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Technology is the future. If by stagnation of tech you mean people trying to found the next Instagrams and Facebook's of the world then perhaps you might be right but if you know how to code in Ruby on Rails, Node.JS and can write HTML/CSS you can build your own startup for next to nothing.

I do think some kind of bubble is about to burst, but I see a tech bubble bursting as an opportunity for others with real ideas to have their moment in the sun. When you think about it, the financial and tech sectors are closely tied together, feeding off of one another. Venture capitalists make their money investing and startups make their bread and butter from said investment.
All Google needs to do now is make a way to open the app from within Google search (the Web app), and I will be happy again.
"This item is temporarily unavailable."

"Try again later."
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I believe not all CDN's have received the app yet, any minute. Hilarious how excited everyone is... App of the Year 2012... LOL
Would you be less disappointed if they waited another month or two to release both together?
Beautiful app. They've clearly been working on this a long time.
I disagree that the idea of a family residence is from a time long gone

Agree, but Nobody is arguing/describing this. My point was if you are overconsuming (buying too much house), you are delaying ownership and extending payment, such that you never really get clear of the debt. A 30 year mortgage taken on at 35 needs you working at the same job until 65. But careers are no longer so stable, in this regards at all, or so it seems lookinga around the West. It also leaves precious minimum left to pay for college. In the example of 22-52, you had 13 years free to pay/save/recover from your housing expenditure to pay for schooling of your kids. This would require taking out a 15 year mortgage at 35, and that would be smarter. But many people could not then afford the payments....

This is part of the reason people have overbid for housing. The other reasons are social/signalling, etc. But that is as old as forever...think of all the nobles in europe living with massive debts, etc...
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Also, double tap and hold, move up and down to zoom. Full one handed operation FTW.
I am from Indiana and I drive everywhere in Austin. However, I also live near a bus stop... just in case! There is plenty of parking except when South by Southwest Interactive is in town (1 week out of the year.)

Weather is similar to what I had growing up in Indiana, so it doesn't bother me at all.

I just paid my last year of taxes in California, and living here will save me over $30,000 a year in state income tax alone. That is probably what you will save as a dual-income household in the Bay Area. The savings more than pays my mortgage and utilities for a house close to downtown in a good neighborhood.
Yes: that was actually what I was intending to imply; specifically, that Google wasn't blazing trails here nor are they being given special exceptions.
Tap a named location (such as a business), or tap-and-hold on a location to drop a pin, tap the name plate that appears at the bottom of the screen, then tap Street View.
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So a question I have for some people more knowledgable than me in the iOS system:

Now that we have an apple maps program, and various competitors including and not limited to google; we also have a chrome (and other) iOS browsers to compete with safari (and yes, I understand it's really just skinned web kit) and a new default video player,

Is this situation not akin to the anti-trust wars that threatened to consume Microsoft a decade ago?

For instance, they (the apple defaults) are all installed by default, and they remain the default option: for example if you receive an address (either physical or web) in messenger or whatsapp or whatever, iOS will attempt to recognise it and make it a hyperlink, but it will then open in the apple default app - if you want it to open in say chrome or google maps you have to copy and paste it.

So- is this the same as the anti-trust case against Microsoft?
Will apple ever change the default program?
Or will my next phone be an android..
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Whoohoo! I can finally dump Apple Maps in my iCrap folder.
Try telling that to a Forth programmer. ;)

But seriously, now. Reverse Polish notation is plenty intuitive as long as you don't get too crazy with what you put on the stack.

For example,

(7**3 + 9*7) / 2

might be rendered:

7 3 ** 9 7 * + 2 /

That is, "Take 7 and 3 and exponentiate, take 9 and 7 and multiply, then add the two numbers, take the answer and 2 and divide." Parentheses or extra spacing could easily be used to increase readability (though parentheses are never required in RPN; they're purely aesthetic), if that's too much to swallow:

(((7 3 **) (9 7 *) +) 2 /)

...But really it's just a matter of what you're used to.

P.S. You'll notice that with parentheses RPN looked remarkably Lisp-like. This isn't a coincidence. The core difference between prefix notation as used by Lisp and RPN is that operators in RPN may only take two arguments (it's more complicated in languages like Forth, but since we're talking about arithmetic here we can safely make this assertion). This is the tradeoff RPN makes: losing the ability to have n number of arguments per operator, for the ability to ditch those parentheses for good.

It should also be clear that one could easily have a Lisp-like syntax similar in appearance to the RPN with parentheses above (though with Lisp's ability to have more than two arguments), but just happening to put operators at the end. Conversely, one could have an RPN where operators are at the front, which is actually the concept behind Polish notation, where RPN stems from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation

On a final note, since RPN is read from left-to-right exclusively, a speaker of an RTL language would actually be worse off. The perceived unintuitiveness is more because English is a subject-verb-object language, whereas RPN is subject-object-verb.
+1 Those that don't learn from history are destined to repeat it
I think you're likely to get a variety of ranges from the answers here, due to natural biological variation. I can't say for sure, but I suspect that the common theme here will end up being that people do feel that the number of hours that they sleep is important in how it affects their work (which is reasonable, since the act of coding is a mentally strenuous act).

I'm a bit curious now, I wonder how many people here try to wake up naturally.. personally, I consider that to be pretty reliable in forecasting my day's productivity.
The primary difference is that it's Apple's software going on Apple's own hardware, rather than Microsoft requiring that manufactures installing Windows on their systems include their web browser as well.
Would you make your DNA and health data public to help cure disease?
They say this is 'peer-reviewed' but is that all? If someone sends them a pull request for an update to a widely used but perhaps smaller library, will they review it or does it just get merged into the CDN? It seems like a good way to get access to millions of browser sessions. Is anyone in Cloudfare taking responsibility for checking that the code is coming from the authoritative repo and not joeblow/underscore.js?

https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs#pull-requests-steps

While Google and Microsoft are slower to update their libs, we can assume that they are downloading releases from official sources.
That's very interesting (and useful) information. It sounds like it's not "Popular Urban Locations" but instead, a "subset of popular urban location" - Perhaps I guess I need to be very specific and say in the Bay Area (Everywhere, all the way down to Gilroy).

Your experience, though, explains why Tim Cook felt he needed to apologize.

Locally (Redwood City, Foster City, Mountain View) I prefer to use the IOS 6 Mapping application on my iPhone 5, than, rather than, side-by-side, the IOS 5 Mapping application on an iPhone 4S. Forgetting about Turn-by-Turn (which is the obvious and clear advantage of IOS 6 Mapping) - the super twitchy-fast vector Maps in IOS 6 Maps, not to mention their offline presence made all the difference. Particularly if you get into a sketchy cell area, where the old IOS 5 maps was basically "No Maps" - compared to the IOS 6 Maps which are "No Internet connection required, here are your maps."

While in Redwood City, I send all sorts of queries out to Siri like "Directions to Waterfront Pizza" (It picks the right one up in Foster City), and "Directions to 3463 Page Street" (It's intelligent enough to use the Page Street in Redwood City) - I use maps a lot, and haven't seen any regression beyond what I would see in google maps. IOS 6 maps is as close to flawless as a generic mapping application needs to be for my use in the peninsula area.

I wonder if Apple did something remarkably stupid, and only optimized the Bay Area? If so, then they deserve all the bad press they've received over their mapping application.

It might be interesting to have some third-party do a "Here are 1000 typical queries in 100 typical urban locations" and come back with a scorecard. Given that Apple is pulling a lot of data from TomTom for IOS 6 maps, I would be surprise to see their results much poorer than what TomTom would do give directly.
You're probably right. Especially if you're involved in one of those. I'm not, so it's a side of Flickr I don't see.
Apple's market share in smartphones also pales in comparison to the Microsoft's dominance in desktop computing during that era.
And Apple doesn't have 95% of the phone market.
It's quite interesting to hear how the genius idea of a bar code was conceived by dragging four fingers in the sand. It's quite amazing that such an invention which I think is pretty revolutionary and is on everything these days is something not many people think about. "Who invented the bar code?" isn't a question that I've ever heard or seen anyone ask.
Google Maps for iOS Now Live in App Store
I agree. I assumed that was an error at first, but he kept doing it.
Not an accidental similarity, Douglas Crockford credits Rebol as an influence for json.

https://erikeldridge.wordpress.com/tag/crockford/
Trending airlines? O_o
The App Store adds restrictions that are incompatible with the GPL. Who exactly "cares" is somewhat irrelevant.
A brief calculation assuming:
- first 100 000 purchases without THQ president intervention between 3 and 5 dollars
- 10k intervention at 100 000 point
- subsequent purchases made above average pricing
seem to indicate the 10k THQ "push" made the average price jump 10 cents at least (conservative estimation), providing a resulting boost in profit of 70 000 dollars (again, conservative estimation, probably).

http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user7-h9oPfIQh4l-0.py

Somehow I do not think the Humble Bundle should allow the creators/publishers to modify the average price since it's more or less like insider trading in the stock echange: once you modify the average price you reap the profits - it's highly unethical and here it clearly shows the 10k expense from THQ president made a 60k profit for THQ.
Google Voice for example. Apple felt that another app having a dialer would be confusing to users. I'm not sure what excuse they'd have to block Google Maps, given the large selection of mapping apps available, but I wouldn't put it past them to come up with something.
GamePro is, as far as I know, the originator, so sometime between 1989 and 1994 (first time I remember it). So, yeah, about two decades. :)
Had Mr. Woodland not been a Boy Scout, had he not logged hours on the beach and had his father not been quite so afraid of organized crime, the code would very likely not have been invented in the form it was, if at all.

...As a Boy Scout he learned Morse code, the spark that would ignite his invention....

-- Interesting note on the origin of invention.
Douglas Crockford says JSON was influenced by REBOL.
My impression is the opposite - Google Maps' data is so much better that it hardly matters, but this app seriously lacks polish. For instance, it's laggy - iOS 6 Maps doesn't always make 60fps, which is a shame, but this app doesn't even try. Simply panning around (on my 4S) is enough to produce serious stuttering; even the simple transition to the side menu is not smooth. Or consider Street View, which is missing the signature transition as you "move" from one place to another.

edit: Opening the side menu, for its matter, visually seems to depend on hitting a tiny tap target; there is hidden space to the left of the target but not above it, which is the natural place I tried tapping. The menu itself is weirdly designed (giant spacing) and prone to accidental dismissal by someone trying to scroll it.

No bookmarks either.
They also have a more recent history of literally promoting "competing" maps applications in the App Store after a botched launch of Apple Maps.
I think what you're talking about is just that: history. There is a slew of email, weather, web browsers etc. All in the App Store competing with their native versions. There have been for a while.
Well, partially available - I'm seeing "The item you tried to buy is no longer available" thanks to the wonky ITMS CDN.
A sigh of relief! Finally I can upgrade to ios6.
Probably eventual Google Now support.
And now its saying "no longer available"...
I have no legal basis for this, but my theory is that as long as Apple keeps up a high level of quality, nobody will care enough to fight it.

This is probably why there was no drama with Google releasing maps: Apple knew they were beat, so they did nothing to stop it.
We've supported bumping photos to your PC for months now. Go check out http://bu.mp on your browser.
With the way their CDN is getting hammered, it's gonna be a million downloads in the first hour.
Notice the last screenshot preview of the app? Interestingly, it is the iPad aspect ratio. So I'm sure it's just simply not yet ready for public release.
This is something that can be surprisingly hard to grok for someone immersed in the SF startup crowd, where everyone uses an iPhone and a MacBook.
What I picked from it besides the main subject is this:

> "A while back it was PHP in favour of static HTML, then Python in favour of PHP. Lately it’s been Ruby on Rails or node.js in favour of Python … in the future, who knows. I hear Scala is becoming very popular"

As a Scala fan I could't be happier if it's indeed going to pick up for web dev the way Ruby and Python did (in a myriad of frameworks), but is this indeed the general sentiment nowadays? I'll be more than happy if Play framework gets some of the Rails and Django community to help it grow the way the latter two have in recent years.
Google Maps Now Available for iPhone
I tried to go to an address about 2 miles from Cupertino - and Apple maps redirected me to the exact same address, except in the city next door.
You can also find this feature in the PayPal Here app.
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That would be the eBay solution, right? Make life hard on the vendor and easy on the consumer. Unfortunately, eBay is very successful despite the imbalance. Kickstarter has survived without really picking sides on this issue, but they're ultimately going to have to define their position a little more firmly and make sure both sides are getting the same message, loud and clear. If they make launching a kickstarter twice as onerous, they need to be sure they can lose half their projects. If they aim to make investments succeed less than 50% of the time, they need to be sure they can lose half their users. If they don't take a firm position one way or the other, they'll just come across as unreliable.

The annoying thing about educating your users is you're never done.
Physical bumping is important. We use the sensor data on the devices bumping at the time of bump to determine if two devices match.
> It is positively beautiful for public transport. It shows the next service leaving and how far (time) it is.

It's quite amusing to see how excited people are about this when this has been available with Google Maps on Android since 2009 (IIRC). I remember I used my Galaxy Nexus to navigate NYC for a whole week with public transit without ever asking a person for directions.
It's a nice idea, but it looks like you're just querying http://www.soundcat.ch/ and then taking the file and playing it back, correct? I noticed in the Chrome developer console I can click a link right to download the MP3 of the song. For example I searched, "atlantic thrice" and it worked, but I could also get the song by going: http://www.soundcat.ch/download.php?id=163850

I also noticed that playback stops and a it tries to load the file from a domain: mystuffsite.ch and I get a 404 error. Not sure what is going on there. I also think some improvements could be a play and stop button, the ability to create a simple playlist and perhaps save it using HTML5 localStorage.
I would dissociate "publisher" and "assets". Even if THQ dies their assets will be passed on to someone else. You rarely see IP completely disappear, just like you do not always see factories being demolished when a company bankrupts. Honestly this is probably better at this stage to see THQ go bankrupt since they have been poor at managing their assets, and let someone else take control and hopefully make more money out of their assets.
If you have any problems with compiling your typescript, and google 'ts compilation' to help, the only help you'll get is a whole lot of unrelated (quite NSFW) video links.

Nothing comes up in image search, at least (not with SafeSearch on, anyway) so their recent changes probably don't affect their regular web search.
I always thought it was wonderfully ludicrous :)
Just buy an Android. You can configure what browser opens links. You can configure what map application opens maps. You can configure what video player opens videos.

Yes, this is much like Microsoft a decade ago; in fact, it's worse, the iOS offers significantly less choice than Windows did back then; you could develop your own software for your own computer without joining a restrictive developer program from Microsoft.

If you don't like it, my recommendation is that you don't buy into it. Get an Android. I've been perfectly happy with mine.
I know I should just go read the code, but any insight into what the difference is?
The app does not show up on search yet. However, I was able to install it by:

* Open up App Store

* Search for Chrome

* Click on Chrome to bring up the app page

* Select Related tab

* On "More By Google" section, click see all

* On the list of Google Apps that appear, Google Maps is at the very bottom... Click on the "FREE" or "INSTALL" button to install. Alternatively, click on the item to bring up the app page for Google Maps
Try turning off wifi, and downloading over cell radio.

Worked for me on a an AT&T 4S. (Maybe it hits a different CDN server?)

Also, app is only 6.7MB, pretty svelte!
No, but there are some really interesting fractal image compression algorithms that can do that and "synthesize" more detail than is in the original:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression#Resolution_...
It was available on iOS until iOS 6
> Again. Google Street View cars are NOT going around continuously updating data.

I think you might be a little bit dated in your understanding. Google any random city on maps.google.com. Look at the fine print at the bottom: "Map data ©2012 Google"

I remember what that used to say a 4-5 years back. Copyright NAVTEQ. They have been quite busy.
It would be reasonable to have something more sophisticated, like heroku's status page, which has both text/timestamp information and graphical representations of status. If you have an API, reporting deeper info about each part of the API is also a good idea.

It still should probably be a static page, but updated frequently and by automatic tools.
For the side menu, try swiping left near the icon, like it's a "handle" to pull out the menu. Works for me, and it seems to be how they're distinguishing "open the menu" vs. "pan the map left"
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<<nothing related to what you said, just a general comment>>

If more people just bought what they liked, shut the hell about it, and didn't rage jihad against the opposite platform, the internet would be WAY better.
Isn't r/WTF missing from this picture?
> No bookmarks either.

I think for bookmarks, you have to sign in (with your Google account, or a dummy one) and save them in your account. Not sure though, haven't tried yet (and probably won't, as I don't need it).

And I agree about polish. You have a 4S. I have a 4. It barely makes 20 fps.
That's not for google to decide unfortunately, not for safari anyways but with the new SDK, it might work in Chrome for iOS.
Yep, me too. I have an iphone 4/iOS5 and have also delayed upgrading to iOS6 due to the bad press and my need of transit directions. I have a car too, but I frequently ride the bus to the airport for longer trips.

And I still might wait for some google maps app reviews before I upgrade...
That it is. I'm not sure about the playback stopping either. It's just a quick hack to provide a cleaner interface amidst cluttered interfaces like that of Grooveshark and Spotify. I tried to minimize extra features in favor of that minimalism.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-maps/id585027354?mt=8
Oh... I didn't realize it was a handle. It looks too much like a vertical ellipsis.
I'm with you guys. Do we all not exercise? :-)

I ask because during times when I get regular strenuous exercise this number comes down to about 7.5-8 hours.
Yup, that worked! Finally, there is no longer a phantom train station on top of my house!
there is a cost of living in a modern society. Money pays for shelter. Money pays for healthcare. Money pays for education and food.

That's a good argument for a guaranteed minimum income. It's a bad argument for a minimum wage laws, because at least sometimes they result in people earning zero instead of low wages.

And unless you're in a socialist system, that money comes from wages.

We're already in a partly socialist system. Minimum wage laws are a convoluted and inefficient form of welfare; it's better to just directly give money to poor people, and then avoid doing anything that interferes with their ability to increase their income.
I wake early and go to bed late, it's a bad routine I can't get out of. So I get about 5.5, sometimes 6 hours of sleep a night. Believe it or not, the human body can adopt to sleeping patterns remarkably well. I always have energy, never feel tired or have any health problems as a result of sleeping so little. Anything under 5 and no doubt I'd feel like crap, but I seriously doubt anyone out there can survive on less than that without feeling tired.
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Contributors generally include the links to the official sources.

If not we track down the official repositories ourselves.

Once we have verified the source, we then check the diff against the submitted and official. We have always flirted with the idea of a level of automation to handle this. But your comment addresses the problem with a solution such as that so we are still manually diff checking for maximum security.
Indeed. I took out all of the default subreddits because they added too much noise - everyone starts out subscribed to all of them.
Google Maps iOS app released
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