predict play calling, success rates, even injuries and stuff like that.

But this does give us the ability to enrich the data quite a bit. When you watch the live film you really can't see who blew a coverage where or why the safety didn't get to the running back in time to make a tackle. I think if you just watch the TV angles then you might not be convinced that pump fakes actually do anything to confuse the defense.

There's a lot to be gained here by statisticians and casual fans alike but it's hard to see that when only 1/3 of the action is visible at any given time.
screen scraping = break ToS = get arrested by Feds.

It is the new world kids and we all better break out our reinforced tin foil hats.
if only there was some kind of real simple syndication technology one could subscribe to that wasn't rapidly falling out of fashion...
If you can replicate art I will respect your talent to replicate. Not everyone can.
Cool, and thanks. Did you already see [jsonjinja](https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jsonjinja) ?

Nice that you can precompile templates too. Can’t wait to roll this into my brunch template.
Its only a monopoly if you are very narrow minded about the market. Brew and J2ME have multi-billion dollar app markets that compete with Apple and Android in terms of volume.
They weren't?

In what could be a key move in its nascent wireless strategy, Google (GOOG) has quietly acquired startup Android Inc., BusinessWeek Online has learned. The 22-month-old startup, based in Palo Alto, Calif., brings to Google a wealth of talent, including co-founder Andy Rubin, who previously started mobile-device maker Danger Inc.

-- BusinessWeek, August 16, 2005

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-08-16/google-buys-a...
Also, the lack of block numbers and no labelling of "landmark" shops - eg Lawson, Mosburger, KFC etc. - makes them impossible to navigate.

Osaka can't feel to bad - Tokyo station is also missing. I guess the Shinkansen plowed through them both last week...
I had this idea recently of splitting the internet into two internets: one for Apple fans and one for Apple haters. Apart from getting rid of a lot of flamewars, Apple could rule supreme in the Apple internet, be the best search engine there and so on. If you never know that there are better options, you can be happy.
Interesting—in what ways was it better?
Find (or probably make) a font where all capital letters are just larger lowercase letters.
Some how I don't think training animals to do this type of detection would be easier than training a computer to do so.

PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
I was there a while ago. The only advice I can give to those who are feeling this that it takes tremendous effort to move yourself into a position in life that you enjoy. What's worth having or keeping in life isn't easily obtained.
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I think Gruber was postulating that Apple would continue updating the app to take advantage of iOS in deeper ways while Google wouldn't put the same level of effort into the iOS version of the app, making it stagnate. So more of degrading of the iOS experience than anything related to map data.
Research heavily contradicts the idea of finding something you love, then getting good at it-it's usually the other way around (though it's a bit more complex than just that). Cal Newport recently released a book around this topic: http://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-ebook/dp/B0076DD...
thanks for that! i wasn't even aware of field tags.

i can see this solution causing other problems too. there can only be one tag per field, right? what happens when another library has a different meaning for the tag?

are we going to see a hacky standard emerge where we have multiple tags in the one field separated by semicolons (with a precursor for each tag like 'json:')?

it feels like an ugly hack to use tags this way, but i guess an ugly hack is what is needed for this right now.

i would much prefer a separate keyword to explicitly export fields. or, since we are already hacking the tag, why not have the compiler export any field with a tag called "export"?
Yeah, the equality check thing kills me. I have a page that needs <selects> for choosing a time of day, and so I set a bunch of vars like isHour1, isHour2 and isMin0, inMin5, etc. A total pain when what I want is {{if hour == 1}} http://jsbin.com/uvuhip/1/edit
ugly...
It has an annoying file size limitations, though.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/59578
Symbola seems to have a number of emoji people are using.

http://www.fontineed.com/font/35288_symbola

http://www.4shared.com/file/xh0VBvUg/Symbola.html
Business 101 teaches you that if barriers to entry are low there will be many competitors. Why is this so surprising for people? It is good for the consumer. It always has been.

In the SWOT section of your business plan, under W, if you didn't have Samwer brothers you need to rethink it a bit.
Don't let the url fool you, Michael Lombardi is actually a very good writer.

I won't comment on the content, but he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
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At least for engineers, part of your professional obligation is not to dilute the value of your services by offering them for free. The equation is obviously a bit different for lawyers, who may work pro bono (only in criminal cases, perhaps?). My point being, it is probably against their professional code to be on retainer for a price far below market value.
My girls LOVE legos. They have a few of the new 'pink' ones but mostly play with our 20 year old lego collection. They don't think of the girly legos as 'real legos', for whatever reason.

It _is_ disheartening to go into a lego store and see almost solely boy-oriented sets, though. I note kids in Lego stores are roughly 60/40 boys / girls, but the sets are boyish.
How to share content effectively. Why is iphone 5 taller?
Apple are already being investigated in a number of ongoing cases by the FTC, DOJ and ITC for their App Store practices[1].

I really doubt they would have the balls to block Google Maps with so much spotlight on them already.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-11/ftc-said-to-prepare...
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> It's advertorial, marketing disguised as journalism.

It's barely even disguised. If it were published by a news organization[1], or really just "someone else", then you would be right.

This is an article on NFL.com about an NFL product. It's straight up advertising. Publishing an "article" to say "this seems 'risky'; why would we even offer this product to you, our fevered fans" is about the thinnest disguise an ad could have.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Sorry - I meant the decision to put an App in the App Store. If the Apple Maps are bad as people seem to be proclaiming, Google should let iOS 6 brew up ill will with Apple's customer base, especially since Apple users tend to upgrade their OS's immediately, and use it to promote Android.
"The only thing Generics are really extremely useful for is writing data structures that you can re-use with multiple data types." Take a look at C++'s STL: a large set of generic algorithms that work with any data structure (built-in or user-written) supporting the standard iterator protocols. Many people think of STL as "a bunch of container classes", and ignore the algorithms.
Twitter is also removing RSS feeds and many people now only post to Twitter instead of blogging.
I think it accepts the fact that traditional engineering toys are boy oriented, and adds a girl oriented toy to the market. Seems less about changing prevailing attitudes and more about using presenting cool stuff about engineering to girls who have probably already been impacted by those attitudes.

In any case, I signed up for a couple boxes for my daughters.
Thanks!

But it still doesn't mention what sorting key was used to arrange the pieces? Similarity in shape, obviously, but by what measure?

Since it's an art project, it might even have been done semi-manually, by eye?
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I think HN could do with a lot more Adventure Time references. +freaking1
If you're accusing Apple of copying iOS 5's Maps app for iOS 6's Maps app, you're accusing Apple of copying itself. Google provided the backend data and map tiles for Maps prior to iOS 6, but Apple wrote the app itself.
You can do that from within Twitter directly.
So only 15% of girls liking engineering is a problem, but girls not liking pirates, batman and bio-alien-robots isn't? Where is the movement to get girls interested in bio-alien-robots?
Yeah, the question is if Apple still got the feeling that the hype should result into pleasure in post-launch.
Apple talks Maps as Mapping team remains “under lockdown” to address problems
I found Javadoc well better and more informative than Python doc. Python module is nothing but a watered down version of a static class, so whatever applied to a class, you can say the same thing on a module.
The idea to combine it with a story sounds great. Perhaps it would also work with classic toys, that is just write stories that use Lego, and skip the new toy?

Some examples as to what you can build with the toy would be great.
>They weren't?

Yes, they weren't. The first Android phone appeared one year after the iPhone (HTC Dream, released on October 22, 2008).

That 2005 acquisition didn't automatically make the two companies competitors...
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And Google's self-driving cars. It's not going to generate much data in the next few years, but the two products each add a lot of value to the other.

It's easy to believe that Apple's maps will improve, but thinking that Google's will stagnate? Bah.
Way less awkwardness. You are in a relaxed environment with friends, and there's much less scrambling for things to talk about, because pretty much everyone can tell awesome stories about their friends.

However, there is an increased level of awkwardness if you like someone from the other group -- you have to isolate them and try to get their number, which isn't always the easiest thing in a group of 6.
How about TomTom for iPhone?

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tomtom-u.s.-mexico/id35568237...

Yes, it costs $60 + in-app purchase for more frequent updates, but still, at least it is accurate.
It might be in their TOS, but they definitely aren't obligated to stop supporting these guys because of legal action. In fact, without a formal process in place they open themselves up to more risk by making judgement calls about whose funding to pull. I'd like to see these guys take Kickstarter to court, if only to get a better definition of KS' legal role and responsibilities
I can see the concerns some people have with legos clearly focusing on marketing to boys, but erector set stuff does seem rather un-gendered to me. I don't know if it has changed, but the erector set stuff I had as a child was just a bunch of stamped out metal parts with nuts/bolts. Not much "themeing" at all. I suppose you can just buy "vanilla" lego blocks too of course.

Anyway, parents know what their kids want more than anyone else, so I think the option of gendered construction toys is great (so long as the market doesn't become dominated by them).
Pandora doesn't hash their passwords
It's busy pushing the same rock up a hill forever.
Idiomatic is not necessarily better. "Idiomatic" C code of the eighties would be considered atrocious now.

And idiomatic Java code (Factory of proxies of singletons) is laughed at.

And not a lot of people are fond of idiomatic Ruby code, which tends to rely on "magic" (or "action at a distance").

Sometimes idiomatic is good, sometimes it's bad. Let's not cargo cult.
> It will be more verbose

Isn't it exactly why it is not good idea (or at least not convenient) to do so in Java, even if functional approach would be best suited for the task at hand?

Of course you can do everything in Java what you can do in Clojure. You can also manipulate strings and generate reports in an assembler, did you know this? It all boils down to how convenient it is.

Java was not designed for functional stuff, that's all. Saying that you can map a function over collection in Java isn't going to change this.
RubyMotion is ready for the primetime
I really hope that when I have kids, their interests and my location coincide so I don't have to buy them a Toy for Gender. I'd like to let them find out what they like to do.
I trialled for their Aus arm and promptly walked out after finally getting an answer to how much they (don't) pay. I took a job a week later for double what they offered which is still an average wage. I have no respect for these guys.
>If you're not sure on what big letters is, it's ABC instead of abc

Actually those are called "capital letters" or "capitals".

>and don't want them in a computer language

This is a BS and capricious statement that has nothing to do with programming.

Try the arts.
Hm, maybe - but withholding maps from iOS could be considered evil and backfire into Google antipathy. Also I the impact might not be so great after all - fans will be fans...
I don't think that's really the author's point. I think his point is that when you find something you love, you will forgive the little aggravations and just power through them, because they are part of this activity that you love. You find yourself loving the aggravations as much as the achievement, so that it's the process that pulls you along.

I'm debugging a double-free in a C library right now. I have basically no information to go on other than the failing test; ASAN/Valgrind was no help, and the liberal assertions sprinkled throughout the code aren't catching it. Many people would say that this is a pretty sucky task, but it is challenging and engrossing enough that I debated not writing this comment (I'll try and keep it short so I can return to my work soon ;-)).

That's why people usually use the metaphor of running. Running is hard work; it is hard on your joints, it is hard on your muscles, it gives you a hell of an aerobic workout and leaves you sweaty and out of breath afterwards. Yet many runners (not I) get a high from the process - not from having finished the race, nor from how fast they finished the race, but just from having run.
What is wrong with Java encouraging OO style programming? Some people will do very well with it and some will not. Functional programming is not the holy grail and some people are very bad at it. Do those bad functional programmers invalidate the whole functional programming approach?

I found that the whole notion of finding some bad examples of a practice and then offer that as a proof to invalidate the whole practice very distasteful. The lynching mob incited from the blog post's false information just shows how far it can go.