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For a lot of people I think SEO has a shady sound to it... and referring to how people optimize for ranking in the appstore by using brand names or official product names (even when they are not that brand) seem like shady SEO tricks. In this case it was about Picasa Web Albums, with unofficial apps having names like "Picasa Web HD" or "Web Albums" etc., all for ranking but no doubt leading to customer confusion.
I'm pretty sure you can buy them from inside the SBB ticket centers, but you can at least buy wrist watches from mondaine:

http://www.mondaine.com/mondaine/

edit: Looks like you can buy the wall clocks online from SBB itself
http://www.sbbshop.ch/pub/index.php?page=goods&c=8&s...
I've used Java for 10 years. I've never used Spring. I've never created an AbstractFactorySingleton. I've never used XML. There's nothing in Java that says you have to use anything in particular, apart from the runtime (Extremely solid), and the basic language syntax (IMHO nice enough).

OK, maybe they're not an idiot. Maybe it's warranted. I'd say it's probably over engineered stupidity though.

Even so, the title is like pointing to a stupidly constructed house and calling it "Everything that is wrong with bricks".
2 beers later and I realize this is a really bad comment. However, I still believe that despite the insane failure that Apple's Maps are, they will only get better with more user input.
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So I really like this idea, and I get the need to fit the tool into the social context, but it still feels a little bit problematic in its labeling.
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There is nothing at all stunning about that site. Boring corporate design, the link to "try" it blocks you with a login popup, the whole idea of bothering to register or "subscribe" or a dictionary. What is the opposite of stunning?
I'm pretty sure they patched it, that's what I'm seeing too.

I have a feeling that they just put a bandaid on an issue that is going to get cracked open eventually.
Cool! Nice work.
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It would be kinda neat to have Apple and Google street view mobiles going around and pseudo-competing with each other.

Apple has the money to do it no question. However it takes more than just money. On the data collection side there's designing, building and integrating the sensor system on the car. That has to be tested. Then it needs to be replicated many times. The data collected needs to be stored somewhere. Either locally on the car or in the cloud. Either way that has to be figured out. You need to hire drivers, protect yourself from liability etc. While all of the these pieces are doable they're non-trivial. Especially when you consider the number of people involved. And that's just collecting the data.

Now Apple has to process the data and make that available to the maps app. And there needs to be software written for the maps mobile apps. Perhaps desktop too. All that needs to be tested. This "presentation" side of the problem involves a bunch of people too.

So how long do you think it takes a company the size of Apple to accomplish all that? I'd set a lower bound of one year. So for 12 months Google maps still has street view over Apple and will probably improve it (especially if they know Apple is creating a competing product).

While money isn't an issue the amount of time, energy and other resources required to make a product as refined as Google street view is enormous. Can Apple do it? It probably comes down to leadership. Steve probably could have done it. I wonder if the current leadership can.
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what if the swiss rail system installs screens or develops tablets for its passengers one day that show the iconic clock? Could Apple sue them then?
I still wouldn't call that a waste though anymore than I'd call model building a waste. They may not be using their imagination but that does not mean they aren't learning or developing other skills.
That's a familiar proverb in English as well. It appears in the (Hebrew) Bible, in Hosea 8:7 - http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+8%3A7&...
Your quote reminds me of some Go trivia:

"... [Cho Chikun] was asked by a Dutch reporter why he loved Go so much. Cho replied 'I hate Go'. He continued saying that it was too tiring and tense for him. This led to his habit of ruffling his hair or constantly moving about." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cho_Chikun

There's a glimpse of this in "The Master of Go". The author indicates there are different kinds of Go players—one kind, like Go Seigen, a light, bold, self-assured type that play every move as if they have perfect knowledge that it's the best one possible; the other being a dark type that always seem ill at ease, uncomfortable, questioning every move they make and pouring over their decisions for hours afterwards, like Minoru Kitani and current prodigy Cho Chikun. Strangely, the book brings up this dichotomy and never really classifies the main character, Honinbo Shusai, into one or the other category, mainly implying that he is somehow glacially slow, relentless and insatiable at the same time. Good book.
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This sounds like it would likely be a Trademark infringement suit, which would be expected. Trademarks, if unprotected can lose their value. Having showing it on 100+ million of your devices should meet that requirement.
from a business standpoint. Google would be the #1 search for browser and places/location on the top two mobile platforms globally equaling to over 90% of the smartphone searches. What possible reason would there be for google to not want to be the default places/location search on the ios platform ?
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but knowing what you're doing is really a black mark against you.

Hypocrisy implies a blatantly willful action. It also obliterates your argument. It is arguing against your own case.
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If distribution was the problem, wouldn't this be taken care of by having a huge group of indie filmmakers banded together.

This is a good point. As I said, I'd really like some indie filmaker to come and answer this. But do consider that I usually have few problems with those guys:

1. No sequels, or they take really long to come.

2. All the copyright crap is still there.

3. Difficult to judge quality _before_ watching the movie.

4. Too many people to tip. You want your money to go to 1 guy that makes good movies. Not to 100 filmmakers.

I'm feeling very naïve about the movie industry here – is what we're describing simply a movie studio?

Well, I guess that's where we ended up. Again, somebody with an insight view might help. On HN they were talking of the Nigerian movie industry that seems to be doing profits. I think is all about how you model revenues and cost (yes, abstract, but that's how I think about it).
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> There is no way I can get Google Maps back without jailbreaking my phone.

You can't restore from a pre-upgrade backup?
I would look for vendors who supply equipment/materials for micro-brewers, and tell them what you're trying to do. It's in their interest to help their customers get funded so they can become better customers. You could give them something to hand out, ask them to make a referral, etc. If you found an online vendor, you might be able to negotiate a banner on their site.
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As usual beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. I personally like the Go website. Simple and reduced.
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for a company that makes the claim of not compromising on the user experience. They have taken sacrifices in the past to ensure a better user experience. Its not out of character if they did have to spend more money for a year till they got out maps perfectly
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That's an excellent point. Pandora should just publish their user/pass database and it will the user's own fault if they've reused their password ever.

But, seriously, whether they should be or not the fact is Pandora is hosting sensitive information and they need to act like it. They shouldn't need to lock it down like Fort Knox, sure, but password hashing is considered a bare minimum these days.
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From vbox forums, someone at Oracle:

"That said, I believe we're now far enough along to say that there will highly likely be at least a test build pretty soon. Certainly sooner than in two weeks..."

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=236591#p236591
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Hypocrisy and irony are funny. It's pretty much standard practice to ridicule hypocrites (see pretty much every issue of The Onion). If someone criticizes an action and then does that very thing or worse, people lampoon him. I don't know what you find so perplexing about that.

The grandparent poster was satirizing Apple's hypocrisy, not the state of design patent/trade dress laws. The satire was not about those laws being too strong. It was about how Apple says one thing but does another.
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> Google wants as many people to use its maps as possible.

If that were true, they would offer the service for free. As it stands, for normal contracts, only the first 25,000 requests per day are free[1]. If we assume Google wasn't willing to give Apple a special pricing deal, with 300M+ iOS devices in the wild, Apple could easily be left shelling out a fortune each day to user their data.

[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/faq#usage_pricing
It could just be biased because you're asking about Clojure in a Haskell room. It may not be that haskellers have a low opinion of Clojure so much as they have a higher opinion of Haskell.
It works most of the time. Especially for businesses, as I think it accesses the yelp directory. If it gets point a and b correct, the routing seems ok.

Most errors seem to be that of string parsing - the biggest sin is not recognizing town/state portions of search strings consistently.

Ironic since I'd bet some of the best language parsing people are busy working on llvm and clang somewhere else on apple campus.
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Speaking as one of the people who worked on adapting khtml into Wbkit, no, it was no comparable with Mozilla or IE at the time. It took a major effort to get to shippable performance, web comparability, standards compliance, and quality. Check out the first 2 or 3 years of WebKit commits on trac.webkit.org and you will see some incredibly basic stuff.
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Design is irrelevant when it comes to programing sites. We programmers want to get straight to the code and some times design becomes a distraction. I have no issues with the Go site and even the PHP site. It is great until I can quickly find what I'm looking for.
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Because the best way to browse the enormous PHP site is via Google search. Type in your query and Google will point you to the specific page you are looking for.
Yup, I tested with 2 different accounts, using 2 different browsers, even from 2 different IPs. The static keys seem to never change, they are served from the same .js file.
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Being the teardown site brings a lot of traffic and business. I know I go there first when I want to know how to tear apart stuff, and I bought my small drivers kit from them.
> Lets do some basic math. Lets say you pay a driver $10/hr to drive 8 hrs a day at an average speed of 35mph in the city. That is about 250 miles covered per driver, per day and $80. So you do that for 10 days and that is 2,500 miles for $800.

Don't forget fuel charges! ~$40 per day (at 3 USD per gallon for a car that gives 20 miles per gallon).
You can get master clocks and slave clocks on eBay, antique or not, with lots of character or not. But they're a pain, since you need to connect the slave to the master with a cable.
I am pretty sure using a maps app is more like visiting maps.google.de in a browser, that is, it would be free. The pricing link you gave is for embedding Google Maps into your product. If anything, I suspect Google paid Apple to keep maps on the iPhone, and now Apple's demands were getting too much.
Well, iOS 6 has websocket. Visit http://ajf.me/websocket and see for yourself.

Since everything will be moving to websocket eventually, might as well get a head start on iOS.
Why the hell people still use LaunchRock.. such a waste of time!
Yes, they patched it within the past few hours.
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I should imagine that anyone who cares enough to become distressed by Apple's maps will be able to figure it out.
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"Getting the best possible photos using the existing camera hardware"

What does that even mean? You have no control over the camera hardware, so the image you're getting back is the same image everyone using the camera gets back.
Why not? We believe LaunchRock is still awesome to create viral landing pages.. We already have the product ready that is being beta tested. We dont want to waste time in creating another viral landing page..
Is there any indication, anywhere, that Apple had to pay Google for the maps app? Quotations, citations? I really really doubt it, if anything I would expect Apple received money from Google for the privilege of being the preinstalled maps app.
If you can see the field, you can tell it's not an airport (although you'd know much sooner if you had your charts or cockpit GPS out), and decide if you want to land there anyway.

If you can't see the field, your iPhone GPS isn't going to be nearly precise enough to let you land safely anyway, even if it was an airport.
Not sure where this is from, but I doubt it's true. Qantas has a fairly good safety record, and as far as I can tell (from Wikipedia and memory), only two incidents have occurred with 747s, and only one during landing: a 747-400 overran the runway in Thailand during a storm.

Sounds more like an urban legend to me.
Hopefully you'll ignore my opinion - its all in the eye of the beholder from my perspective :)
(The basis of that not being UX - thanks to whomever raised that random distraction, but about Beauty / Ugliness as cited in your headline).

You aren't going to please everyone all the time, and certainly your design gets a reaction from me.

My assessment is made in the context of you assessing other designs - hoist with your own petard if you will. This heightens the situation - that is I'd expect an exemplary design on a page willing to comment on others.

The number one turn off for me would be the choice of font. It certainly comes of as playful and dare I comment on Mark's work (for I shall) - I do not think that quality of font is suitable for body text. No it's not in the comic sans league, but it evokes unpleasant sensations. This could be the font itself or font rendering on Chrome on the Mac. Quite frankly I find it horrid.

Next for me is the typographical structure. The spacing is aggressive and draws attention to the font - which is undesirable for me given my reaction to the font. All your headings have what appears to be the same amount of white space above and below. It feels rather generic and rushed.

Finally the elements on the right hand side are too dominant for my liking and draw focus away from the article. Perhaps as they contain advertising material that is the intent. But it doesn't do much for me.

Take it all with a grain of salt, I think it was Keith Richards who had a comment about opinions being like... :)
You should then direct us to the beta product.. Not your Launchrock page..
Well before Apple adapted it, it was used only by a very tiny fraction of the worlds population. Apple made it a mass market success. Therefore I think it is fair to say that Apple actually invented the design. The Swiss tried but failed to make it popular. Apple did it right.
Not so sure about that. I tend to think he would have been less likely to put this new maps out though. Perhaps paid Google for a bit longer until the Apple maps were real competition.
Interchangeability is not concept in patent or trademark law that I'm aware of. Do you have a legal citation?
"Comic Sans II" - The Return of the King! :)

[Ok not quite, not close?, but thats what I feel].
There's a big difference between using consumer maps for rescue operations when no other charts are available, and flying in the UK where there are high-quality VFR and IFR paper charts (which all pilots are expected to have for any areas they're flying through, either for primary navigation or just in case the GPS dies), certified cockpit GPS data, as well as radar services available to help you find a suitable airport.
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Some of that has to be boilerplate that comes baked in, no?
"how about pointing out how EVERYTHING is a copy of everything before it in design."

That was the sensible position to take before courts started to award billions of dollars in damages for design infringements.
I think the mascot is stunning.

Its even balanced with the playful sense of minimalism of the language itself.
It was an argument in the recent Apple vs Samsung court battle. Samsung's prior art was dismissed, one of the jurors explained that it didn't count because the software of the prior art phone would not run on a modern phone.
Very nice. I'm a bit confused as to how basing this on Roslyn will allow for a MonoDevelop plugin, however. Or did Mono copy the entire Roslyn API, as well?
Has anyone here actually been on The Well? I've heard about it a few times, but never enough to decide if it's actually an interesting place.
good, I hate it when ICs get gossipy.
I love the old git site to be honest. Less eye candy but far more direct in achieving what it does. Hard to knock the domo-kun-esque mascot - with a "you'll get it when you're ready" in-joke to boot.
Facebook said it has 955MM actives, but there is no way we can prove this. Since they are a public company they could make up things just to look good you know.
I agree YouTube may not be, but search is pretty big. However, Google would have a hard time blocking google.com from iPhone users without being anticompetitive.

They can not expend the effort to create a google maps app for iphone, but that's not the same as being actively anticompetitive as they would have to be if they wanted to block search from iPhone users.
There are a lot of ways. You could have numbers with different fonts and font sizes, for examples. Digital clocks. Just check into your next warehouse, lots of different clocks available.
LIDAR itself? It doesn't really. A fleet of cars with, in addition to LIDAR, cameras that provide you with source material for as much OCRing as you have server-farms to afford? That helps.
I've been planning to do something similar, but at run-time where the last known value of each variable is shown. This would complement my stuff nicely - https://github.com/swax/CodePerspective
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So you have one bad experience with one vendor's library and you equate that with the Java language?
Backing a project and pre-ordering a product are two different things - and kickstarter doesn't want to get involved in the second part.
If you're mature enough to really start accepting preorders with a guarantee of delivery, then put up your product for sale. If you don't yet have a product to sell - that's what kickstarter is for, but then it is not a sale/preorder with a volume discount, but backing of a venture that might deliver something else, or nothing at all - i.e., you get to be an investor, not a customer.
Distribution isn't so much the problem as marketing is.

There are all kinds of ways to make your film available now, but getting people to even know that it's available, much less that they want to watch, isn't much easier than it was in the past.

Even with super-low budget films you still need to spend hundreds of thousands at a bare minimum to get people to see them. More often that figure is in the millions for theatrical releases.

I've spent a fair amount of time trying to think of a way a startup could work around this problem and promote films reliably and successfully without money. I'm not sure there is a way.

I think it's possible for select groups of filmmakers to do it. If you have a group of 4 or 5 that could turn out high quality work reliably, I think the reputation could build. But now really, you just have two problems. Marketing and finding/managing that group.
It sounds like you're a US pilot, are the regulations similar internationally?

Though I have heard of some pretty ridiculous landing decisions [1], I doubt this map error will increase Airfield's chances of someone landing there. So I totally agree, the situation described is rather preposterous.

[1] http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_northern_az/other/dps-p...
Yes, but the full on experience is the translation to full color images.

That's how the Japanese use them in their mobiles, no?
Infact linkedin is lot better these days
Making a product "popular" does not turn it into invention and does not give legal rights to the design.
Hypocrisy is the antithesis of the golden rule, which is why I tend to have a problem with it.

It's not anything that automatically refutes someones arguments, it just tells me that when it comes to that subject, they're an asshole. And when someone is being an asshole, I just don't care about their arguments.
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If I can come with a critique, your graph would look even nicer (at least to me) than it does now if you labeled your Y axis with nice round numbers rather than simply dividing your current max by 5 and using that as a step size. Round max up to some nice multiple of 5 first and then divide.
Many people accused Hitler in hypocrisy. Then he killed itself.

Sorry, it's a horrible and non-factual joke. But your theory is still wrong. There is consensus in society that racism is bad and racist with friends of other race is a classical example of hypocrisy. And if by lack of consensus you mean existence of other view then murdering example is wrong because it suppose lack of consensus and your theory is tautology.
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The stackoverflow post says that max-age=0 doesn't work for this particular case, but no-cache does.
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Interesting. It mostly read like a comparison to an Android phone from almost three years ago.
> Twitter unfollowers reporter

who.unfollowed.me has this functionality, though it's slow and sometimes unresponsive.

EDIT: I've been using it for almost a year? Never had an issue with it.