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Search is still there.

Just press the windows key and start typing. It's all there, sans the textbox which tells you it's there.

Probably not the pinnacle of intuitive design, but it is there ;)
Somehow I missed the example link. I see it now though. Try making it a bit more prominent
No, not Google’s fault. Google has every right (and I mean moral as well as legal) to deny Apple access to their maps. I think there is nothing wrong with that. Yeah, it might be Google’s fault, but not in the sense of a moral fault.
Pretty ironic that I reached 500 karma with the post that you call "trollish". Now I can downvote both the original shitty satire and your silly accusations!

(Just kidding, of course.)
I find it harder to read. In particular, it's a lot harder to distinguish icons for useful things like train/tube stations from icons I don't care about like wine bars.
Maybe The Internet Only Wants One of Everything
Even if some iPhone 5 buyers are annoyed it will be a couple of years before most of them get another phone. By that time this issue will probably be resolved. The marketing hit is to people who upgraded older devices like the 3GS. These users could be looking to buy a new phone in the next six months and Android just became slightly more attractive.
Your definition of hard real time is the accepted definition; playing movies and such is soft real time.

Anyway, about C: that's the point. People are trying to create safer systems programming languages that can replace C.
I know it's not the same thing that the OP said, but, given Facebook's track record with privacy, there is no way I am giving them my CC number and home address.
Your fourth question was asked on the main Patents SE site. Can a sci-fi technology be submitted as prior art? http://patents.stackexchange.com/q/441/288
Says a group of people, 20% of which, are on a 12 year old operating system. Is the problem that Windows 8 sucks or that these users are extremely adverse to change?
While I happen to agree...a poll on an intranet forum is less than scientific.

Also, I don't think Windows 8 is going to work in a corporate environment. The training, etc is just going to be too costly.

Windows 7 is the next Windows XP, and that's a compliment to Windows 7.

Underneath the UI cruft of Windows 8 is a great, solid desktop just waiting to get out.
Here are some more random picks...

> 3.9 All app logic must originate from, and reside in, your app package

> 4.1.2 Your app must obtain opt-in or equivalent consent to share personal information

Did you even read any of those terms? They are ALL of the same nature.

> You've listed exactly 3 points from a multipage document with dozens of requirements as if they summarize the whole document. This is not true - the requirements go way beyond the points you listed.

Now you're just making things up.

> That leaves open any kind of anticompetitive reason MS may come up with in the future to manipulate the store.

Sure, whatever you say.
If a patent examiner cited the swinging patent in an application involving actual technology, I would guess the examiner might have intended the citation as a red flag, a signal to future judges and juries that the examiner regarded the application as bogus but couldn't prove it.
This thing fails too often. I need accurate face detection for cats; and I need it now!
http://cccode.cc/example is linked from the homepage (but in somewhat small print).
Absolutely. I was responding to the parent comment, not to the original article.
Referrals.

If you say "I don't know anyone" then start networking. Sure, it's easier said than done. But if you have the chops, and do just a few good projects, word will get around.

To take it to the next level, try to find a company that is run by or that employs a master sales person. Take that person to lunch and get a crash course in sales. Because once you have the referral, you're warm; when you know how to close, you'll be hot.
> Given this, it is counter-productive to build a tax system that asymmetrically benefits the people at the very top

I don't think anyone really argues for this, even the most conservative tax plans I hear about are flat.

I think he may be thinking how capital gains are taxed at a much lower than income. But this isn't a tax break for the wealthy per se, and it's not in place to create more jobs.
One million times yes.

Do yourself a favor, download and install classic shell: http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

With classic shell you get a Windows 7.1.

You'll boot right to the desktop (with a quick flash of the Metro start menu).
This is great advice. As a former freelance developer, I used to do this often and honestly, it's not a bad deal. As you mentioned, although you're generally going to get a lower rate, you get regular work and you're no longer the sales team, project manager, etc.
Apple didn't remove core features from OSX to create iOS on the iPad. I think that is one of the issues here. The idea that Microsoft's tablet OS will run the same "Windows" that the PCs run. If anything, Microsoft probably should have left the regular mode alone, and done all of the radical stuff in 'Metro-mode' so that people on a desktop PC could ignore it if it got in the way of their workflow.

If Microsoft thought that they could remove some of these things without any blow-back, then they are idiots. If understood the risks, and assume that things will work out for the better in the end? Then good on them, and good luck.
Google says they're not yet working on such an app.
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Google disabled Adsense for one of my domains because in a Forum on that domain a user explains what a "blow job" is. Which is related to a movie the discussion is about. The forum in question does not contain adsense adverts and the domain is not at all related to adult topics. They blocked the whole domain anyhow. Giving that one Forum page as the reason. Even though the domain has tons of content and thousands of other discussions.

I appealed but only got a generic reply not related to the situation.

So what does that mean? No adsense if anywhere on your domain there is a forum?
Hmm, I wonder if there's any way to have an event on page:change that somehow _sends_ a document.ready trigger. So it will trigger all document.ready hooks, without any changes to the code hooking into document.ready (which of course could come from third-party dependencies you can't easily change to use page:change themselves, and which may not want to be changed to have turbolinks-related code in them).

Might be easier if your code exclusively uses jquery's ready rather than native DOM onload or whatever.

But yeah, either way, this is a bunch of added logic that can go wrong, I'm not super enthused about it myself.
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Has there ever been an OS release where (at first) people prefer the new one? Windows 7 might be the exception only because the previous incarnation was so awful.

Ubuntu with Unity? we want the old desktop!
IOS6? we want IOS5 and our maps!
OSX Mountain Lion? We want Lion!

Change is always hard and almost never goes down well - this is not a new phenomenon and occurs naturally at the beginning of most major software versions. People will get used to it and move on with their lives...
He didn't address why they couldn't release them side-by-side for a year or so to get feedback on the new product before relying on it as the sole bundled maps product.
I also love the Enron data set for the way my antivirus software has its own little jamboree every time I extract the attachments from it.
Jobs wasn’t good at apologizing. That doesn’t mean he was unable to recognize and correct errors – but before there was a solution to some problem, he had a very hard time acknowledging the problem or even apologizing for it in public.

So while he might say “Yeah, what we had sucked, but our new thing fixes all these problems!” he wouldn’t really do the same so openly in times when there is no clear solution in sight.
The search is broken, unless you remember to do Windows + W, the search by default won't search files or system settings, just apps.

I don't get that, even though there is room on that full paged search screen, they only show a couple of apps.

You have to click on options at the right to have it search settings or files. What a stupid, stupid oversight.
Nobody knows if apple is paying them and it all seems like it was free for Apple (but would have been renegotiated in 2013). Google makes money from users using google maps, not by apple paying google to use google maps.

http://www.quora.com/How-much-does-Apple-pay-Google-to-use-t...
As I said, we aren't talking about hz, this is about cycle * hz. You aren't adding hz, you are adding cycles. I argued in my comment why I think this is ok.
I think the full screen start menu is fine, Windows isn't the only OS to use it, look at Gnome and Unity on Linux.

My biggest complaints are that system settings are difficult to find and navigate. It took me quite some time to figure out how to even shut down the computer the first time.

I do agree that the distinction between the Metro programs and the desktop programs feels arbitrary and frustrating. You can "Dock" the metro apps on one side or the other, but unless you have a widescreen display, that's not really an alternative to windowing.
Thanks :)

I made a note of some special case keys towards the bottom of the documentation. Some keys have flaky browser support (either keyup and/or keydown don't fire properly) so I call them out so they can be avoided and 'print' is one of them.
I would like to know more about this. It's completely not mentioned in the conversation (not just Tim's apology) at all. I know the new app incoroprates traffic data from Waze but they don't talk about OSM involvement at all.
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Yes.
Windows XP and Windows 7.

If you don't recall the abortion that was Windows ME, then you are lucky. Windows 98 was so clunky compared to Windows XP. All the little improvements and features were fantastic.

Then came Vista and that was another train wreck. But Windows 7 was a dream. It magically found drivers, everything "just worked."
Best imo: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly...

Using it right now.
I've been freelancing for just over four months now and there are only two ways I've found clients ( who will pay the rates I charge ) so far.

1. Emailed the larger web design and creative agencies in the local area. ( Maximum around 1 1/2 hour drive is acceptable to me )

2. Created a personal website, and did some very basic ( and always improving ) keyword optimisation, for my areas of expertise.

I've been busy for the last four months solid. Right now is the first time I'm actively looking for work again, and it's mainly because I stopped emailing companies. Big mistake.

It's worth noting that the clients who have found me via my website/blog ( I try to post at least once a week) are happy to pay considerably more than the web design agencies. From my experience most web design agencies don't know how much a good developer can be worth in terms of code maintainability and time saved delivering the project.

On another note I always recommend getting face to face with potential clients. My confidence in my ability shines through when I'm in stood/sat in front of them, and really helps to build that trust factor.

As repeated in many other replies here, and something I'm only just learning myself. Find a problem that people want solving and sell yourself as the solution to that problem.

I'm still not sure what problem I'm solving or can help someone solving, but I'm hoping to figure it out sooner rather than later. :)

Hope this helps.
I lived at 24th/Mission for a year, and as a photographer have been all over every nook and cranny of that neighborhood, the good and the bad - I don't think I'm unqualified to say that the area of the Mission west/on Valencia is an entirely separate universe from the rest of the Mission.

I haven't made any claims on the Mission, say, in early 00s, because I obviously wasn't around then. The main thrust here is that the Mission is not the gentrified yuppie paradise that the media (particularly outside of SF) consistently makes it out to be - that would be the Marina. Only the tiniest sliver of it has seen "colonized" by the hipster/dotcom/yuppie contingent.

In any case, my original comment re: gentrification wasn't aimed at the Mission exclusively - I've lived in numerous other rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods (Belltown and Capitol Hill in Seattle in particular) filled with curmudgeony 20-somethings shaking their fists angrily at gentrifiers who followed their own gentrification.

Actually, the anti-gentrification sentiment in the Mission is substantially less intense than it is in Seattle. Up on Capitol Hill in Seattle, if you have money and live in one of the new housing developments you're practically a persona non grata.
You are lucky. For first 8 years of my software career, I did not know anything other than C-based languages (except Lisp). Haskell made me realize what 'real' computer science is.
this is pretty cool, i actually built a similar game in flash a while back, the problem with the version i made (which you address here) is that it always ended up with my dot and one big ass dot. hence allowing me to win or lose very easily. with your version you not only spawn circles based on your size, but you also include shooting. nice work!

i think if you modify the shooting mechanic to work with the mouse, it would make the game a bit easier to control.
I think it's cute how Apple-customers takes for granted that Google will fix Apple's problems to make their life better instead of promoting its own platform.
Not really. The main thing that has been happening over time is that more and more low-security messages are being drawn away from email (Twitter, FaceBook, SMS). I used to get email forwards from friends/family -- now they post to FB. I never get a pic emailed to me any more. So, the trend to separate out low-security messages has been happening -- perhaps trending towards leaving email as only a password recovery mechanism.

Or maybe not even that -- I use 2-factor for Google and FB -- where SMS is in the mix -- SMS could even be the recovery mechanism, moving even those messages out.
Amazon is the same way. I don't understand why so many people base their entire businesses on companies that don't even give them any kind of real support...especially when you are making them money.
I've not seen any problem with the information about roads or directions, rather every error that I've seen is connecting a business or place name to a physical location on the map. Which is quite confusing, because Yelp will have the proper location for a business of interest, but the new iOS Maps will place it at the same address but in a different municipality, or something crazy like that. I'm not sure what problems others are experiencing, though...
I'm going to guess the rest of the all-hands meeting provided a bit more context and clarity.
It looks like AMD is just putting a pretty wrapper around Bluestacks and shipping that. The wrapper is possibly going to be limited to AMD / Win8 systems, but Bluestacks certainly isn't.
Describing a gadget in terms of cumulative frequency of its cores is an A-Ok method of giving approximate performance, especially when it's obvious that it's a sum of cores. You and I and anyone moderately interested by this project know exactly what this number means. It is also pretty clear that they haven't meant to mislead or trick someone into thinking that they are building a 1THz computer for $99. So, yeah, it's nitpicking.

A better angle would be - given the project and its goals, do you really think it's worth putting them down for something as trivial (and technically correct) as this -

Once completed, the Parallella computer should deliver
up to 45 GHz of equivalent CPU performance

That, as they say on TechCrunch, is a dick move. If anything, they deserve a pat on a back and a donation.
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Agreed on this. And not having an "all" category in the UI and as the default choice, seems like a weird design decision to me.
I have been using Win8 as a main OS for the past 4 months. I can't seem to find anything I need that was there in Win7 and missing in the new version. I love the new keyboard shortcuts (esp. Win+X, A). Metro is by no means a requirement - the old desktop is still there and all programs (even games) run the same.

I guess it's just easier to bash MS than to really see that Win8 is not just Metro/Modern, at least on the desktop. I haven't used it on an ARM device yet so I cannot comment on that.
Hmmm. Contrite lasted two paragraphs before we got some defiant bragging about just how great Apple is with "There's already 100 million users!!" Just in case we wondered whether an inflated sense of self importance might have helped contribute to this fiasco ;-)

What should they have said? Simply "The more our customers use our Maps the better it will get and we greatly appreciate all of the feedback we have received from you" would have gotten the point across.
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Google Brazil's position on censorship and freedom of expression
Ah, I didn't realize it'd gone into reexam. That seems like a silly waste of money.
What problems have you had with Amazon?
Whenever I've had problems with AWS, they replied promptly.
Ref and link to the abstract of the paper
Hwang, S.-W. et al. Science 337, 1640–1644 (2012).
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6102/1640.abstract
How does that have anything to do with map providers other than google?
This is by leaps and bounds one of the best and most interesting posts I've read. Imagine if the front page had two, three or four posts of comparable value.

This is the result of a mature, disciplined and ambitious mind that has been influenced by open source. I strive to have such a legacy.

Thanks Jacques!
Completely agree about the changing code part. I program in Ruby and I often wonder what I have broken whenever I change some code. (I know I am supposed to write a lot of tests, but it becomes a big chore to write tests for all the test conditions.)

By the way, I would not call Python one of the densest language by any means. It is one of the nice and straightforward languages to learn which is expressive as well.
I really did think that Apple had a policy of never apologizing. It seems that I was wrong. A great deal of kudos to Tim Cook for the apology. Perhaps an end to Apple's monumental hubris and arrogance is in sight?
Assuming naivety is neglecting multiple data points, among them her extensive experience at Google working on or with some of their most successful projects.

Why start there? Why not look at the whole picture and loan her the benefit of the doubt, saying, "I believe with your experience it's likely that you're familiar with software development. Therefore I won't assume this is a massive brainfart, even if part of my mental model of the world thinks it could be. Without that assumption, what are you trying to communicate with this, and why? What can I learn from this, and do I need to update my mental model?"

Assuming naivety is unreasonably dismissive, and says more about the critic than the policy or policymaker.
How on earth did a HTTP request header end up in your comment?!
I may have to check it out again, thanks for the tip.

My fave thing about Win7 was pressing Win key, then typing "Change resolution", or "change password", etc. I practically didn't need to remember how to reach anything. Laziness I guess ;)
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It looks very nice and is a good demonstration of what possible but there underlying resolution of the car is quite low and so the reflection of the ceiling lights aren't smooth. With a highly reflective rendering like this you do really need a large number of triangles and I'm not sure that WebGL in the current browsers can support that well. Would love to see it get even better!

Having said that, its a good job!
That was pretty good. Well played.
So let me ask this totally noob question. Is this where one could claim "prior art" or does that no apply in this case?
for a moment I thought http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_%28telecommunications
Google's business interests are weird here. They presumably were getting _paid_ by Apple for maps integration. Do they really want to say "Sure, stop paying us, and for free we'll make sure to provide an app of our own to your customers that's just as high quality?" On the other hand, Google is certainly otherwise often in the business of providing free apps to people that they try to get as many people as possible to use on other people's devices (I mean, Android. On the other hand, even though Android is theoretically free, i think every device maker that uses it has a paid contract with google). It's pretty unclear what Google's interests and plans are when it comes to this stuff.
I have not once heard people complaining about Apple Maps complain about the turn by turn.
> some more info on where you'll be gathering this information and how you'll choose to aggregate it

My server basically spends the week trawling GitHub for trending projects, so the scope of what can appear in a newsletter is kinda limited for now (only stuff that's trending on GitHub). In the future, I'm thinking of looking in other places (Twitter, Pinboard, etc.) for content to put in the newsletter, but the problem there is relating a link in a tweet to a particular programming language — things like PHP and Objective-C are easy enough, but just doing a search for tweets with "#python" and links in them isn't going to return very many meaningful results. So this is just a first release to test the waters and see if there's demand for something like Cccode. If there is, I plan on broadening the scope a bit. For now, though, think of it as "the hottest (GitHub) projects in your favourite language".

Thanks for checking it out!
They just said it was "at risk to generate fraudulent activity" (loose translation).

But AdSense was deactivated for years on my website, and there was like 20€ sitting on it (which was too low to be transfered).

Oh well, I will use something else for my upcoming real websites.
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tl;dr Glad they apologised, hope they put their money where their mouth is because I love the idea of an Apple-made maps application.
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http://dterei.blogspot.sg/2011/10/stanford-haskell-course.ht...
He hints that it may become available online.
How about one for Photoshop users looking to switch?
More than this letter, I would love if they update their product page as well and remove the "Amazing Maps" section from their website.
canvas (well, it is a framework, a native in-browser pretty low-level framework, but it's a framework. other than that? no, i just followed the instructions in this tutorial http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/canvas/notearsgame/ and took it form there)
I only had to read "I haven't used it myself" to understand why you have the sentiment you do. Try it. It's quite good and not all that different from Windows 7. Seriously.
That reads like an autistic kid or maybe OCD adult with a 'special interest' in trains explaining why a train crashed: "Company A always bumped the letter of the model number when releasing a new engine. Company B designated upgrades to their brakes by doubling the current model number. You can hardly blame Company C for upgrading the engine without upgrading the brakes when in the past Company C has always kept the numeric form of the engine model number + brake model number mutually co-prime."