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I can't believe that anyone really thinks Facebook, at least in anything close to its current form, will still exist in 20 years. It'll just be something we all nostalgically laugh about from time to time, just like AOL or Geo Cities.
In my city the maps are perfect - in some areas better than Google. They've improved a huge amount since the first iOS 6 betas when whole roads were missing.

The business locations are not so great though. It's a big mish-mash of really old data and incorrect locations.
It's a shame on OSX/iOS. When I've used these characters and viewed on Safari it turns them into raster icons ... exactly what I don't want. Windows and Linux are fine.

Anyone know how to disable this "feature?"
"Maybe you aren’t supposed to bother with the tedious stuff. Perhaps the reason you haven’t done it yet, is that you weren’t meant to. "

I don't like being meant to do anything, I choose what I work on and falling back to "well maybe I wasn't meant to" is using magical thinking and silly escapism to avoid a simple truth: You. Are. Lazy. And. Procrastinating.

Here's what I suggest to everyone who gets discouraged by some schlep work: Either find somebody else who will do it, or just get it over with, the sooner you are done with the enablers the sooner you can get to doing the things you love.

For instance: Most business owners find it tedious, boring and utterly painful to do accounting. But accounting is important. They don't say "Well maybe I wasn't meant to be a business owner", no, they hire a bloody accountant.
Read the 9to5mac story about rumors of a Google Maps app waiting to be approved. So we get to test that option. I think its fabulous since it can give us data that neither Apple nor Google would give up voluntarily :-)

Truly one of the best parts of working at Google when I did was being able to see so much more of the moving pieces in these sort of mini-dramas. Don't miss it enough to go back but it was unique.
There may indeed be no evidence that these students enter school any different from their peers. However, in the absence of evidence, you cannot make any conclusions at all. It does not necessarily follow that the school is at fault, nor does it follow that there is some sort of conspiracy at work. All we can do here is give our opinions.

If a person has a low aptitude for something, then they themselves will naturally tend away from it, and toward things at which they feel they can succeed. I liked programming initially because it fit with how I thought and what I liked to do, so I practiced it and became better. I don’t care that much about cars, so I don’t know a lot about them—just enough to do basic repairs once in a while. So it could very well be that the child has no learning disability and the educator is not at fault. We cannot know without hard data.
here is some code i wrote last week: https://gist.github.com/3758511

it was a method i extracted from some old code somewhere else while i fixed a bug in it. the functional programmer in me sees opportunities to generalize (and prevent future bugs here), so i try to refactor it into a defaultdict and a higher order function, using guava. 20 minutes later I still don't have working code, i revert, curse the gods because this is a 30 second refactor even in python let alone clojure, and move on, i don't have time for this shit.

its not about it looking different. it doesn't matter that closures and objects are turing equivalent. its a syntax problem.writing functional java code has too much friction and is not worth it.

this is not even getting into how any hardcore functional code needs persistent data structures to be fast, which means a) you need to write your code against a 3rd party collections library instead of JDK provided implementations, and b) any interop with 3rd party code will now imply a conversion (copy) at the boundary.
Or they find some landmarks that are shaped like sexual organs and reject it because of pornographic content.
Does the recent news of Twitter turn off IFTTT access break this?

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/09/20/ifttt-removes-twitter-...
I started to think of Twitter in between SMS and E-mail as I think a lot of people did. To me Twitter is more of a protocol or even a modality than a platform. That's the brilliance of it: it's a speed and length of communication that feels very natural. I have no objections to these rules in terms of Twitter growing as a company. I think there are a lot of applications that can be built aside from clients and it makes sense for them to steer people in that direction.

As a user, however, I feel attached to the idea that data and application are separate. I would like to think that I own my Tweets, but most of all I just want to _feel_ like I own my tweets — like I can _do_ whatever I want with them and see them however I want. A short, passive message that I put out in to the world is a great thing and it seems unlikely that a single company can own that idea.
You can only get slapped with treble damages if your opinion about your prior art was wrong, but that's no surprise.

I'm not seeing where willfulness has anything to do with it, since it isn't mentioned in the section that allows for treble damages:

"35 USC § 284 - Damages

Upon finding for the claimant the court shall award the claimant damages adequate to compensate for the infringement, but in no event less than a reasonable royalty for the use made of the invention by the infringer, together with interest and costs as fixed by the court.

When the damages are not found by a jury, the court shall assess them. In either event the court may increase the damages up to three times the amount found or assessed. Increased damages under this paragraph shall not apply to provisional rights under section 154 (d) of this title.

The court may receive expert testimony as an aid to the determination of damages or of what royalty would be reasonable under the circumstances."

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/284
And that has absolutely nothing to do with Java. Why is it Javas fault that some idiot decided to create such a class?
There's not much "edge case" about obsolete maps, misplaced businesses and addresses, etc.

It's great that it's working for you, but it's a bit annoying for you to just dismiss the trouble that many of us are having like that.
>In pretty much every thread about Apple on this site, you will be reminded that Android enjoys amazing sales.

And in the same threads and on Apple blogs like Gruber's and Siegler, you're constantly reminded how it doesn't matter because Apple takes ~75% of the profits, and statistics on how apps are more profitable on iOS because Apple users are the premium users willing to pay and how many Android users are too cheap to buy apps. So if you're an app maker looking to make money, iOS is pretty much close to a monopoly if you're trying to make money.
exactly that

If net neutrality applied to service providers, Wikipedia would have been "guilty" of violating the ethic of network neutrality just for its boycott action earlier this year on the Internet blackout day to drum up opposition to SOPA and PROTECT IP Act.

. . . and "net neutrality" attempts to solve a problem by treating the symptoms rather than the infection itself, anyway. The real problem is governmental enabling and encouragement of monopolistic service providers. The fact such organizations may "abuse" the monopoly powers created and defended for them by governmental support is a side-effect of much deeper socioeconomic pathologies.
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Twitter's handling of their API closes the door on a future where there can be any expectation of building your service on-top of another.

We should stop building apps on-top of walled custom APIs and go back to using HTTP as an API.
(1) don't call it "San Fran". S
The problem with that is it only tracks a single page.
As one of a handfull of liberals who protested Saddam with Iranian expats (many who then went back and died in that war), there was no liberal or democratic opposition to thatsupport, and much of it was secret at the time. Nobody flipped. Not one. When they became aware of it later (Iran/Contra) and the first Iraq war ramped up, they were consistently against it.

Republicans haven't been isolationist since the 40s.

There is little, if any extreme change in D voters over the last several decades. There is no vice-versa, it's false equivalence nonsense.
(1) don't call it "San Fran".
The implication is that this isn't really related to NFC. They're hitting a vulnerability in some content handler or another (thus the "also be abused via [...] malicious websites or email attachments" bit). So this has to be fixed regardless. It's not really a problem with NFC per se.

The use of NFC for the demo was showmanship, basically. It gets them attention, and also serves to point out that a comparatively-little-known feature of the phone can be an attack vector too.
I didn't say there's no merit to the article, or that its point might not be right. It might just be. Rather, what I'm saying is that I'd like to see some actual analysis and data on this subject for once, instead of just everyone's anecdotes.

I'm pretty sure we've all got anecdotes about how our friends, kids, neighbors, co-workers, etc., are slowing down or stopping their Facebook use. And that may well mean something big. But it's equally possible that we, our peers, and our children, are not a representative sample. Or that we're just not the core FB user base. Etc.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm open to the conjecture posed in the article. I may even be partially inclined to believe it. But I'm skeptical until I see real evidence.
Thats a gross comparison of languages.

Java, C++ and whatnot are imperative languages, of course the syntax is gonna be different to declarative languages such as Haskell or Lisp. They're also only alien at first; once you get used to a declarative syntax you never want to write imperative code again. It would be like going back to monochrome after experiencing color monitors.

We have some programmers at work who can't think outside the C++/Java/C# box. They also tend to be the worst programmers even after decades of experience.
> I don't care if the maps work in Columbia or South Africa. I just want it to work well where I live!

So do people in Columbia and South Africa. :)
Nice phonetics.
You're right. No less frustrating though. Anytime I'm denied a choice, especially in the face of enforced inferiority it raises my hackles. Here's hoping all the protesting and ridicule will get the job done.
I think my favourite image was the state park with this caption beneath it, made me laugh out loud: "Valley Forge State Park became Valley Forge National Historical Park a few years ago… in 1976" in all seriousness Apple's maps offering quite clearly isn't up to scratch in comparison to Google's maps application.

While Google have made mapping look easy for a long time now, it quite clearly isn't as easy as Apple thought it was. If Jobs were still alive, maps would never have been released in the state that it currently is. Seems like Apple rushed the release of maps, I wonder what the real agenda for moving away from Google maps in the first place was here? It quite clearly wasn't because Apple had a superior maps offering than Google could offer.

Way to force us iPhone users to use an inferior mapping product. Luckily Google have submitted a maps application to the maps store, but it'll probably get rejected for competing with the iPhone maps application.
>The people most upset seem to generally be edge cases

I love it how you dismiss 99% of people and the globe as an edge case by your anecdote of it working well for you.

Let me take a guess, you live on the West Coast where Apple engineers live?
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Kickstarter should rather simply put projects on 'hold' and have a dispute ticket of sorts similar to that of ebay for people to sort it out and figure it out.

In the end of the day it has to be black and white however.. one or the other... the question now is who that side will be? The kickstarter raiser or an outside third party?

It is a great shame to see such a project go down like this and I hope kickstarter is taking notice and not let something slip like this.
tl;dr another reporter has deciding that since Facebook is waning in his household, it everyone else will probably start hating it.

I'm not convinced this article provides any value, except as Yet Another thread where people can weigh in on "why I don't use Facebook anymore" or "why you're all wrong, Facebook is fine."
> on his resume.

This is Apple. The resume will simply say 'worked at Apple Inc. developing software.'
I completely agree, there's a huge amount of data there that can be processed in a useful way. The problem is, at what point does something become a Twitter client? IFTTT let people use tweet data in a bunch of interesting ways, not just as another way of displaying things. If anything was using Twitter as a platform, IFTTT was.
What does "a true platform" even mean? Currently my mind blanks when I try to think of any useful applications of Twitter, given that the only way to see tweets is on their web site now (effectively, I know there are some half assed clients still available for the time being).

Also betting on their API seems crazy now. Big companies or startups that spend other people's money might still be able to do it, but for a bootstrapper it seems like a recipe for disaster.
I've been doing a very similar thing (but appending all mentions to a note on Evernote). I found it pretty useful.
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My guess is that they are doing something that makes life worse in certain ways and better in others.
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Question: are maps in a TomTom GPS as broken as these?
agreed, Irish times interprets it as tongue in cheek http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0920/break...
I think its the emoji piece's subtext.

The tiny Santa represents the writers angst towards an unfair society, while the rocket ship is suggesting using a rocket to visit said Chipotle.
Benchmarking is, in general, useless without context. I believe that something like the CLBG fails "useful" in the sense that the curated programs are themselves of limited utility. Showing different benchmark implementations illustrates some things about different programming languages, but IMO these differences are of limited utility when learning languages.

Do I believe that your measurements are falsified? No. But generalized benchmarks (that is, without meaningful context to the problem that you're trying to solve) are truthy, at best—sort of like statistics presented out of context (such as the 47% figure floating around in political circles).

As I said, I think the way that the CLBG is presented now is much better than it was presented as the Shootout. I just don't think that it's useful toward real software development.
"That can't be true because it just can't be", then?
So a law was passed last year requiring this. Which means that lawmakers made it understood to the Patent Office that the system is considered flawed and needs adjusting.

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?
It's war! Kinda.
But IFTTT also allowed you to post tweets to your LinkedIn or Tumblr account (as far as I know). So twitter didn't like it.
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On the other hand, you might consider simply finding what you love, and letting the rest take care of itself.

Yep, this works great for me. Because I'm never bored by what I love, never discouraged by what I love, never heedlessly irresponsible about what I love, never sick of what I love, never resentful of what I love, never scared to death of what I love. I'm never distracted by what I don't love, never seduced by what I don't love, never fooled by what I don't love. I'm never foolish in my love, never shallow in my love, never fickle in my love, never maturing or changing in my love. And of course I never, ever love more than one thing at a time.
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Just once I'd like to see them issue such a press release.
Writing style is important when trying to persuade. But for the discerning reader looking for facts, content is what counts.

The top post shifts the focus from a blogger's (Greenspan's) account of his dealings with Mark Zuckerberg to "founders guilt".

And this comment is now addressed to the relative merits of Facebook.

The discussion moved from discussing Greenspan's account to discussing founder's guilt and the merits of social networking. How does this happen?

Those topics are not the point of Greenspan's post.

It's a simple tale of how one founder treated someone else, from whom he took advice and ideas.

It's a tale that's familiar (perhaps painfully familiar to some), because we've heard others tell it before as it also happened to them.

Keep changing the subject. Or trying to justify how Zuckerberg treated people by looking at the end result (which no one denies was due in part to great luck).

By all means do what Zuckerberg did and build something big. But don't screw other people over the way he did, call users "dumb fucks" and disregard their privacy as a trivial matter because you think that's a prerequisite to success. It isn't.
They couldn’t because they were a monopoly.

Apple is so far from being a monopoly, it’s not even funny.
We're only talking about a demographic of ~5B people and 63 countries, don't be so hyperbolic: http://theunderstatement.com/post/31855177665/quantifying-th....
There is no way that it was a unilateral decision by either company. Clearly there was some offer (e.g. more money, dropping patent lawsuits against Android) that Google would have been happy with. Or some terms that Apple would have been happy with (e.g. lower cost, access to more API features). It's not either party's fault alone that they couldn't agree about the terms.
"Clearly the designation is not only wrong but is dangerously misleading in that
it could result in a pilot, unfamiliar with the area, in an emergency situation
and without other available information, attempting a landing."

Maybe you shouldn't have named it "airfield", then?
Are you kidding me?! Why would Twitter do this? Picture Twitter as a tree trunk of data. There are branches and leaves that grow off the trunk, branches like IFTTT and other amazing services. But once you cut off the leaves, then the branches, only the trunk is left. A dead, dead trunk. A couple months ago there wasn't an alternative to Twitter. Now there is. I'm switching to App.net tonight.
Since it's absolutely impossible for anyone to legitimately relate to the proposed sentiments because in reality all people are is haters... That's what you're saying. So let's disregard any and all anecdotes.
"The thing about Reddit is that it makes you feel smart when you are actually doing nothing productive."

I could say the same for HN at times. I spend way too much time not working on projects and instead reading everything interesting here, then moving to the slightly less interesting, until I'm down to things on the new page that I'm only slightly interested in.

This has prompted me to go set up the anti-procrastination settings.
I didn't mean to imply you could do it everywhere. I was specifically replying to the part about "MUNI" in the parent comment. The geo data for current MUNI positions is public data. So if you are making an SFMUNI specific app, there's no excuse not to use it.

Also, I didn't realize that embark also does routing, which is more than iCommuteSF and Routesy do.
Is it just me or has Apple "slavishly" copied the google maps app functionality, icons (that arrow looks like a copy paste) and rounded corners?

The hypocrisy here is just mind blowing.. And it clearly demonstrates the utter bullshitness that is there fight against Samsung
TIL the entire population of New York City is one gigantic edge case.
Sure the complaint won't stand, but they do have a similar general look, they could have avoided it completely by just going for a different style. Should be common sense if you are leaving one company to start another.
That's entirely the point. A "true platform" is, to Twitter, one where developers come up with new ideas that aren't obvious (hence, your mind being blank trying to come up with one on the spot), then Twitter copies / acquires them and extracts all of the value. It's the exact same thing that Facebook does on its platform (see Dalton Caldwell's experience at Facebook recently), and what OS vendors have done for decades.
How? The term "prior art" already only applies to publicly-disclosed knowledge. Trade secrets don't invalidate patents, since part of the purpose of patents is to dissuade people from keeping inventions secret. If you want to be protected from someone else inventing and patenting your invention, you have to disclose your work, such as in your own patent application.
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Stripe? Paypal? Lots of options -- especially for a company that will be selling a physical product -- they'll need to figure it out sooner than later.
Sunspider is mostly single-threaded, that's why. Also, Intel is being misleading with their chip anyway, as it will run at its highest clock (2 Ghz) in benchmarks, but will only run at 1.3 Ghz in the vast majority of cases, otherwise it would quickly overheat.

It's Intel's first and only processor that they are advertising with its "turbo-boosted" speed, rather than the default real speed. What makes it not okay for all their other chips to be advertised with the TB'ed speed as the "default" speed in their marketing material, but perfectly okay to do it with this Atom chip in the RAZR?
"Do what you love, and you'll never have to work again"

Some act like this is a joke, saying: "Yea right, you still need a job to survive." Yes, you do need income to buy food and shelter. But the income doesn't even need to come from a job, and it certainly doesn't have to come from tasks you dislike.

If you hate your job, you are probably in the wrong career or working in the wrong field. If you really hate your job, people close to you know, and it affects them.
The word continuity does not appear anywhere in your OP. The statement that voters take opposite positions depending on who is in power does.

I'm more interested in you documenting, factually with polls, countless examples of D's doing this flip-flopping. Exactly who was against Afganistan but suddenly rationalized supporting it when they learned Obama was for it?
Beautiful. I'm in love with Jinja and this is exactly what I was looking for in JS. Already got github/flosch/pongo for golang so the cycle is complete.

Jinja won.

Now, let's get the best from all and unify it in a universal templating system, so all languages can build libraries to parse and render the same templates, no matter the language.

We all win.