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by taligent 14y ago
With databases like Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra, Riak, MySQL Cluster issues like sharding and horizontal scaling have largely been solved for you. Meaning it's neither tough nor expensive. And some of us run startups that have to deal wit
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by taligent 14y ago
Well they had to write their own sharding implementation which is something that 99% of startups wouldn't want to be doing. Combine that with a pretty terrible list of replication options and PostgreSQL is far from being ideal when it comes
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by taligent 14y ago
Larry needs to focus more on Google and less on what others are doing. Firstly their self driving car project seems to be pointless. Almost every car manufacturer e.g. Ford, GM, Hyundai, Toyota, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Volvo has had their own
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by taligent 14y ago
And their abuse of the Safari Do Not Track setting.
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by taligent 14y ago
We have all seen these browser sandboxes before. And guess what: Java and Flash are two of the most widely compromised pieces of software in history.
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by taligent 14y ago
Do you really think open source and security audits actually means much ? You only to have to look at Java and Windows to know that security exploits can exist for years sometimes decades without anyone noticing them.
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by taligent 14y ago
Online banking isn't security critical. The banks operate on the assumption that their user's machines will be compromised and have undertaken plenty of steps to manage their risk e.g. two factor auth, transfer limits etc.
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by taligent 14y ago
> wouldn't we have seen a spike in archery attacks last year? But there has been an increase in people taking up archery. You seem to be missing the point though. People who commit mass killings are trying to kill as many people as poss
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by taligent 14y ago
I personally don't think so. But it could just mean adjusting ratings and making sure that proof of age is required when purchasing classified content. I think everyone would agree that certain types of content should not be available until
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by taligent 14y ago
Video games are interactive. TVs are not. Now I am not a behavioural psychologist so I don't know to what extent interactivity affects changes in behaviour. I doubt you do either. That is why studies are important.
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by taligent 14y ago
But iOS users could be using the web version as well ? So it really doesn't seem that you're in a position to be questioning someone else's logic.
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by taligent 14y ago
> Essentially anything that mentions fragmentation is about spreading FUD. I am going to assume by this statement that you've never worked on an Android project before. I work for an enterprise company with lots of Android apps and frag
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by taligent 14y ago
Right now the primary use case of the Google Glasses is as an always-on video camera. Now most people (including myself) don't appreciate being filmed without permission and there are plenty of situations where people could be filmed commit
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by taligent 14y ago
Am I missing something or is everything you are saying wrong ? Apple hasn't removed the New Release section, it was two taps for me to find the Top Free/Paid apps in each category and the process for registration for single developers hasn'
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by taligent 14y ago
> We will use commercially reasonable efforts. That sounds pretty damn ominous to me.
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>Then again, that could just increase the amount of noise on Facebook and drive people away even faster. How is this any different to just creating an event normally ?
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>I definitely like the idea of it and the execution is close. This is the best way to describe it. They DO have something here and they are close but the vision just needs a bit more clarity.
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by taligent 14y ago
I had no idea either. And then I clicked on "What do you like about Reddit?" and it said it ended in August 2012 which had me even more confused. But after clicking around I worked it out. It was an elitist (and far less useful) version of
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by taligent 14y ago
It is somewhat common everywhere to see people buying a Mac and installing Windows. Not because they don't like OSX but because they need certain Windows only apps. Unlike of course you have some evidence of China being an outlier. Which of
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by taligent 14y ago
I think it was one of the All Things Digital talks with Bill Gates / Steve Jobs were they thought that much of the new innovation would come from startups. It could well be that the future of the industry revolves around acqui-hires.
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by taligent 14y ago
Their product side is definitely a follower. But Microsoft Research is a whole different story: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx
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by taligent 14y ago
Volvo has plans to sell autonomous cars in 2014. And this idea that Google has invented something that the car companies haven't is just ridiculous. Car companies have been selling millions of self-parking and auto avoidance cars for the la
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by taligent 14y ago
This article is a little fanboyish. Google hasn't actually invented anything either. Google Now, Glasses, self driving cars, Google+ have all been done before many years ago. What Google is doing is simply executing them in a far more polis
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by taligent 14y ago
The interesting thing is how much the retail strategy has played into it. If you walk down the high street in Ginza, Tokyo you see the Apple Store (which is always packed to capacity) just down from Chanel and Cartier. Which with its strong
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by taligent 14y ago
For those that want to see how China is changing: Don't visit China. Visit Hong Kong. No other place exemplifies the rise of the Chinese middle/upper class like it does. The size and popularity of the high end boutique labels e.g. LV, Herme
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by taligent 14y ago
>Basically, if the bank plays fast and loose with customers' money the customers shoulder the risks whilst the bank owners get the rewards - and there's no way customers can tell whether this is happening Tip: This is happening. This is
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by taligent 14y ago
I really miss the old Google. The purity of their vision and the frequent, crazy projects that came out of Google Labs. At one point it seemed like every good idea was coming from Google. Ever since Larry Page's chat with Steve they really
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually open source has been a huge part of Apple ever since they acquired NeXT (or was it the other way around). The majority of OSX/iOS is open source and they have contributed in big ways to a number of projects e.g. LLVM, OpenCL, GCD,
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by taligent 14y ago
Yeh no. 48fps is the new 3D. Some people will like it even love it. The majority of people won't and its use will be restricted to 'blockbuster' movies only.
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by taligent 14y ago
+1 from me. And the quality of the work was pretty good.

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