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by taligent 14y ago
>take pictures of your friends, post them publicly, identify them by name in a worldwide, searchable database Facebook's data is only public if you want it to be.
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by taligent 14y ago
And how is this ANY different from Google which knows far more about you then Facebook ? Oh that's right. It isn't. Which makes this idea that Facebook is going to die as realistic as Google is going to die.
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Before you do this. Make sure to install XCode from the App Store and then goto XCode->Preferences->Downloads and install the "Command Line Tools".
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by taligent 14y ago
I highly recommend iStat Menus / MenuMeters for monitoring. Also if you run "sudo fs_usage" in the Terminal you can see what is accessing the disk. This can easily show what new app you've installed is causing problems. Likewise learn about
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by taligent 14y ago
Remind me again why anybody is still using Linode ? Poor uptime and a disgraceful attitude towards security. ANY service provider that hides the facts behind major security incidents from their customers should never be used. I guess their
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Yes because finding ways to not insert a new row for each tweet is a classic sign of someone not thinking. From the UI Twitter only shows tweets to the minute so you could imagine that there is an optimisation there for merging retweets wit
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by taligent 14y ago
Have you EVER actually worked on a reasonably sized system ? Because there are a lot more contributors to request/response performance than just database indexes. Especially when you are at the scale of Paypal.
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Reasonably certain based on what evidence ? Because its API is slow ?
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Remember that's 10K requests for $5 NOW. We could see it jump back to its original price at any time of Google's choosing which would have been $40. But the 10K requests bit is arbitrary. My point is that it is not mostly free. It's not rea
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I think you misread what I said. It was that IF I was going to spend money on a mapping API I would rather use it to improve an open platform. Especially for something as key as mapping.
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And if you are building a startup that wants to compete in these markets ? The definition of enterprise is pretty arbitrary these days.
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> Any American jury is going to be biased against a foreign company when it comes to charges like this. Complete load of unsubstantiated, borderline xenophobic nonsense.
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Google didn't invent nor has a monopoly on autonomous driving cars. They are one of MANY players. So pretty sure everyone else will be able to change every market out there as well.
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It's 50c per 1000 requests. So if you were building a semi-popular website or iPhone app with 10K requests/day it would be $150 a month. In what bizarro world is that mostly free ?
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Definitely more than a map. Google's latest revenue source. So unfortunately as a developer I would rather spend my efforts helping to improve OpenStreetMap.
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by taligent 14y ago
I use MongoDB because for my specific use case (one user object with lots of related data) it is significantly faster, easier to manage, easier to scale, easier to debug and most importantly easier to develop. It doesn't mean that it is app
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by taligent 14y ago
Your definition of thuggish seems a bit off. Thug = a common criminal, who treats others violently and roughly. It's akin to calling someone 'white trash'.
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I'm just a bit bothered by this phenomena of discovering features on Android that were present on Palm phones for ages and then attributing them to Android: voice input, voice actions, the ability to answer phone calls with canned texts, an
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by taligent 14y ago
Calm down. Everyone is just calling it Google Maps out of simplicity. And yes it is vector on Android which was rumored to be one of the reasons Apple even started on this whole maps adventure. Because Google wasn't willing to license the v
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by taligent 14y ago
>Also don't forget Apple's Maps retrieve a lot less data than Google Maps, since they don't actually have that data. Google Maps offers a lot more information. Well this is just stupidity at its finest. A few extra POIs/streets would pa
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by taligent 14y ago
The thing is that nobody cares about where Google is now (including Apple). Getting to where Google was a couple of years ago is the goal. Things like street view, going underwater, interior building plans etc are icing on the cake. But all
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Not to draw attention away from their servers which are damn nice. This is what I call server porn: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/01/oracle_exadata_x3_sy... 40TB of data in RAM, 220TB on Flash. 1.5 million IOPS.
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Why ? The device still works on iOS5 and will still run 99% of the apps available today and over the next few years. Most developers are still going to be targeting iOS4+ for a while to come.
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by taligent 14y ago
I really don't know where to start with this ridiculous diatribe. Firstly as for your MacBook Air. OSX runs fine with 2GB and shouldn't be swapping constantly for browsing. And not sure why you are complaining that you got 200 euros for a 4
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by taligent 14y ago
>Unfortunately for Apple, Steve Jobs is dead and the magic is gone. Steve Jobs was alive when the iPhone 5 was conceptualised and designed. Also nobody cares about your anecdotes. I hate to be rude but seriously they are meaningless.
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iPad 1 (April 2010) ---- Nexus 7 (September 2012) So that's nearly two and a half years. You would hope the Nexus could do everything the iPad could at a substantially cheaper price.
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>I'm sure with a bit of engineering effort, the memory footprint of iOS could be drastically reduced. Drastically ? The core of iOS is fundamentally the same as OSX and there are shared components. If Apple could figure out how to drama
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by taligent 14y ago
Google Maps != Google Now. So your use case is cool and may well be the future but that isn't what we are talking about here. My point is that street/POI data does not have a high turnover so the gap between Apple and Google will get closer
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Apple relies a lot on Yelp for POI data which obviously isn't in NZ right now. But I believe they will be there soon as they just launched in Australia and bought the NZ domain name. Yelp's strategy has been to partner with the local Yellow
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Google is good when it comes to managing the map data but it is hardly unique. Many data providers have been doing exactly what Google has for far longer. And I don't see there being an increasing gap going forward. There simply isn't an un

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