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As a python guy (still the densest language on the programming language shootout AFAIK), I find I can run a unit test before most languages would compile. More to the point, I don't make type errors when writing the first version of a piece of code; it's when changing it that the type system becomes invaluable. Of course, this is different for different people.
What's the common usage of the word 'theory'? Maybe it's because I'm a former scientist, but I can't imagine how the public's definition would be different from the common dictionary definition:

a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation
Good! I can finally swing from side to side again.
You can only apologize for a mistake, if you think Apple made a mistake then you dont know Apple very well.

If you consider this a mistake(which it is), you must consider it a very highly calculated one. They knew what they were doing, apologizing for something they knew would happen is very disingenuous.
As a designer I found this is the magic work equation:

1) Find a project
2) Finish project on time and budget exceeding expectations
3) Wait for client to send you referrals

Repeat steps 1-3.
Yes, you are talking about your experience, and that's fine. eddieroger, however, was talking about everybody's experience, and claiming that the new Maps is just fine, for everybody, unless you need one of the features that's outright missing. That is simply false.
The reports I've read indicate that Google are still working on their iOS Maps App so I don't believe there is anything for Apple to simply approve right now.
Noam Wasserman from HBR studies this extensively and has real data on Startup survival rates under various conditions (including founder size). This book http://www.noamwasserman.com/book/ has his results -- I don't have it, and I don't know the results. I saw him give a talk at Business of Software 2-3 years ago -- where he presented a lot of his findings.
You expect this kind of apology from a Web startup (Tumblr has posts similar to this every few months), but not from Apple.
I buy that the maps is a feature of iOS6, but remember that iOS5 doesn't run on the iPhone 5 (AFAIK). This means that the maps feature becomes part of the purchasing decision.

Would love to see the number of iPhone users in the markets where the new maps app is as good or better. I would go further and say this doesn't matter. A map application is only useful if it works all the time, and if you have the confidence that it will always work.

They had not made a phone before, but they were still a consumer hardware company. I don't think its fair to say that they can now just become a legitimate mapping company. NAVTEQ, TomTom, Google, etc, have spent hundred of thousands of man hours developing those expertise.
At the risk of sounding like an elitist, I don't think there's an FPS in existence where console vs PC doesn't matter. You need a mouse.
Isn't hexa-core six cores? Whereas this has sixteen.
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It's not actually hz, it's cycles * hz, which is cycles per second. Cycles are additive: 1 cycle + 1 cycle = 2 cycles (in the same way that you get twice as many cycles in 2 seconds as you would in 1 second). We probably all prefer FLOPs/sec, but conceptually they are actually very similar - number of operations = number of clocks * number of operations per clock. Number of operations per clock isn't changing when you add more cores, so if you have a problem with summing clocks you should have a problem with summing FLOPs.

As incredibly misleading as it is, our objections may largely come from preconceived notions of what a hz is. We want it to be a function of a single core because that's how we grew up thinking about it.
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I never found BlueStacks very compelling on my desktop or laptop. Tablets or NetBooks might make it more than a fun tech demo, though. Windows 8 is trying to cover more of those, especially the WinRT version.
Great example of used-car-salesmanship video
For what it is worth, IOS maps has more recent satellite images and more recent road maps from the centre of the city where I live than maps.google.com (the data from maps.google.com will happily show a continuous road that, nowadays, is only an entry to a parking garage)

The IOS 5 app has what looks like the same satellite data as maps.google.com, but even older road topology (it lacks the detour you need to not end up in that garage)

So, from the (tiny) part I checked, IOS 6 has better maps than IOS 5. It may be worse on average, but how would a user objectively evaluate a map app that covers the world?
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Please do not post subjective opinions stated as fact. Personally I found it amusing. The upvote/downvote system will effectively aggregate these subjective opinions and display the comment appropriately.

Your post, however, just comes across to me as trollish.
"Google could absolutely prove anti-competitiveness of the App store, by simply releasing the app that existed on iOS5"

I was under the impression that Apple was the one that wrote that app, and they just sourced all the map data from Google.
I'm pretty sure that if there was a manual for the software or application you are using, you wouldn't read it anyways. The software should be intuitive in the first place.
Of course. I've yet to encounter anybody who says that Maps is universally bad for everybody. But many Apple fanboys insist that Maps is universally good, except for a very few outliers, like eddieroger did.
Go to meetups and other tech events. Make friends with people and talk about their ideas. Give out your card. You'll get propositions to help people constantly. Some of those people will be willing to pay. The more you get asking you, the higher you can raise your price.
Don't be adverse to meeting people. Some of the best work that's come through my studio has been the result of meeting with someone six months prior and them remembering my name/work.

Reach out to people you feel you can help. Don't be arrogant, but offer an honest and articulate reasoning for offering up your services.

As a developer, have (at least) two things online: a list of recent projects (could be as simple as a Github account) and a blog/notebook with some of your work. I know a lot of the developers that I follow just from coming across an article or tutorial they wrote.

Try putting up a personal site that says who you are (a profile, photo, etc.), what you can do (services), and a rough cost estimate of working together (i.e. my projects start at $X,XXX and average $X,XXX).

Sell yourself on HN. Make sure your profile says what you can do and has contact info. Also, checkout the monthly "Seeking Freelancers" thread. It's a great jumpstart when you're looking for work.
You must own an orange phone with shitty maps! lol...
Just to clarify, I don't think they were trying to "fool" customers; if nothing else, surely nobody would believe that a genuine 13GHz chip is suddenly going to appear via Kickstarter. It just annoys me as a way of describing performance of their device; as someone else suggested, total FLOPS would have been a much better metric.
Have conversations with people that need problems solved.

What's your main area of expertise? Go to online communities where that expertise is discussed and join the conversation. When somebody enters the conversation that needs a problem solved, you'll be headed towards a new client.

Social networking is your friend. A month ago, I got a new client using Quora - through a question I asked about how to find new clients.

The more companies you talk to, the closer you'll get to finding somebody that needs you. Remember, they want you to consult for them as much as you want to consult for them, so go out there and find them. From my perception, the environment is very pro-consultant right now.
I'd link to the video itself, but I wanted to write commentary on what's so amazing about it and the FAQ instructed me to blog about it and link to the blog.

If this is considered bad form, tell me and I'll resubmit the video only.
It is really not 1/3 the quality. It has errors, without question, but so did Google Maps when it first launched. To partner with another company and then, in a few years again switch to their own maps and start over or partner again with yet another company doesn't make sense.
It's an unfortunate situation, but not something that can't be gradually fixed. There are several features I prefer actually. The city I live in is broken into subdivisions I wasn't previously aware of. It looks nicer. And the yelp reviews are useful, perhaps even a good way for businesses to quickly become featured on maps.
I have to be honest, none of the people I know who have purchased the 5 have complained much about maps, they realize its not as good as google but they feel the other features more than make up for it.
Which product at Google took six months or less to develop from scratch?

This is not to say that a six month development cycle is impossible. There just has to be an understanding that there will be a trade-off in quality. Maybe Mayer is in the "get something out there fast, and reiterate based on feedback" boat (which would make me respect her more) but going from 0 to 100 in six months is impossible with the scale of projects Yahoo! works on.
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The sweet spot, I think, is a nice "getting started" guide along with an discoverable API design. The guide gives prospective users an idea what it's like to use the library, and the discoverableness means they'll be able to figure out the more complex stuff without precarious trial-and-error or obscure doc spelunking.
TPB is not an inherently illegal site. Legal content can be offered through torrents and TPB. But the question is, why is Google acting like judge and executioner? I won't even go into the fact that I think linking to no matter what should never be illegal.

I'm starting to get tired of Google favoring the label and studio cartel and being against the regular people through Youtube's ContentID system and through increasingly more stuff like this, just because they'd rather be on the safe side.
I guess I'm just failing to see what Google has to gain, and I feel that they have more to lose.

Right now they have gained a key competitive advantage in the minds of consumers. Even iPhone fanboys will have a hard time arguing that Google does not have a better maps app.

What will they have to gain by proving the App store anticompetitive? Google will not make any sort of money from the app anyways.

By releasing a Maps app for iPhone, Google will basically giving away for free what Apple had been (likely) paying them for before. How does that make sense?
I generally agree that I rarely make type errors when first writing code in Java or C#. I must say though, it really isn't the same with Haskell because of how much more expressive the type system actually is. Of course with practice one improves there too.
That's not how I interpreted the original post. To me it read that they are switching their lead platform to Android rather than their product.
"The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play." - Arthur C Clarke

If everyone is unemployed who pays their bills? Well the idea is that necessities become so cheap that people could pay for everything with what unemployed get in food stamps...

These unemployed will need low cost robo-housing (housing made by robots), low cost robo-healthcare (fully automated health-care clinics), and low cost robo-food (sheets of meat grown in robot factories). Hopefully those things will accompany the driver-less cars and retail-bots that replace all workers in stores and on the road.

People think "who will pay to maintain, or manufacture these robots?" Memristor-powered conscious robots will laugh at these types of questions... because that's primitive humanoid thinking. The robots of the future will explain they can "print" themselves, and because of new advances in materials science, and non-silicon low-cost electronics, hundreds of robots could be made for every person that exists on earth, per day... if needed.

Don't want to eat meat grown in a laboratory??? Don't want to trust your health to fully-automated robots??? Don't want to live in a robo-built trailer??? Then get a job programming robots!
Individual use may vary. We all have different experiences with the local maps in our area, and this doesn't mean people are diluted or wrong.

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Okay, here's the real problem that Notch is worried about.

Every game and app that has "Microsoft Certified Safe(TM)" is one more reason the average user will be reluctant to run apps or games that are not "Microsoft Certified Safe(TM)".

They are worried that the next batch of indie games will, instead of running, pop up a window "Microsoft has not certified this app as safe. You can be infected with viruses, or key loggers can steal your bank accounts. Do you still want to run this uncertified application?"

It's not about the big assed buttons.
Work your real life connections

Came here to say this. Go ahead and post on the freelancing websites if you want — but separate yourself from the outsourcing companies. Do not lower your rates to compete against them. If a potential client chooses someone else over you simply because they are cheaper, trust me, you do NOT want them as a client.

Work your real-life connections in your local area. If you don't have that many, get out and make some. Realize that your skills offer an expertise that others need. Become known as the expert in your area and word will get around. Ask for referrals.

It can be really frustrating to hit the pavement day in and day out, but you have to do it and eventually it will start to pay off.
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Nokia is having a bit of a cash flow problem, and an additional maps deal would probably be welcome income to give it a bit more margin to try and recover.
I don't know how I get work, but I always seem to be busy (for the past four years of freelancing at least).

Main thing is to put the word out. Have projects of your own. Offer advice freely. Be helpful. I normally have more work than I want and can be fairly choosy.

But I've got to admit, if it all dried up, I'm not sure how I'd go about 'looking' for work. (that said, I'm not sure I'd want to)
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Unless you sell it to a new class (possibly multiple classes) every year.

For what? $1K a year? Would you do it? I wouldn't. The money isn't there.

That assumes an editing process that isn't streamlined and automated towards the singular goal of making previous editions obsolete and forcing students to always buy the most recent one.

That's quite a conspiratorial stretch to think the authors do that. Think for a moment about what it would take to write a textbook that would be acceptable to a group of experts. You would be an expert in a very small part of the field. It would take you immense work and study to make sure you had the facts right on all of the parts for which you are not the world authority. That is really hard work.

The three-year obsolescence plan is a publisher model, not an author model.
Statements you make and policies that you implement for your company say a lot more about your naïveté than positions you previously held.
Don't use the freelancing sites. They're a race to the bottom.
Are you using a framework?
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Apparently the burrito (or is it a canoli?) was invented 12 years ago: http://www.google.com/patents?id=YlkIAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...
I have yet to hear someone complain about Maps other than missing features - both personally, and observed through chatter online. So his comment gels with everything I know. I'm curious to learn about people complaining about something other than missing features, so if you can point me to them or say what your experiences are, I'd like to know.
I disagree. Android is a means to an end- getting control over the user's mobile experience, and extracting data from that. While the obvious preference is for everyone to be using Android, that will never happen. So an iOS Maps app will give Google advertising, as well as location tracking, etc. etc.

Very valuable.
I'd say it's much worse than 1/3rd the quality. It's absolutely terrible! The data for London, where I live, is full of misspellings; at least one tube station is missing (Monument, in the heart of the financial district); and it fairly often seems to use an arbitrary street name as the name for an entire district. I wouldn't trust it to navigate me anywhere!
I'm going to start writing tutorials on Gimp. I'm not sure at what level to start so I'm throwing this out there. Feedback or suggestions is appreciated!
Poor windows. It is damned if you do and damned if you don't. First they aren't radical enough. Now they are too radical. sigh.
They don't mention it because they do handle NDK games.
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Fun! Now all you need to do is put some pigs and birds in it :)
>> "My biggest beef is the removal of the start menu and the search bar on it - I could do/find anything from there"

This is still there is a different form. WIN+F brings up the search interface in Metro (even from the desktop).

Also, you can kind of window with the snap mode (grab a metro window at the top of the screen and drag it to the side. Not ideal obviously though.
Yes, my objection comes from a preconceived notion of what a Hz is, because it is the SI unit of frequency - so it has an internationally standardised meaning which you're meant to be able to rely on! In the same way, when I buy a 9V battery, I rely on my preconceived notion of what a volt is, and that's always worked out okay so far.
We're building matchist (matchist.com) to solve this exact problem.

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There's a more important gamble in play at the moment:

Maps are not Siri, they're not a shiny aluminum cover or impressively slim industrial design: they are one of the core features that people own smartphones for. Would you really get a smartphone that had totally broken maps?

So there's a race: how much can Google steal Apple's thunder before Apple can build a reasonably competitive maps application? I suspect Google is considering how much permanent damage they can score to Apple's marketshare through this debacle.
I wish descriptions like this said "financial accounting" instead of "economics". Economics is about tradeoffs; part of that is money, but economics ≠ money.
He's so full of shit.
I had a professor assign his own text once (somewhere around 1996?). It was pretty expensive. At the start of the semester, he gave a $2 refund to everyone who had purchased a brand-new copy, since that was his share of the price we paid. I think there were about 60 students taking the class that year, so that comes out to $120.

Are you really suggesting that $120/year creates some vast moral hazard for college faculty? Or even ten times that?

(The "new edition shuffles problem numbers" thing is irritating to me as a professor, too, by the way. It's not clear to me that even most textbook authors are fond of the continual release of new editions, but it seems to be a big part of the publishers' business model these days.)
Yes, probably it should be a hexadecicore or something along those lines.
Uhm, sure. I’m not sure what your point is, though. Of course Tim Cook has people to help him write that. Of course he didn’t just walk into his office, wrote this and sent it off without consulting anyone. Do you think the PR department is incapable of writing apologies?
Sigh. Never waist a good crisis eh? "Sen. Joe Lieberman said that he believed the attacks were launched by Iran".
Windows 7 had the perfect balance. It made significant improvements in many areas that XP was insufficient at and Vista sucked at, while keeping the fundamentals the same. Windows 8 though... I haven't used it myself, but from what I'm hearing, it sounds like it's slated to be a bigger disaster than Vista.
i'm currently writing a tutorial/manual for a library i wrote several months ago. the library took maybe 1 month to write and now the tutorial has taken 3 months. creating examples, illustrations, demos, determining and writing the sections in a sensical, progressive order takes a long time (epecially when it's done in your free time) :(, but without it, the project is DOA and no one will use it.

also, writing a tutorial has helped me refactor and decouple parts of the lib a few times to simplify and hone the API to something much more elegant than it was in the beginning. sometimes i feel like Git could have used the same kind of process to create an much more refined, wart-free API also.
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Metro is just a 2D representation of the old 1D list. All the items from the old menu are there.

Search bar? Just start typing anywhere on the Start screen. Win+Q is all programs screen + apps search, Win+F - file search, Win+W - search settings in control panel. There are also a lot more search providers to choose from.

Full screen apps? Isn't that cool you can run tablet apps on your desktop? They are not required in any sense, if you don't like them, delete them.
Cool idea although I think you should provide an example newsletter. I'd also like to see some more info on where you'll be gathering this information and how you'll choose to aggregate it.
He doesn't mention OpenStreet Map as an alternative!
completely agree. I've only written toy haskell programs, BUT it has heavily influences all my other code (js, c[++], java, ruby).
It will however require the services of a competent patent attorney at a cost of around $1mm and approximately 3 years in a court in Eastern Texas to prove that they are in fact "okay".
They've been unfairly banning people for years now with no appeals process whatsoever, and the effect it's had on their PR so far has been minimal. They make good products, and they have made "not being evil" part of their image, and those are the things that people care about. Whether or not they actually live up to that image is a marginal concern.
to me, the common use is more like 'hypothesis' - a possible explanation, that is still waiting for "real" confirmation once the facts come in.

but the scientific usage includes the fact that lots of facts have already been evaluated, and even that the new predictions by the theory have already been evaluated and found to be true.
I would really like to see an option in Turbolinks to be opt-in instead of opt-out. Instead of applying the pjax-type behavior to all links unless they have data-no-turbolink, only apply to links that have data-turbolink (or ideally a completely unobtrusive option to do $(node).turbolink() or $(node).data("turboLink", true) or something. Although this is made more complicated by turbolinks intentional lack of jquery dependency).

Probably not too hard to add it to it. Maybe i'll get around to making up a patch myself if nobody else does.

But I'd be a lot happier with turbolink on a link-by-link opt-in basis.
Who is saying that maps is awful for nobody?
Ok, yes. If you're developing a single-page Web app--or even a handful of pages--then you are correct, 6 months is an eternity. For an entire project though, which I understood was the thrust of this article, it is an extremely short period of time.

If Yahoo's goal is to develop simplistic Web software then I retract my statement, but we're talking about something absolutely worlds away from the type of stuff that Google has been producing, or even Yahoo over the past several years.