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by vvhn 14y ago
I'm absolutely certain it will be pretty nifty. However, once i have willingly decided not to do a login ( i don't use gmail or Chrome ) it should just not feel the need to shove that to my face everytime. A first time setup prompt is all t
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by vvhn 14y ago
funnily enough when typed pier 39, the first auto suggestion was "pier 39" ( the right one) - the second one was "pier 39 san francisco" which i what i thought was the correct one and tapped on , but turned out to a restaurant named 39 pier
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by vvhn 14y ago
i don't want to log in to an account. Everytime i tap search, three fourths of the screen is filled with how my life would better if logged in to my account. It's a big nag screen.
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by vvhn 14y ago
boston logan airport was the second suggestion when finished typing boston logan. logan boston also gave an instant result although i suspect it the earlier search contributed to it.
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by vvhn 14y ago
>Isn't the purpose of maps to find your destination? True. Google has everyone beat in finding things. These advantages are apparent in the Google maps website itself. Once found though Apple Maps is smoother, more responsive and, in ge
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by vvhn 14y ago
>Wow. New GMaps totally annihilates Apple Maps in every which way Once you get past the onerous task of searching for your destination, i found Apple Maps to be much better When it's not shoving down a Google account login down your th
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by vvhn 14y ago
that's exactly how i use an recommend to anyone - one appleid for things which need purchasing and are shareable across a family ( basically iTunes and the Mac App Store) and one for individual services such as iCloud, facetime and iMessage
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by vvhn 14y ago
>My impression is that NeXT for a long time used the same "non-server" version of Mach that was generally used at CMU at the time (BSD code originally derived from 4.3BSD still in the actual kernel, not as a separate subsystem). Right,
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by vvhn 14y ago
In India at least, Apple/iOS never had anything resembling meaningful marketshare. Android has replaced Symbian and whatever's left of blackberry as the ubiquitous platform powering phones from INR 5000 ($95 ) to INR 35000 ($625) not "taken
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by vvhn 14y ago
mail.app on OS X also does this ( can be turned off i think ) and its always a similar annoyance to me ( select something to copy paste and the reply only has that)
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by vvhn 14y ago
Funnily, the linked article in the rantlog about MobileMe also says there were enough warning and reminders ( for a year ). iCloud was announced by Apple as MobileMe's free replacement ( for atleast 90% of services ) in July 2011. It was co
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by vvhn 14y ago
you do know that it was settled between Apple and SBB ( which probably included the paying of this money ) and no "ordering" was done by anyone anywhere ?
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by vvhn 14y ago
Taxes and It is also a hedge against rupee devaluation ( which it tends to do in bursts ). Companies don't want to get caught up at wrong end of the Rupee sliding further.
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by vvhn 14y ago
i'm guessing preorders count towards the "first day" of sale. However, this is no differrent than every other "Apple sells X of Y on launch weekend" - all of them have had a similar "preorder time". That being said, the numbers seemingly d
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by vvhn 14y ago
there's some speculation that LG is insependently planning to sell for much higher http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/11/03/spanish-phone-retail... That sounds like Google is not just selling it at cost but subsidizing it as well.
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by vvhn 14y ago
It is going to be on Hackernews, Reddit etc. anyway unless the notice is the only thing on web page and reads - "we are evil and we beg the forgiveness of Samsung and anybody who comments on any web forum" :-)
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by vvhn 14y ago
i'm not arguing for or against patents on software, mathematics or otherwise. I'm just saying that answering an interview question about how a particular thing might be done is not in violation of any patent laws. Replace "method for trave
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by vvhn 14y ago
How does answering an interview question violate/infringe any patent (valid or invalid). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement states " The definition of patent infringement may vary by jurisdiction, but it typically includes
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by vvhn 14y ago
That seems to be specific way of traversing Linked Lists (which ostensibly is different than all the other ways it has been done in textbooks, published code etc.) , not Linked Lists themselves. If you find a way of traversing a list in a w
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by vvhn 14y ago
I agree. Most people's first Apple device these days is an iDevice and if they go on to get a Mac as well, they get greeted by familiar things like launchpad, scrolling etc. .
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by vvhn 14y ago
>Ideally everything should remain the same size no matter what the resolution, and the DPI should just grow upwards. This is how it works on platforms like the iPad. And on the "Retina" Macbook Pros - i'm not sure why Linus goes batshit
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by vvhn 14y ago
also the HP/Palm Pre3. Neither Nokia or Google/LG are first with inductive charging.
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by vvhn 14y ago
From it's coverage, it seems that Groklaw and not Samsung has actually lost the case and every one of its articles on this case has set out to right that "wrong". So now, unless the document specifically directs using the exact words "Copy
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by vvhn 14y ago
Looking at Groklaw's overall coverage of this, you have to wonder if she and not Quinn Emanuel are Samsung's legal team :-)
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by vvhn 14y ago
so everybody now knows exactly what Steve Jobs would or would not have done ( i.e. whatever you don't agree with ) ?
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by vvhn 14y ago
From the article "Common to both MHL and MyDP is the need for an additional transmitter (driver) chip as well as a switcher chip that goes back and forth between that and the USB transceivers. This, of course, implies additional space on th
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by vvhn 14y ago
Also, Lion did actually come on an installable USB drive (which is more expensive than the App store Installer app). Not Mountain Lion though. Creating bootable disks (USB or DVD) from the installer app is trivial. Also his other point abou
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by vvhn 14y ago
ok then -MobileMe and that was a paid service. The only person who knows what Steve Jobs would or would not have done was Steve Jobs. Stop pretending like you (or anyone else) does.
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by vvhn 14y ago
I'm not sure how it is done but the app AroundMe has, since 2009, shown me the location on the maps app but has also always given a "Route Using" option which has all the GPS apps on my phone including the maps app. Selecting the navigon fe
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by vvhn 14y ago
The Sun model ? Before the rise of the x86 based servers there pretty much evey major server vendor was doing this. IBM power - AIX, HP PA-RISC-AIX, Sun - you know already, Digital Alpha-Digital UNIX. Practically everybody had(and in the ca

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