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by darren_ 9y ago
disclaimer: I work on google maps > Several months after Apple Maps became the default, something like 2/3rds of all users switched away from Google Maps. When Apple Maps 'became the default', what actually happened was it
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Google Denies Claims of Desktop Google Revamp(arstechnica.com)
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by darren_ 9y ago
The bit about adding it to the website seems like a misinterpretation/over-extrapolation of something said in a briefing about it, specifically that the news feed would be brought to mobile web browsers 'in some form' (see qu
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by darren_ 9y ago
I doubt this anecdote. There was no such test in 2011, and I haven't heard any tales from older timers about it either. It sounds like it's conflating some totally optional style-guide-conformance procedures you can do, with permi
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by darren_ 9y ago
No idea this person's track record (nor the record of the japanese writer being cited) but this site asserts that all iPhones 7 have the same NFC chip and that a future iOS version (11?) will enable it worldwide. https://ata
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by darren_ 9y ago
Huh, there actually used to be a real benefit - free Drive storage upgrades once you hit a certain tier. Guess things got popular enough they ditched it. (disclaimer: work on maps, nothing to do with guides tho)
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by darren_ 9y ago
I think it's a YMMV thing. I'm at google, and I'm pretty certain that a lot of my improvement as a programmer came from time spent posting/irc-ing with the SA programmer crew, to the degree that I don't think I woul
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by darren_ 10y ago
Rollout.io has been offering a product that leverages this to 'hotpatch' binaries, but it looks like this is now considered not in the spirit of the guidelines. Technicals here: https://rollout.io/blog/under-t
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by darren_ 10y ago
GBA sp, new 3ds. It's not unheard of.
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by darren_ 10y ago
Does the transit layer in google maps (hamburger menu->Public transit) work for you? It doesn't _always_ show all transit stations regardless of zoom level because, to be blunt, that's impossible (degenerate case: zoom out to t
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by darren_ 10y ago
The title is "Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z" but the content is just a microbenchmark of fsync() without anything resembling a measurement of UI lag or that the 10x slowdown in fsync() actually means a 10x (or any) in
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by darren_ 10y ago
This whole thing seems to be based on that rather inaccurate article from the other day about not being able to deactivate location tracking on android, despite it being rather trivial to grab any recent android phone and verify that you ca
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by darren_ 10y ago
> Also trivially disabled, again, unlike the location tracking the Register is describing here which cannot be turned off. The tracking absolutely can be turned off. The register's original article is somewhat confused on this. (dis
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by darren_ 10y ago
Nothing was 'taken away' for pre-M users either, at least Maps-wise. This article (as originally written, they've updated it since) was stating that a privacy feature that never existed had been taken away. There never was a
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by darren_ 10y ago
FTA: "The same is true of Google Maps. Although it makes far more sense for Maps to have access to your location, the latest build doesn't give you the option of turning it off. To do that, you have to turn off GPS on your phone a
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by darren_ 10y ago
The sinister reason for this is that Google wants better data about places (so the service is more useful, so more people use it, so more ads are served, and so on).
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by darren_ 10y ago
> as it now forces me to log in before doing anything useful. It's still useful without logging in, searches and directions still work fine, they just have a big ugly prompt telling you to log-in. Just ignore it. The main functiona
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by darren_ 11y ago
It's not dead. It's manager dependent, I guess - It's not carte blanche to do whatever you want (was it ever?), so whatever you're doing needs to have, or potentially have, _some_ value to Google, but the bar for that va
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by darren_ 11y ago
The Uber app for _passengers_ uses google maps. The Uber app for drivers uses Apple's turn-by-turn.
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by darren_ 12y ago
> I'd be very interested in knowing how these stats were calculated Reasonably sure it's based off something similar to this: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/73/slides/v6ops-4.pdf And yes, it is
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by darren_ 12y ago
iOS is a special case for ad-blocking, because until iOS8 Safari could be induced to redirect you to the Appstore app, and (less reputable) ads would frequently take advantage of this. ( http://www.tuaw.com/2014/06/
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by darren_ 12y ago
It's nice to see a thoughtful critique/comparison (dev on iOS gmaps here). Interestingly I don't think anyone who works on iOS maps lives in a citymapper-enabled city. Couple of points that might be helpful if the writer read
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by darren_ 12y ago
really? clicking the map on desktop maps should do the same thing as right-click->whats-here. it does for me anyway.
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by darren_ 13y ago
I can't guarantee it's not for anything else but the innocuous reason I can think of for this is the 'recruit agents' invite system (ingress was initially invite-only). I think it's opened up now, but hopefully they
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by darren_ 13y ago
This feature doesn't reveal your email address unless you reply. And the message goes to the 'social' tab if you're using the tabbed inbox (it'll probably be easy to filter if you're not, but I have no idea) I
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by darren_ 13y ago
The last exploit I found in windows took about 6 months to get patched (this was in 2010, they may have improved). It was a 'ping of death' style instant bluescreen from one packet kind of exploit. 10 days is _nothing_.
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by darren_ 13y ago
> Brief search shows that these dev interfaces would have the ability to access the user's PC outside of the Chrome sandbox. Aren't they just the APIs in https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#c
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by darren_ 13y ago
Just a guess but there's a comment: // Temporarily allow these whitelisted apps and WebUIs to use NaCl. And it's in a function called "IsNaClAllowed"
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by darren_ 13y ago
This is so much fun to look at after you've just gotten back from a trip overseas, thanks for the link.
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by darren_ 13y ago
Over in Japan (only experience I have of contract-cellphone-ownership) it is spelled out very clearly when you start a 2-year cellphone contract with a 0-yen upfront phone that you're actually buying the handset over a period of 24 mon

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