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Apple had over a year left on Google Maps contract(theverge.com)
23 points by bitcartel 14y ago|1 comments
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by bitcartel 14y ago
If you use FileVault on your main drive or on your Time Machine, here are some tips I picked up on Lion, which might make your life easier. Things may have changed, but should still apply to Mountain Lion. On each machine you have, downloa
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by bitcartel 14y ago
It was real enough that Apple settled a class action lawsuit over the dodgy antenna. http://articles.cnn.com/2012-02-20/tech/tech_mobile_iphone-4...
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by bitcartel 14y ago
Maybe this is as good as it gets. "Sources tell The Verge that Apple began work on the iOS 6 maps system nearly five years ago" http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/20/3363914/wrong-turn-apple-i...
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by bitcartel 14y ago
Tourists and expats are going to have issues in some countries, take for example Thailand. http://imgur.com/7gkgx Google Maps has street names in both Thai and English, whereas Apple Maps only has Thai.
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by bitcartel 14y ago
Good spot. Now folk like to claim that the bigger screen on the iPhone is better than the even bigger screen on non-iPhones. It's absurd.
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by bitcartel 14y ago
Bitbucket offers unlimited private git repos for individuals and small teams (upto 5 people) with no limits on storage... for free. https://bitbucket.org/plans/
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Mike Daisey: Don't pre-order the iPhone 5, the ethical choice is to wait(mikedaisey.blogspot.com)
1 points by bitcartel 14y ago|0 comments
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by bitcartel 14y ago
Such breathless writing, matched only by the official marketing department. "iPhone 5 is made with a level of precision you’d expect from a finely crafted watch — not a smartphone. Never before has this degree of fit and finish been applied
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by bitcartel 14y ago
Some interesting background - Ceph and Inktank have roots in DreamHost. http://blog.dreamhost.com/2012/05/04/our-babys-all-grown-up/
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by bitcartel 14y ago
@enneff Do you know if they are using the default gc compiler, or gccgo which is supposed to have better optimisation?
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by bitcartel 14y ago
Another juror sheds more light on what happened. The foreman's view on prior art had a big impact. "We were debating heavily, especially about the patents on bounce-back and pinch-to-zoom. Apple said they owned patents, but we were debatin
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by bitcartel 14y ago
As the saying goes, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Jury foreman says Apple patents valid due to different processor architecture
151 points by bitcartel 14y ago|75 comments
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I would agree. He's essentially writing opinion pieces and preaching to the choir. Nothing wrong with that and his audience enjoy his work regardless of objectivity. I think any half-decent tech blogger or journalist should be fighting for
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by bitcartel 14y ago
+1 How many of these blogger/journalists have broken real stories? Future of Mac Pro anybody? Sure, they like to name drop and whisper about 'informed sources' but the truth is they have nothing of substance to report. Everything is goss
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by bitcartel 14y ago
Email Service Provider?
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by bitcartel 14y ago
I did think about putting in some "useful" code, like encrypting data, but then people would be complaining about the implementation of the crypto libraries. The point was to demonstrate how easy it is to block the Node event loop, and the
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by bitcartel 14y ago
Author here. Go is easier. As demonstrated, a single Go process can take advantage of multiple cores on a single machine. With Node you launch multiple Node processes, one for each core, and manage them with the Cluster package. To take a