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by taligent 14y ago
Sorry but where in Australia are you that Google Maps is showing POIs ? And which POIs are inaccurate exactly ?
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by taligent 14y ago
Did you notice the lack of POIs in Sydney ? Really weird.
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by taligent 14y ago
My findings: For searching. Google Maps has a much better autocomplete all round. Faster, more readable and elegant. Once you have selected an entry then Apple Maps jumps straight there. Google Maps does this pointless move animation making
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by taligent 14y ago
It does take about 30 seconds to go from a normal map view to the 3D view. Hopefully they will enable an in-app mode in the next version.
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by taligent 14y ago
Weird. Google Maps feels about 2x slower to me. Especially when turning the map.
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by taligent 14y ago
Underhanded ? The more likely explanation is that Apple is caching the search index. Which given the traffic volumes, number of apps and the fact they are using Lucene makes sense.
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by taligent 14y ago
The best resources are from Apple's WWDC: https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/
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by taligent 14y ago
Then switch. 5 other English voices available.
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by taligent 14y ago
Which one ? It's different depending on the region.
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by taligent 14y ago
It's not an absolute statement. I said SEEM to be. Because the fact is that the mobile site IS about 80% as good as the native app. Especially given the native app has poor caching and no offline capability.
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by taligent 14y ago
Again. Google Street View cars are NOT going around continuously updating data. It is their existing data providers that are doing this for them. I know this for a fact. And sorry but Google doesn't own any POI data either. They license it
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by taligent 14y ago
Where do you think the data providers get their data from ? They have cars as well. And they've had them for DECADES before Google. And it's not like Google is driving around continuously updating their data. For example Street View in many
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by taligent 14y ago
> Sadly, the result is laughably worse than Google's data, and probably will be comparable to Google's 2011 sometime in 2014. It will improve sooner than that. Apple has been rapidly making deals with data providers in each country. The
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by taligent 14y ago
The only people complaining about Google Maps seem to be non-iOS users. Because the mobile version has been available and was about 80% as good as the app. Which really showed just how lacking the original maps was.
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by taligent 14y ago
http://serverbear.com/benchmarks/ssd-vps
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by taligent 14y ago
Well firstly the OP would be crazy to go with Linode. Secondly there is actually little difference between the amount of time spent managing a VPS versus a dedicated or colo. Hardware failures aren't going to be your biggest concern. It's g
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by taligent 14y ago
I really do not understand why people keep recommending Linode on here. Apart from their woeful and disgraceful security policies some of their data centres e.g. Fremont is very unreliable. I would recommend http://www.webhostingtalk.com
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by taligent 14y ago
Whilst I don't like Linode because of their security issues I definitely wouldn't choose them if I was based in London. Why wouldn't you go with Hetzner and use the massive price saving to move to SSD ?
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by taligent 14y ago
Sure. But something to remember is that a dedicated/colocation server is likely to be at minimum 10x faster than Heroku for the same price (considering AWS is around 5x slower for me). Maybe even approaching 20x.
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by taligent 14y ago
None of what you said is true. Firstly the market share does not automatically translate into more app sales. http://www.androidauthority.com/developer-economics-128916/ Secondly having Samsung in the market means nothing. It's the abilit
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by taligent 14y ago
Weird. Because Evernote showcases premium features.
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by taligent 14y ago
I wish people would stop talking about the UN as though it is some third party government. It is a democratic organisation that is merely a reflection of the agendas of the 193 member countries. So rather than blaming the UN instead blame t
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by taligent 14y ago
I actually briefly saw someone using this when I was in Pyongyang recently. They have mostly older PCs (with CRTs) and the forums are reminiscent of the internet back in the Netscape 4 days. But from what I saw it is very much an intranet
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by taligent 14y ago
According to TechCrunch, Google was hoping to have it submitted by Christmas. There is NO evidence that Apple is blocking it from the store.
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by taligent 14y ago
The small value transaction is called a pre-auth and yes it is designed to test whether the card works. It's not a big deal in most countries since it just disappears automatically. But IIRC in the UK it doesn't. Google probably figures the
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by taligent 14y ago
All servers fail randomly and so do hard drives so not sure why Mac Mini would be any different. Also they rack mount very easily: http://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacmini.html
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by taligent 14y ago
Right. I use more established solutions which only allows for 2 Mac Minis and has roughly same power draw/heat as my previous dedicated. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacmini.html
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by taligent 14y ago
I already mentioned those. They aren't cheaper.
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by taligent 14y ago
Unless I misread something that is a single node. The key point about the Mac Minis is you can have TWO nodes in 1RU. And given that the data centre costs will be more than the hardware it makes the overall proposition very compelling.
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually you can get dual SSDs. But sure. The Mac Mini are not real servers and if you treat them like they are then I am sure you will have problems. But for use cases where you just have dumb nodes they are perfect.

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