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Sphero: from Concept Robot to Polycarbonate II – The Software(gosphero.com)
3 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|0 comments
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Actually pbiggar is correct – the going market rate for employees (or, at least, engineers) in an acquihire is usually around $1-2MM/employee. E.g. a small startup with 4 engineers would be acquihired for $4-8MM. Thus, if this were a full a
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
And that failure comes from incredible mismanagement. Blowing tens of millions on office space, parties, and trips to Vegas and NYC, all while building a talented engineering and design team that was then given no focused direction and subs
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Given the revenue mentioned in the article, it's obvious that many were willing to justify paying $1.99 for Hipstamatic, and then more for additional filters. Frankly, it's rather nice to see a company better value their work and become a s
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
And, as I said, Firefox no longer breaks plugins. Yes, they did. Yes, that was bad. They claimed, and I believe, that was necessary, but today their plugin interfaces are stable and have been stable for quite some time. Also, believe me, Ch
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
If Firefox hadn't gone on a version roller coasters ride I'd still be using it. At least they pull versions that need more attention. But, FF 16!?!?! 16!!!? Huh? . . . you do know Chrome's at version 22 and version 24 is in dev release, r
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Sphero: from Concept Robot to Polycarbonate(gosphero.com)
6 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|0 comments
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Digging Out from Years of Homogeneous Computing(prog21.dadgum.com)
9 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|0 comments
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IOS 6 Shakes Up The Ranks But No Significant Changes In The Ranking Algorithm(distimo.com)
6 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|0 comments
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A new lifeline in Japan(blog.twitter.com)
5 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|0 comments
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
What, exactly, is Apple to test? They're not shipping updates to 10.5, and Chrome is Google's product to test.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Out of curiosity, what OS did you switch to that doesn't require regular, and often large, updates? I can't think of an OS I've ever used – various Linux distros, Windows, OS X, various BSDs, Solaris, and a smattering of random other unix v
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Please, quit "pulling out the dead guy card". Ask why iOS 6 Maps shipped, but quit saying SJ wouldn't have allowed it to ship. I doubt you knew Jobs and, even if you did, I doubt you have any clue what he would have done in this situation.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
MobileMe was – and is, as iCloud! – a major corporate initiative. It touched almost every product Apple was working on at the time, affecting iOS, OS X and iTunes. It required significant capital investment in back-end infrastructure, and w
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
I know many people who were and are on that team, and am well familiar with the described meeting. That meeting doesn't change the fact that Apple shipped MobileMe while SJ was CEO. It was a bad product that had a horrendous launch; SJ coul
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
If you're accusing Apple of copying iOS 5's Maps app for iOS 6's Maps app, you're accusing Apple of copying itself. Google provided the backend data and map tiles for Maps prior to iOS 6, but Apple wrote the app itself.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
So… you two both personally knew SJ? And SJ, while he was leading Apple, was always without fault? If that's the case, how do you explain Ping? MobileMe? The G4 Cube?
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
If you want to get worked up over that, sure. I won't question that assertion. I'll just point out that other platforms had "app stores" before even the iOS jailbreakers.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Making money's far different from taking credit. They'd be taking credit if they claimed responsibility for the jailbreak ecosystem; as it stands, they're simply gaining some very marginal benefit and, at the same time, actively trying to c
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
I never said you should limit your expectations. I was simply laying out facts. You can like them or hate them, that's entirely up to you; I personally don't care either way. I'm glad you've found a more usable replacement for iOS 6's Maps.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Apple needs to stop taking credit How are they taking credit for the jailbroken ecosystem? I've never heard Apple once mention jailbreaking in any marketing context. (Really, in any official context at all.)
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you didn't personally know SJ. If that's correct, then you can't say anything about what he would or wouldn't have done. Apple made mistakes and missteps with SJ at the helm; they'll make mistakes an
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Apple has purchased mapping companies. According to Wikipedia[1], they've purchased Placebase, Poly9, and C3 Technologies – all companies associated with mapping. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
put in a new maps app and refine it over time alright, but let us keep the Google maps app alongside. Is that too much to ask? If Google had a maps app, it wouldn't be too much to ask. Google doesn't have a maps app; iOS has a maps app, w
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
But what about millions of other who are happier with bigger screen? What about the possibly larger return on convenience and usability who genuinely prefer larger screen? None is spoken of. A less negative way to parse what he wrote is:
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
What's new? Well, the - processor - baseband - antennas - camera - display - case - OS - and, yes, the Lightning adaptor which you baselessly claim Apple instituted just to milk money from people A great deal of iPhone 5 is entirely new. Ye
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
This is one of the reasons that Apple is dragging its feet on making HTML5 web apps work on par with native apps, despite Jobs' anti-Flash memo two and a half years ago. Is it? I instead suspect it's because making HTML 5 web apps work o
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Or they have other tools that they feel are as good or better. e.g. Instruments, clang, dtrace. Valgrind is powerful, and it would be nice if it was perfectly supported on OS X, but it's not the end-all-be-all of runtime analysis and profil
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
I'd love to see citations on clang bugs that persist without good reason (e.g. clang's adhering more closely to a standard, or refuses to implement a rarely used gcc extension).
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
The notice is about IPv4 allocation, not about IPv6 market penetration. RIPE NCC has just begun allocating IPv4 addresses from the last available /8 block.

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