taligent

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   by taligent 14y ago

   No I suspect you are the minority. Streetview is nice but hardly critical. And transit integration is important ONLY for those in the US but poorly implemented/not existent in the rest of the world. Most public transport providers I've seen
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   by taligent 14y ago

   I don't understand this as mapping is an endlessly moving target. There is never going to be a perfect time to release it. The best Apple can do is make sure it is okay and then update it as frequently as possible. That's exactly what Googl
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   by taligent 14y ago

   Google Maps ALWAYS send me to other countries so I am used to it. And in the two main Australian cities is not far off Google Maps. Definitely not bad or unusable in any way.
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   by taligent 14y ago

   I never meant to imply that inexperienced users were definitely moving to NoSQL. I would imagine that orders of magnitude more of them are still using MySQL due to its pervasiveness. Only that if they were the current complexity of RDBMS wo
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   by taligent 14y ago

   Sure. But if a person or a photo data object goes missing ? Facebook has different data stores for each of their features so I imagine the loss of a person would be pretty nasty as would a photo data object that multiple people have tagged
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   by taligent 14y ago

   I completely agree. This whole NoSQL/RDBMS situation is programming language debate being played out over again. And just like not every programming language works for every situation. Neither does every database.
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   by taligent 14y ago

   The plural of anecdote is not data. You know that right ? In my case every NoSQL developer I've met had a lot of experience in SQL as well. But do you have ask why so called inexperienced users are choosing NoSQL in the first place ? Hint:
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   by taligent 14y ago

   Those were only a few examples. I can keep listing companies that use sharding. The idea that it is some 1980's approach to scaling databases is laughable.
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   by taligent 14y ago

   I guess so will the likes of Facebook, Google, Twitter, eBay etc. Must be amazing to know more about databases than all of the world's biggest companies put together.
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    by taligent 14y ago

    This is complete and utter nonsense. Facebook and Instagram itself I imagine would care VERY much if data went missing as it would mean not just (a) user data going missing but (b) potentially huge inconsistencies in the social graph. Unles
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    by taligent 14y ago

    It's not naive. It's a well understood and communicated design choice. Remember that completely in memory databases are going to be how we all store our data in the decades to come and are already the standard for those who care about speed
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    by taligent 14y ago

    > I haven't used them except to play around with tutorials. And yet you feel the need to lecture others on their choices ? Wow you are something.
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    by taligent 14y ago

    You deploy a database without doing a spike or clearly without reading the documentation. Because it is well known that MongoDB by design is ill-suited for doing lots of join between tables. It is much better thought of as a document store.
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    by taligent 14y ago

    This kind of rubbish really needs to stop. Just because you don't agree with or understand their choices does not mean that the majority of "NoSQL guys" are ignorant or uneducated. Some of the biggest companies e.g. Twitter, Foursquare, Goo
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    by taligent 14y ago

    > Being engineers, we must understand the implementation and be full aware of its limitations, instead of believing their marketing materials. And as engineers we must understand that most other engineers do take their role seriously an
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    by taligent 14y ago

    You know it's funny but what you wrote sounds exactly like what Google did with Java.
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    by taligent 14y ago

    This is just nonsense. I work in enterprise and support/training is vital for maintaining 24/7 support coverage and ensuring that developers have the best knowledge from the vendor.
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    by taligent 14y ago

    Sure anyone can program. But that doesn't make them a programmer. Just like me slicing you with a knife doesn't make me a doctor.
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    by taligent 14y ago

    Samsung have made it very clear that there is a 'firewall' between the component and product sides of the business. One side does not affect the other.
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    by taligent 14y ago

    If you are going to fake comment on your own submission then maybe you should remove the website from your profile first. Just a thought.
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    by taligent 14y ago

    This is the performance difference. And Core i7 makes negligible difference over the i5. http://www.barefeats.com/mba12a.html But I have both a 13inch MBA and 17inch MBP and the Air is unusable for any serious development work. Screen is
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    by taligent 14y ago

    If you want to donate here is the link: https://www-er.ucsd.edu/givetoucsd/secure/paymenttran/online...
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    by taligent 14y ago

    OSX has nothing to do with ID3 tags. And there have been 400m+ iPods sold with no major ID3 issue. Just saying that just because it affects you personally does not make it a widespread issue.
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    by taligent 14y ago

    Sure. I thoroughly look forward to you trying out Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 8 and seeing how they compare. I think you will find that both are orders of magnitude worse than OSX. Why ? Because from a UI perspective both are complete rewrites
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    by taligent 14y ago

    I have 120,000 messages in Mail with 5 accounts going back about 6 years and about 20+ smart mailboxes. Mail was one part of OSX I never actually had any problems with.
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    by taligent 14y ago

    > with the OS exposing a limited API. Can you be more specific ? OSX's problem for me is that it exposes too many APIs (FS/BSD/Carbon/Cocoa) which can overlap in odd scenarios e.g. accessing the AddressBook.
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    by taligent 14y ago

    Sorry but what does OSX have to do with your iPod not playing MP3s ? And I don't really understand why you think your anecdote is relevant considering you switched 3 years ago to Windows Vista. Which lets be honest was universally recognise
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    by taligent 14y ago

    And I can sure you that many people will be there ready to insist (either legally or physically) that you refrain from recording them, their friends and their family without express permission. It is a legal requirement after all. Will be i
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    by taligent 14y ago

    Thunderbolt cables have very expensive, somewhat fragile controllers at each end of the cable. The Lightening cables are designed to be cheap, simple and sturdy.
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    by taligent 14y ago

    That was my point. I suspect the adapter IS strong enough to support the iPhone. My prediction: the internal of the adapter is made of LiquidMetal.