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811.
by taligent 14y ago
Well mentioned. Nokia has been far ahead of the curve for turn by turn navigation and Bing's aerial view has almost always surpassed Google. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft's amazing augmented reality research will end up in a ma
812.
by taligent 14y ago
Actually Apple does have a big part in it. They bring together all the data from Tom Tom, Waze, OSM etc as well as the two teams they purchased: C3 and Placebase into one coherent product. It's amazing that Apple has nearly matched Google i
813.
by taligent 14y ago
Your argument is simply not true. iOS users regularly update as we've seen time and time again. Windows users regularly update. OSX users regularly update. What makes Android users so different ?
814.
by taligent 14y ago
Simple. Look at Linux. Look at Windows. You centralize updates of the core OS and build ABIs/APIs for all of the parts of the system that are needed to be extensible e.g. drivers, libraries, shells etc. This model is proven to work and work
815.
by taligent 14y ago
Why ? Because most Android users don't like the fact that their devices are basically abandoned the minute they are purchased. It is by far the number one problem with the platform at the moment. And frankly the idea that Google should do n
816.
by taligent 14y ago
Of course this is Google's fault. Do you really think they are the first company who has had to deal with building a core platform that third parties can add on top of (carriers, OEMs) ? This isn't a complex problem to solve.
817.
by taligent 14y ago
Obama released his long form birth certificate and the Hawaii Department of Health certified it. What more could he possibly do ?
818.
by taligent 14y ago
1. These would be historical documents (i.e not refiled this year) which could be treated differently to 'working copies'. 2. These files would likely be distributed at some point. So it's not unreasonable that they would use one solution f
819.
by taligent 14y ago
At companies 99% of the time it is former or current coders who hire other coders. And coders don't care about how old you are. It is all about what you have done and what you can do. So the best thing you can do to get yourself noticed is
820.
by taligent 14y ago
I think he misses the point here that 'people like to have fun'. We know that skeumorphic designs aren't the most efficient and in some cases may confuse the user. But these apps aren't being used to control a spaceship. They are often used
821.
by taligent 14y ago
I've heard Foursquare having a lot of problems with the terrible behaviour of MongoDB once your indexes go above 95% of the machine's memory. Never with the sharding part though.
822.
by taligent 14y ago
Only tested with CentOS 5.4 and is at version 1.0 ? Seems odd for PostgreSQL not to have made cluster features more of a priority given the more towards cloud based deployments.
823.
by taligent 14y ago
I suppose you would have an issue with MongoDB specifically if you were trying to rebalance from day one. But generally you wouldn't. I know Foursquare is using MongoDB's Auto Sharding in production and they would definitely have a lot of w
824.
by taligent 14y ago
Sure. But let's be realistic here the amount of data you would be dealing with is pretty insignificant compared to the bigger users of Cassandra and HBase or even MongoDB. But hey if you wanted to be explicit about consistency then I am sur
825.
by taligent 14y ago
Having to implement your own sharding in your application layer for a database with 3 tables is ridiculous. No wonder people are moving to products like Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, CouchDB etc which automatically and transparently shard acro
826.
by taligent 14y ago
I have never understand why the L/R marking have persisted. Why not just have one braille dot for left, two for right ?
827.
by taligent 14y ago
Ignore mariuz. He is a developer for some Firebird (another open source DB) add-on. So he is just spreading FUD in order to get people to care about a database that frankly nobody does care about. The fact is that this article is nearly a y
828.
by taligent 14y ago
I'm going to take a guess that you don't know many non-IT people. Because the majority of the general public care about how how something looks and works. Whether it's the car the drive, the clothes they wear, how their house looks etc. Mos
829.
by taligent 14y ago
And also importantly for most Apple users something that fits in with the design.
830.
by taligent 14y ago
Well some are better than others right. Riak/CouchDB are great when it comes to clustering/sharding. MongoDB has the best JSON support and is very friendly for developers. MySQL is proven, has the best tool support and most widely supported
831.
by taligent 14y ago
Sorry but PostgreSQL's JSON support is a joke. It is nothing more than a VARCHAR that validates. You can't search or index across fields and the way you actually query the JSON is cumbersome at best. Also all of your arguments are "push to
832.
by taligent 14y ago
I see you've never worked with GOOD offshore development.
833.
by taligent 14y ago
What's happening to Solaris ? It is still open and available for download at http://opensolaris.org . It just isn't being supported by Oracle anymore since they are focused on Oracle Linux.
834.
by taligent 14y ago
>Now I don't know why anyone would not choose PostgreSQL for almost any project. No offense but people who make statements like this clearly don't know much about the current state of databases. PostgreSQL is pretty bad in many areas co
835.
by taligent 14y ago
Emphasis on: "When I SAW this, it instantly killed any craving I had had for Apple's MacBook Pro Retina." We've seen a lot of devices that look good but then end up poorly implemented.
836.
by taligent 14y ago
You know Google isn't the first search engine, right ?
837.
by taligent 14y ago
Legal loophole ? Since when is the concept of trade dress and patent infringement which has been used by countless companies over the years a legal loophole.
838.
by taligent 14y ago
So obviously that list will include Google right ? Because Google/Motorola was refusing to license at reasonable cost H.264 patents to Microsoft despite them being required under FRAND obligations to do so.
839.
by taligent 14y ago
I also love how "people" talk about Palm phones even though they've clearly never actually used or seen one. Because if you there is no way you would make a comparison between them and the iPhone. They are world's apart. Also no offense but
840.
by taligent 14y ago
It is non-blocking and executed within Nginx itself so it is supposed to be very fast. The Lua work has been done by Chinese engineers from Taobao and Weibo which obviously get a huge amount of traffic.

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