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>according to someone-or-other's law there will be a grammatical or spelling error in this comment

If you or others are curious, it is Muphry's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law)
Agreed! The thing I found most confusing in the title though is "At the same time, Bing gained 4.2% market share."

Over what period of time? I am guessing that it is over the past year but the first part specifies a rate and not a specific time interval.
The social approach is biased because one not necessarily likes what his friends like. People tend to be friend with people who have different hobbies/interests.
So people here are trying to compare this with Apple vs Samsung, but that's apples to oranges.

SBB does not claim copyright or a design patent (although to increase their chances they might claim that too). Instead SBB claims that the clock design is their trademark.

This would be similar to Samsung putting the famous bitten apple on Galaxy phones.

And the problem with trademarks is that if you don't defend it, you lose it. It's not like with patents or copyrights were you can ignore infringement or selectively sue companies, depending on how much money you can milk.
What is a software designer? Do you mean a software engineer or an interface designer?
I don't think this is just in the vein of Reddit, but just an interactive experience many expect when using comment forms. There are a few things I wouldn't mind HN grabbing from Reddit (and many more things I want to stay as far away as possible), but this was, by no means, something I thought of as an exclusively "Reddit" feature. While I understand Reddit has this capability, it's hardly specific.
> I suspect Google paid Apple to keep maps on the iPhone, and now Apple's demands were getting too much.

Good example of that weird "Google can do no wrong even though it's a company built on collecting information about users and selling it" nerd mentality. It's well known that Google was increasing it's map fees.
I'm pretty sure I've read elsewhere it was the senior design team rather than Apple's entire design team.
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>And when someone is being an asshole, I just don't care about their arguments.

But that's too bad. Better to do what a hypocrite proposes if it's the right thing, than to ignore it because of what he does.

Here's a nice article on the topic:

There are many reasons a charge of hypocrisy might be reactionary and counter-productive. First of all, the hypocrisy mindset pays too much attention to people's personal lives and too little to their programmatic or ideological outlook. If someone is a visionary, or is trying to solve a widespread problem, it's likely that his personal life will reflect the problem whereas his policies will reflect the solution. It would then be pretty stupid to accuse him of saying one thing and doing another -- especially if everyone were pretty much in the same boat, at least until an alternative infrastructure is set up. A charge of hypocrisy might well be a pre-emptive strike designed to stymie future solutions to universal problems.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of petty minds. Wanting things to be less complex, and wanting people and societies to be without internal contradictions is understandable, but small-minded. It ignores the fact that it is often only by sinning ourselves that we can learn exactly why sinning is bad. At a certain point we are all saying one thing and doing another. This is, apart from anything else, a sure sign of our complexity, and of our capacity to rise above our current way of living and search for alternatives, no matter how deeply we're mired. Allow it, brothers!

We often strike down people with a spotted reputation only to replace them with people who are unapologetically evil. We hate to be preached at so much that we ignore the sermons we need to hear and prefer unalloyed corruption. At least it's consistent, right? At least there's no hypocrisy there! At least change is taken off the agenda! Thank Christ "hypocrisy" has absolved us of the need to feel wrong, and to make a painful change!

There are 100 people in a room, all doing A Bad Thing. They know it's a bad thing, a thing that will damage the room and everyone in it, but they can't stop. Suddenly a Visionary makes a powerful and moving speech. "We must stop doing The Bad Thing!" he says. His speech is effective: everyone stops. Except the Visionary himself, who keeps doing it. This, however, is a minor detail: the room is a better, safer place. Instead of 100 people doing The Bad Thing, only one is doing it. Suddenly a Commentator gets up. "Suckers!" he shouts. "You've stopped doing The Bad Thing, but the man who made you stop still does it! You've been had... by a hypocrite!" Soon everyone in the room is doing The Bad Thing again.

But tell me, please, who has damaged the room more, the Visionary or the Commentator? Who has the best chance of helping the room?

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I never claimed it didn't work. I claimed the UI was bulky. Try having to work with 20 projects folders with millions of .java files and constantly having to sideways scroll.
Brafton's editorial reads like a press release from Mircosoft Bing. The premise is that Bing is growing in the month of August and that Google is losing market share. The analysis of Bing being a contender seems very premature considering many technical people reviewing their analytics will see a minute portion of their traffic comes from Bing vs. Google.

This kind of promotion is unlikely to make developers make the switch, but I am interested -- maybe the short-term lose of Google could be explained by the gain of Duckduckgo. That's the bias I would editorialize.
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Not surprised it came from data-obsessed McKinsey
Hypocrisy is better than some alternatives...
Is Compete's data reliable? If it is reliable, is it useful?

Does anyone know if Jeff Atwood's (2009) post about Google providing 99% of their traffic is still relevant, or was ever relevant outside a small community?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/the-elephant-in-the...
or if you ask comscore, Google is up 1.6% year over year and Bing is up 1.2%.

This site seems rather sleazy (even) for HN, but these "market research firms" definitely remain useless.
Considering how much Bing advertises and Google doesn't, it must have cost Microsoft a fortune to increase Bing by 4.2%.
If anything, it would be nice just to have the top bar that can redirect back to the comments section of the article along with the submitted title. I tend to go through and click a bunch of links and then go through them in order to avoid the "unknown or expired link" error and it would be nice to have a little memory jolt to remind me why I was there in the first place!
> cribbing industrial design elements from defunct products

Here in Switzerland you see clocks like these in pretty much every train station. I wouldn't call it exactly a "defunct" product. Mondaine sells this same design in a variety of products: just do a google image search and you will see some of those.

...and it's not that SBB is suing apple over the concept of a "numberless clock face with highly contrasting colors". They just look exactly the same. And when that's the case, I guess there's not much one can say.
Translation: adopting the marketing/business fad of the day is important for your company even if it has no relation to your business whatsoever.
The article doesn't mention a rate at all or show data prior to 2011, so the headline should really be comparing differences between 2012 and 2011 and not mention 'rate'.

I found Compete data for 2009-2010 (http://media.marketwire.com/attachments/201009/MOD-13263_ima...) and have copied it below.

Aug 2009 72.6%

Aug 2010 70.1% (-2.5%)

Aug 2011 68.3% (-1.8%)

Aug 2012 65.7% (-2.6%)

So, the percentage indicated in the headline isn't horribly inaccurate (Google's share also dropped by 2.5% between 2009 and 2010 and averages a 2.3% drop in market share per year over the past three years.)
>you've got street view like imagery for every major city on the planet in 10 days.

It took Google years to get Street View right, with massive amount of engineering talent and financial capital committed along the way.

12 months would be extremely challenging even for Apple. As for 10 days... well let's just say I'd be a bit unhappy, if ChuckMcM was my program manager :p
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I'm somewhat sceptical about an article with the word "math" in its title that says, in the opening paragraph, that 3.7x10^(-99) is "a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe".
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> Responses to this method are not cacheable, unless the response includes appropriate Cache-Control or Expires header fields.

The response does not include a cache-control or expires header, as such the method is not cacheable. iOS is in violation with the specification if that's what iOS does and the above specification is the reference.
When I read your comment I agreed. After reading the many comments down-thread which missed rather obvious sarcasm, I reluctantly disagree.
> I'm not sure if this is a valid legal argument

Well, a tribute isn't a legal thing (and trademark and patent infringement is not stealing). But yes, it'd be hard to see a design patent on the clock effecting a representation of the clock drawn on a screen (and any patent would in any case have long since expired) and trade dress and other consumer confusion stuff certainly wouldn't apply, as no-one is confused by the iPad into thinking it's a wall clock from the 40s.
Yeah, I was surprised at the length of time they recommend -- 10 hours/week for 7 weeks (for the developer course). 70 hours? I would think you could get productive in this in much less time.
I have experience with the regulations in South Africa, but they are similar internationally as a result of co-operation through the ICAO and other agencies. Most of the world also follows the lead of the US FAA and European JAA in terms of civil aviation regulations.

And yes, pilots have had to make some bizarre emergency landings over the years, but if you're in a situation where the engine quits and you have to get on the ground safely quick the last thing you'll be doing is looking down at your phone or tablet. So yep, preposterous.
Dressup dolls != action figures or LEGO figs.

By dressup dolls I thought I clearly conveyed the idea of dolls whose design and accessories are all about dressing them up with clothing, makeup and fashion accessories. Not guns. Not tools. Not Batman-like gadgets/vehicles. Dressup dolls. Think Barbie dolls. The point being that dressup dolls and babies appeals to a large percentage of (but not necessarily all) actual real-life girls whereas action figures and guns appeal to a large percentage of (but not necessarily all) actual real-life boys. But you don't see people complaining about the lack of the latter for girls.

"Why aren't there more toy Glocks marketed for girls like my little Suzy?" - a concerned suburban mom, nowhere
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Alexa reports rapid increase for Bing and a rapid decline for Google:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bing.com#

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/google.com#

I am curious what caused this.
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Can't wait to read this study.

The simple and unpleasant truth, as past research has shown, is that so much business, irrespective of its legality, is conducted using shells, so much wealth moves through them and into tax havens, it is unthinkable to shut the system down; doing so would probably hurt our economies more than help them. No one dares to mess with this beast. At least not in my lifetime.

And guess who needs untraceable shell companies? Patent trolls.
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they slowly making a usable app!!
This is kind of neat. It would be even better if it let you work with the returns of each stock, rather than just with the price. In my experience most technical strategies work better, and are more stable, when they work with data in return space rather than price space.
This article has a good point - better than you'd think from reading the quotes in the comments.

It's rather easy to fool yourself into thinking that you want to do what you're currently doing, or the thing that you've already sunk time and effort into. It's rather easy to fool yourself into thinking you want to be a great writer, when actually you just want to have people respect you.

A bit of time spend honestly examining whether there's a path you'd rather your life was taking is rarely wasted - not least because if you conclude that you're on the right track, it's a good way to quiet nagging doubts.

OTOH, as dkarl says, we don't always feel the same way about what we love, either, and that's worth remembering too.
It gives you building shapes and locations.
Didn't see any reliance on a maps app for emergency navigation. In the one example the pilots printed out an image from Google Earth as a guide to the terrain of the landing area, they still used their eyes and brains to decide how to land once they got there. In the other they used the app to locate street addresses, but that wasn't critical navigation and the same could've been achieved with a standard street map.

I have yet to hear of any pilot relying on a maps app like Google Maps in an emergency.
I agree that the first number shouldn't be a rate. x per y implies a rate though like 26 kilometres per hour or 16 miles per gallon.
That's what we're hoping, too. Mythly is at least unique and haven't run into too many people forgetting it.

"Focus on value" is great advice and very much inline with YC's mantra of "build something people want". Thankfully, our prototypes have had some consistently positive reactions. Now we just need to build something that is strong enough to be released on the app store or showcase our talent in a more scalable fashion.
Good god that is awesome.
I followed it closely. "Design" patents in general are ridiculous.
Holy shit, design nerds, apple fans/bashers, and clock enthusiasts all up in arms in one thread!

Personally, this walking stereotype wishes that the cnet article had been typeset in Comic Sans so that the typeophiles could get outraged too.
We could probably get the answer by hanging out on an ESL forum for a bit, that's assuming it's non-native English speakers who are making this mistake (it might not be!).
How is this interesting?
wow this is insane!
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I'm always tempted to try it but Fantasy Baseball always seems like too much of a full time job to me. Do you set your lineups on a weekly basis or is it something that requires daily attention?
just use maps.google.com in mobile safari, it works just as well as the old app.
can you give some examples of statistical advances from physics?
It's redistribution from heavier than average carbon users to lower than average carbon users.
Just encrypt the traffic.
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I'm not sure where the 400 year aspect comes from, but this is probably one of the best bits of technical writing I've read on the whole iOS6 Maps issues.
Love and hate are emotions taking you away from the real question - is this the right thing for you to do.

If this one thing is your deliberate decision and goal then forget about emotions. Just do it.
Yeah, this seems to be something of a gray area. Not quite fraud, but heading very pointedly in that direction. Perhaps someone more familiar with relevant law knows of a term? Or maybe we should start thinking about inventing one.
I think that's still under 1%, which is awesome it's getting that big, but wouldn't be enough here. The other complicating factor is that yahoo is either down a little (compete) or down a lot (comscore).
The difference between "senior" and "industrial" is substantial, but regardless of which is the case, everyone commenting in this thread is an asshole.
RFC 2616 Section 14.9.1 states:

14.9.1 What is Cacheable

By default, a response is cacheable if the requirements of the
request method, request header fields, and the response status
indicate that it is cacheable.

Section 9.5 (for the POST request method):

Responses to this method are not cacheable, unless the response
includes appropriate Cache-Control or Expires header fields. However,
the 303 (See Other) response can be used to direct the user agent to
retrieve a cacheable resource.

Responses to the POST request method are not cacheable by default according to the spec.
It is a bug to ignore the max-age parameter that is presently widely used.
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Why all the hate for "Big Data"? Other than that it is a shiny MBA term that cannot, god forbid be part of hacker terminology.

Lets focus on the Enterprise tools sector, since this is a large, rich market that is yet to be tapped properly. Imagine every single piece of data from customer contact points to orders to cases to actual product usage. Imagine being able to use a tool that can take all this data and show it in pretty graphs that you can use to decide how many millions to spend where. We dont have these tools today. Oracle's BI is bloated, and there honestly are not that many tools out there that can process large amounts of data while integrating successfully with a thousand different other tools that generate this data. Every single system now tracks data..but it goes nowhere, just a large tape to be stored away into eternity while the decision makers are still struggling with massive excel sheets.

Custom solutions become obsolete as soon as one of the other systems get upgraded, so this is a great opportunity for a cloud or packaged software. And for those of you who dont want to work in backend data processing, understand that the biggest component of Big Data is the UI - The data needs to be presented in the most useful manner possible.
Regardless of the context I'd actually say yes.
This looks awful. Buy some Lego instead.
The article has no mention of why this is a 400 year advantage - or how long it will take for Apple to get over this.

He lays out very well that a human element is required to bring these streams of data together. And Apple is not a company with the DNA of big data.

Just algorithmic manipulation of the data is not possible or sufficient - they will need an army to integrate these streams and bring them up to par. And Apple is even less happy to deal with an Army than Google was.
Ah, I misread your question.

According to their notes, "Rather than a single touchscreen controller, Apple went with a multi-chip solution to handle the larger screen size, à la iPad.".

But I'd guess that it's not (just) the size that makes them use two chips; since they're different chips they probably have different strenghts and weaknesses. Or maybe just having two different representations of each touch make it possible to be more accurate.
Buy Lego friends. They're pretty good 'girlie' sets.
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Yes the consumer web offering is free (and includes Google ads) and is still available through the browser on iOS 6.

You are wrong about the revenue direction. Apple were a significant provider of revenue to Google for map usage. Below is just the article I picked but Googling for 'google maps ios revenue' brings up quite a number.

http://www.ijailbreak.com/news/apple-ios-40-google-mobile-re...

I suspect Apple were upset at the limitations believed to be imposed on them by the Google contract (no turn by turn) and it was expiring anyway. It was probably negotiated when they had no idea how sucessful the iPhone was going to be. Google probably also wanted more control to insert advertising and the fact the two firms are now competitors in mobile OS's and at legal loggerheads made agreement unlikely.
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Lego Friends has been selling ridiculously well. They're making lots more sets to keep up with the unprecedented demand.
No, he's saying that the operation you perform to truncate the former to the latter is the operation you would logically expect to perform (i.e. removing the trailing comma), which makes the thing a string.

He's not actually proposing that a string be a tuple. He's just saying that a single element enclosed in parentheses doesn't work the way you'd expect it.
So that mckinsey can Steal more money by sending those BigData Expert MBAs.
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A great start to an article that I'm skeptical about in its entirety.
That website for Requests to me is a great example that you don't have to choose between being beautiful and being functional.
They are. It's just ironic this is happening.

Honestly, I'm expecting these things to happen more and more as people look at Apple with a finer-tooth'd comb, what with the general view of Apple gradually diminishing.
These are great comments, appreciate the feedback. Now to get coding! :)
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Really? Why are we arseholes? Because we pointed out there was a flaw in the article? Letting the title run as it stands implying that the entire Apple design team is 16 people would be, well, wrong.
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I wonder if they all took separate flights, because of the danger to Apple of having them all on one flight. What if there was a tragic plane crash? Apple could end up like Lynyrd Skynyrd.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynyrd_skynyrd
In my opinion, Kickstarter is just a futures market for Goods/Services. When they come out and say, "What are the risks and challenges this project faces, and what qualifies you to overcome them?", it just sounds like Futures are dangerous, risky, and you might loose your money.

I don't think you can call them a traditional store, but you can definitely call them a Futures Store.
I had a Pandora account long before they bowed to the music cartel and restricted access to anyone outside the US.

I am now in an odd situation where I cannot login to change my password, or delete my account (not that I trust any delete account functions these days anyway).

Is there anyone here working for Pandora that could help me?
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Yet another vote for the Thinkpad X220. Made the move from a Macbook myself about six months ago. Tried out a long list of distributions and just about everything works out of the box if you're using a desktop environment like KDE. I'm now running Arch and Openbox which takes a bit of configuring but it makes for the quickest laptop I've ever owned. I won't deny OSX is a good, polished operating system but I can honestly say there's nothing I miss about it. I love the simplicity and the control Linux gives you over the system and I think Apple bury a lot of the nitty gritty but that's quite understandable really. Sure, there's been plenty of roadblocks along the way but I've enjoyed solving problems when they come up. More than anything, running Linux has provided a valuable learning experience.
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> The OP's point is that this feels a lot like Antennagate 2010, where a large number of non-Apple users latched onto the fact that there was something wrong with Apple products, and complained louder than the actual Apple users.

The difference here is that there actually was something wrong with the iPhone rather than people having a preference to using Google Maps. Apple is banking on turn-by-turn keeping enough people at by until they're able to squash the shortcomings.
TIL about Google Map Maker. Just corrected a few issues in my neighborhood, they got approved, I wonder when they get into Google Maps. Anyone knows how long it takes? Google's email sent to me just says "Soon you will be able to see your edit live on Google Maps."