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by taligent 14y ago
>NIH wins every time at Apple, it seems. No not really. All of the ports on a Mac are standard.
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by taligent 14y ago
Apple isn't stupid. They always include the adapter and charger with every iPhone sold. Not just to comply with regulations but because the iPhone is designed to be usable without a computer.
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by taligent 14y ago
Yes. The current Apple Power->USB charger works just fine at charging Nokia devices. And no reason why it would be any different now.
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by taligent 14y ago
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD823ZM/A/lightning-to-30-... Why wouldn't this one allow the iPhone 5 to work with existing docks/devices ? So long as the device is sturdy enough (which I can imagine it would be) then there should be n
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by taligent 14y ago
None of the above. They want work. And this is work that is much better than flipping burgers at McDonalds. Remember that some of these people might end up designing and producing the products of the future as well. I know if I was 18 I wou
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by taligent 14y ago
That's a 'trivial machine' that you have to design, implement, test and most importantly maintain. Humans don't have those sort of problems.
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by taligent 14y ago
Of course there is debate. The reason is that automated tests costs 2-3x as much time upfront. The assumption is then you will recoup that investment in the future. The problem is that automated testing doesn't cover everything so you have
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by taligent 14y ago
Established its roots ? It is just a standalone app and would be trivial to rewrite or split into its separate parts. The hard bit is in the overall experience. Splitting one app into 5 or 6 was manageable on iOS but could be unwieldy on OS
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by taligent 14y ago
Just a couple of points. 1) .DS_Store is necessary for compatibility with UNIX/Windows who do not support the HFS+ resource fork/Finder metadata. There is no way around it and they are optional. Perhaps just add it to your .gitignore like e
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by taligent 14y ago
Easily being the appropriate word here. In that article you wrote they had to manually setup sharding. With something like CouchDB I can press a button to add a new node in the cluster. Again. Easily is what I am talking about. And again V8
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by taligent 14y ago
You're kidding right ? PostreSQL can't horizontally scale easily or properly handle JSON right now compared to MongoDB. It also has a fixed schema which makes database migrations a necessary evil again. Sorry but the idea that PostgreSQL is
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by taligent 14y ago
Did you try Percona or Twitter/Facebook's version of MySQL ?
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by taligent 14y ago
That comment is kind of pointless. Millions and millions of passengers are screened every year and so of course there are going to be lots of stories about airport security making mistakes. What you need to show is actual statistical eviden
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by taligent 14y ago
You seem to be missing the key point here: risk management. Nobody has said that phones are a major risk compared to all of the other risks a plane has to deal with e.g. weather, maintenance, pilot experience. Only that they do represent a
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by taligent 14y ago
Your suggestion is illogical and unworkable. Because the time take to search the plane for transmitting phones would be anywhere from 0 to say 30 mins for a phone left on at the bottom of a suitcase. How on earth would you then schedule fli
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by taligent 14y ago
I found this study and at the end is an interesting summary from the RTCA: "Those findings indicated that the probability of interference to installed aircraft systems from PED, singly or in multiples, is extremely slight. However, the slig
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by taligent 14y ago
I always find this anti-TSA rhetoric hilarious. You do realise that EVERY country has a TSA equivalent with almost exactly the same policies and procedures. And yes some of it is security theatre but most of it isn't.
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by taligent 14y ago
It is the role of the lawyers to explain their position in layman's terms. Having programming experience is absolutely not a requirement for understanding the technicalities of what software does. If it was we would see Testers, Producers,
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by taligent 14y ago
PJ's bias is getting ridiculous now. When you read this line that the foreman "used knowledge from that experience to convince the other jurors that Samsung's prior art was not valid" you are led to believe coercion occurred. When in fact t
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually this wouldn't surprise me for some searches. When searching for say "new york hotels" I often find Google's attempts at "trying to help" to be annoying. I don't want to see the main search results dedicated to showing an arbitrary
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by taligent 14y ago
Well this is just yet another dumb comparison that exploits the drop off in sales before a key Apple event. It's well know that the iPad Mini and a possible iPad update is scheduled either next week or sometime shortly after. The only sales
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by taligent 14y ago
Get rid of the text as much as you seem to love it. The screenshot already explains everything. All you need is one screenshot. One download button. One donate button. One mention that it's free.
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually we do. Apple supports 26 cities. Google supports 13.
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually Google should be the same as local street directories since that is where they get there data from. I live in Australia (hi, neighbour) and it is Sensis (Yellow/White Pages) who supply data to Google. As for quality of maps it is a
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by taligent 14y ago
Yep. You don't like my opinion so clearly I must be working for Apple or own stock. In fact it is neither. And at no point did I say that OSM wasn't responsible for the map data. Only that Apple added other pieces from other companies.
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by taligent 14y ago
Not false. Skype added sharding support themselves. And it requires you to use stored procedures instead of SQL making it unusable for most users. And I am talking about native JSON support as a first class citizen. Nobody is going to lock
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by taligent 14y ago
> No app of significant size will actually allow this. Never heard of ORM ? In the Java world it is very, very common to have database independence. And most enterprise deployments (i.e. significant size) are Java.
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by taligent 14y ago
>You need to have quite a large database to not physically fit on a single node. If you are hosting in the cloud then pricing favours lots of smaller instances rather than single bigger ones. And many startups with limited budgets (e.g.
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by taligent 14y ago
> slow and steady development trajectory Slow being the operative word. Sharding and JSON support should have been added as basic features years ago. Now if you need either (very common) PostgreSQL is a non-starter.
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by taligent 14y ago
The JSON data type is nothing more than a self validating varchar field i.e. fairly pointless. Better off just validating the JSON yourself in the application layer and maintaining cross database compatibility. To be honest it is rare that

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