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by taligent 14y ago
If Google+'s long game equates to simply integrating with other Google services then I fail to see how it is brilliant.
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by taligent 14y ago
Volvo are planning to ship their first self driving cars in 2014. http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2012/12/03/volvo-plans-to-...
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by taligent 14y ago
Car companies TODAY have been shipping en masse large number of self-parking and automatic accident avoiding cars and have decades of experience in building and shipping reliable control systems. Google can't even produce bug-free software,
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by taligent 14y ago
Firstly we don't know if they have done something wrong. The target audience for the branding change is going to be the NEXT generation of students not the current or past ones. And definitely not the general public. And I personally can't
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by taligent 14y ago
>if 90% of people don't like it, it is by definition a bad logo. Bzzt. WRONG. If 90% of "prospective 18-20 year olds" don't like it, then and only then is it a bad logo. Everyone else really should probably stay out of it since they are
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by taligent 14y ago
Why on earth would they be consulted ? The design departments aren't involved in the commercial realities of branding/marketing and the students are just that students. People forget that isn't just about the logo it's about the positioning
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by taligent 14y ago
You deserve to be banned for this. You don't attempt to publicly slander a person's reputation (on an influential site like HN no less) based on unsubstantiated heresay.
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by taligent 14y ago
I don't think you've ever actually worked at a large organisation. Engineers don't unilaterally make decisions about what goes into a product or not. That is the purview of the Product Manager and I assure you that senior executives (possib
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by taligent 14y ago
If they adopt the Japanese approach then it works just fine. Basically they aim for equal numbers of guys and girls but the protocol is that you spend equal amounts of time with each opposite. So it doesn't just become an awkward pair off s
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by taligent 14y ago
It means put all of these potential solutions in a folder so that future generations (who may have been technology) can easily find them.
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by taligent 14y ago
Computers aren't some magical machines that instantly understand what we mean. At some point somebody has to write the code to implement those 'rules'. Which then opens up exactly the same problems (if not more) than if you just verified by
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by taligent 14y ago
If the Wikipedia page is correct then British publisher Tony Faber offered $1 million dollars if a proof was submitted before April 2002. And according to this article it was submitted in March 2002. So how come this guy didn't come forward
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by taligent 14y ago
Yeh no. Microsoft extracts patent royalties (e.g. the FAT32) from pretty much everyone and anyone. They haven't targeted Android in any unique way. If anything Google's abuse of FRAND patents against Microsoft over the XBox 360 H.264 codec
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by taligent 14y ago
> Microsoft rather pointedly has avoided supporting the Linux market. Please. Wake up and smell the coffee. EVERY major software company has avoided the Linux market. It's because of the questionable market opportunity that is the reaso
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by taligent 14y ago
So by your warped logic Google users also agree with Google policies like deliberately invading your privacy (ignoring Safari DNT) and acting in a grossly anti-competitive manner by abusing FRAND patents (which they thankfully got told off
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually no. The smart solution is to try and support it perhaps with a degraded experience. Or perhaps Google is planning a future rebranding to Android Maps.
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by taligent 14y ago
So I take it Mobile Firefox and Opera will not be supported either ?
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by taligent 14y ago
Dropbox offers a Send Link feature. Have you seriously never used it before ?
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by taligent 14y ago
DRM will be an issue for any older purchased iTunes Music. But you can pay a little more and Apple will provide non-DRM versions.
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by taligent 14y ago
> Apple is not concerned if software works before they decide to ship it. The VP in charge of iOS Software Engineering was publicly fired over Siri and Maps. Pretty sure they do care.
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by taligent 14y ago
I can email a Dropbox file to someone and search my mail on my iPhone. Or am I missing something ?
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by taligent 14y ago
> Apple's idiotic focus on skeuomorphism I fail to see how it has anything at all to do with skeuomorphism. What object exists in real life that is comparable to a bounce back scrolling list ?
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by taligent 14y ago
Firstly there is nothing trivial about it. The concept never existed before the iPhone and it is absolutely not intuitive that it is how list scrolling is supposed to work. It's unquestionably distinctive to the iPhone. Secondly what a soft
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by taligent 14y ago
I'm confused what part bothers you. That Apple patented it. Or that it is worth a billion dollars. Because if it's the first then it is just a hypocritical position. And if it's the second then maybe you don't understand the math. Size of l
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by taligent 14y ago
> You can get a top-of-the-line smartphone for $300. That's amazing. Not sure why you think this. It is mid range phone by every benchmark (e.g. no LTE, battery life, screen quality) and it gets destroyed by the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S3 i
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by taligent 14y ago
And both of those are quintessentially Android features. I doubt you will ever see them implemented like that on iOS without jailbreaking. I personally don't want anything like that. I would rather Apple just allow widgets in the notificati
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by taligent 14y ago
Upcoming birthdays and other calendar events appear on my iPhone in the lock/notification screen so no different to Android in that respect. And as of iOS6 it automatically syncs birthdays with Facebook.
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by taligent 14y ago
Since when does intelligence = human intelligence ? You would think an intelligent person would know this.
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by taligent 14y ago
AI is just smarter software at the end of the day. The risks are still far greater for a simple control system used in a Boeing 777 or heart pacemaker than for an AI search engine. It's all about Risk Management 101: Risk = Impact x Probabi
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by taligent 14y ago
>Also best and brightest of engineers and AI researchers, shitload of money, culture of ambition and a clear intent to go after AI tech. I haven't heard of any other company like that. IBM ? Who also have been doing it for decades and a

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