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Post by phoebear611 on Jun 5, 2014 2:50:36 GMT -8
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Post by rob_london on Jun 5, 2014 3:03:56 GMT -8
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Post by rezonate on Jun 5, 2014 3:25:06 GMT -8
Since the late 1990s and my last fleeting moments as a programmer, I've been excited about the promise of Bluetooth. Here's an article from WIRED from 2004 heralding the resurrection of Bluetooth from the technology scrap heap. To save you a click, the article talks about how Bluetooth is showing up in cars, in phones, but inter-vendor operability is lacking. Fast forward ten whole years and we're just finally getting to "one protocol to rule them all". Apple has been injecting BTLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) devices into pockets all over the planet, and iBeacon-aware software to create a stealthy cloud. They will flip one switch, which will be a hardware bridge leveraging iBeacon and Continuity, and unite the home. They will flip another switch, which will be several major vendors using iBeacon and TouchID-aware Point-of-Sale hardware to take payments. And millions upon millions of us will be locked to their ecosystem irrevocably. Bill Gates once said something about how we always overestimate where technology will be in five years, but underestimate what will happen in ten. Bluetooth 1.0 was like a lightbulb without a power distribution network. After almost 20 years, we're going to finally see the vision become reality. Thanks Apple!
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Post by artman1033 on Jun 5, 2014 3:53:11 GMT -8
The 4 years work to write SWIFT: nondot.org/sabre/I started work on the Swift Programming Language (wikipedia) in July of 2010. I implemented much of the basic language structure, with only a few people knowing of its existence. A few other (amazing) people started contributing in earnest late in 2011, and it became a major focus for the Apple Developer Tools group in July 2013. The Swift language is the product of tireless effort from a team of language experts, documentation gurus, compiler optimization ninjas, and an incredibly important internal dogfooding group who provided feedback to help refine and battle-test ideas. Of course, it also greatly benefited from the experiences hard-won by many other languages in the field, drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list.
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Post by artman1033 on Jun 5, 2014 4:18:18 GMT -8
Some fellas SHOULD NOT be allowed to buy APPLE products! Darrien Lamont Tucker, 39, of Potomac was charged with five counts of visual surveillance with prurient intent, officials said, accusing him of using an Apple iPad to take inappropriate videos of an 18-year-old foreign-exchange student who was staying in his home. Tucker thought he was doing so furtively, by sliding an edge of the iPad under a bathroom door, according to charging documents. But the victim noticed the iPad, took images of it with her iPhone and eventually set up a video camera outside the bathroom that captured Tucker crouching on the ground outside the door, trying to make another video, detectives alleged. www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/foreign-exchange-student-accuses-potomac-man-of-recording-her-in-shower/2014/06/04/ee21c39e-ec11-11e3-b98c-72cef4a00499_story.htmlI AM SORRY LADIES. I had to laugh... He should have bought a GOOGLE glass and "accidently" left it in the bathroom.
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Post by redinaustin on Jun 5, 2014 4:35:17 GMT -8
Since the late 1990s and my last fleeting moments as a programmer, I've been excited about the promise of Bluetooth. Here's an article from WIRED from 2004 heralding the resurrection of Bluetooth from the technology scrap heap. To save you a click, the article talks about how Bluetooth is showing up in cars, in phones, but inter-vendor operability is lacking. Fast forward ten whole years and we're just finally getting to "one protocol to rule them all". Apple has been injecting BTLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) devices into pockets all over the planet, and iBeacon-aware software to create a stealthy cloud. They will flip one switch, which will be a hardware bridge leveraging iBeacon and Continuity, and unite the home. They will flip another switch, which will be several major vendors using iBeacon and TouchID-aware Point-of-Sale hardware to take payments. And millions upon millions of us will be locked to their ecosystem irrevocably. Bill Gates once said something about how we always overestimate where technology will be in five years, but underestimate what will happen in ten. Bluetooth 1.0 was like a lightbulb without a power distribution network. After almost 20 years, we're going to finally see the vision become reality. Thanks Apple! Print this out and attach to refrigerator for this is the future!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2014 4:51:02 GMT -8
Apple's work on iMessage is REALLY making Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp for $19B look like a boondoggle. The more time WS has to digest all that Apple launched at WWDC, the better it gets.
The diehard skeptics bemoaning Apple's "lack of innovation" need a lobotomy.
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Post by chinacat on Jun 5, 2014 5:20:27 GMT -8
It just struck me that Brian White's $777 PT may have been prescient in more than one way
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Post by mace on Jun 5, 2014 5:28:11 GMT -8
The 4 years work to write SWIFT: nondot.org/sabre/I started work on the Swift Programming Language (wikipedia) in July of 2010. I implemented much of the basic language structure, with only a few people knowing of its existence. A few other (amazing) people started contributing in earnest late in 2011, and it became a major focus for the Apple Developer Tools group in July 2013. The Swift language is the product of tireless effort from a team of language experts, documentation gurus, compiler optimization ninjas, and an incredibly important internal dogfooding group who provided feedback to help refine and battle-test ideas. Of course, it also greatly benefited from the experiences hard-won by many other languages in the field, drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list. Colleges produce too many PhDs on language. In real world, different languages are developed because of geographical separation. In China, all the 1+ billion Chinese are forced to learn Mandarin. In Internet, we gyrated to English. Why are computer scientists making so many programming languages? When I'm in the college in the late 70s, only assembly language, BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL and PASCAL. Now, we have almost two dozens.
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Post by artman1033 on Jun 5, 2014 5:51:21 GMT -8
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Post by chinacat on Jun 5, 2014 6:10:36 GMT -8
Not sure that I believe, or would be happy if, Apple To Abandon Headphone Jack, despite some cool features that it would enable, but I have to admit that it would be a very Apple-like thing to do.
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Post by phoebear611 on Jun 5, 2014 6:26:59 GMT -8
C'mon .... Gimme a little thrill today and tell me you read my morning post?!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2014 6:38:57 GMT -8
C'mon .... Gimme a little thrill today and tell me you read my morning post?! Looks like Artman samsunged you. Now you know the thrill Apple feels.
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Post by phoebear611 on Jun 5, 2014 6:49:32 GMT -8
Other than another hardware give away potentially - this AMZN smartphone gets the stock to move like this?! Geez!
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Post by rob_london on Jun 5, 2014 7:05:21 GMT -8
It just struck me that Brian White's $777 PT may have been prescient in more than one way He's also had price targets of $666, $888 and $1111...
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Post by appledoc on Jun 5, 2014 7:34:40 GMT -8
Not sure that I believe, or would be happy if, Apple To Abandon Headphone Jack, despite some cool features that it would enable, but I have to admit that it would be a very Apple-like thing to do. People use wired headphones?
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Post by jmolloy on Jun 5, 2014 7:48:16 GMT -8
People use wired headphones? I do. Audible App skips something rotten on my Bluetooth pair. Music plays fine though. Go figure.
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Post by bud777 on Jun 5, 2014 8:02:43 GMT -8
The 4 years work to write SWIFT: nondot.org/sabre/I started work on the Swift Programming Language (wikipedia) in July of 2010. I implemented much of the basic language structure, with only a few people knowing of its existence. A few other (amazing) people started contributing in earnest late in 2011, and it became a major focus for the Apple Developer Tools group in July 2013. The Swift language is the product of tireless effort from a team of language experts, documentation gurus, compiler optimization ninjas, and an incredibly important internal dogfooding group who provided feedback to help refine and battle-test ideas. Of course, it also greatly benefited from the experiences hard-won by many other languages in the field, drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list. Colleges produce too many PhDs on language. In real world, different languages are developed because of geographical separation. In China, all the 1+ billion Chinese are forced to learn Mandarin. In Internet, we gyrated to English. Why are computer scientists making so many programming languages? When I'm in the college in the late 70s, only assembly language, BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL and PASCAL. Now, we have almost two dozens. Aren't you glad we don't speak Old English? Languages evolve. Sometimes smoothly, sometimes in sudden leaps. Back in the late 70's, actually in the 60's you also had LISP and SIMULA that evolved into SMALLTALK that devolved into C++ and Objective C and JAVA and most of the modern languages. The inheritance properties of modern OOL's make a lot of the technology we see possible. I started programming assembly language systems in 1967 and I still think it is the purest form of programming, but I cannot see us making the progress we have made without the newer languages. I am still programming BTW, and learning SWIFT is on my to-do list.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2014 8:48:53 GMT -8
Just learned that Starbucks is switching to Google to provide its WiFi. I guess I'll be using cellular or tethering exclusively now.
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Post by coma on Jun 5, 2014 9:05:26 GMT -8
That makes me glad I don't like coffee.
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Post by dreamRaj on Jun 5, 2014 9:10:26 GMT -8
Amazon on a tear with their "3D" smartphone thingy.
I wonder if they'll continue with their bullshit of not reporting sales numbers with the phone too. Kindles are (said to be) selling very well but nobody knows how many.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2014 9:13:11 GMT -8
Amazon on a tear with their "3D" smartphone thingy. I wonder if they'll continue with their bullshit of not reporting sales numbers with the phone too. Kindles are (said to be) selling very well but nobody knows how many. No one will care. A 3D phone sounds dumb and from the mock ups I've seen, it looks worse. Running a forked version of Android isn't exactly a selling point either. Who does Amazon use for maps?
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Post by PikesPique on Jun 5, 2014 9:17:37 GMT -8
Mace, there are actually hundreds to thousands, not dozens, of programming languages out there.
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Post by chinacat on Jun 5, 2014 9:19:24 GMT -8
It just struck me that Brian White's $777 PT may have been prescient in more than one way He's also had price targets of $666, $888 and $1111... Yup, and soon to be $111. It will be mildly interesting to see how many anal-ists just divide current targets by 7 and how many use the opportunity to hop aboard the momo train.
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Post by moltenfire on Jun 5, 2014 9:59:12 GMT -8
Anyone betting money on a $645 pin for Friday?
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Post by incorrigible on Jun 5, 2014 10:04:30 GMT -8
Anyone betting money on a $645 pin for Friday? I'll go with $640 based on pain levels. The $590s for 6/21 still scare me
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Post by Mav on Jun 5, 2014 10:46:13 GMT -8
Amazon on a tear with their "3D" smartphone thingy. I wonder if they'll continue with their bullshit of not reporting sales numbers with the phone too. Kindles are (said to be) selling very well but nobody knows how many. You know they will. WS swooning over the black plastic-looking case
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2014 10:52:52 GMT -8
Let Amazon have the Hee Haw demographic. A race to the bottom hasn't done much for its Kindles -- if it had, don't you think Bezos would be shouting about it from the rooftop?
Plus, Bezos has zero taste, like Steve Ballmer.
Like Phoebes, I can't stand the guy.
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Post by Mav on Jun 5, 2014 10:57:49 GMT -8
Mercel, MDN has gotten to you ("Hee Haw demographic"). Though in this case they may have a point.
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Post by JDSoCal on Jun 5, 2014 11:54:23 GMT -8
(Go Rangers! Heartbreak first game ) Hmm, that isn't how the LA media reported it. The 4 years work to write SWIFT: This should give non-programmers some idea of how significant an undertaking it is to create a new programming language. For a company with the level of scrutiny of Apple to pull it off in total secrecy is astounding. And only a non-programmer could possibly think this is not a glorious achievement. Programming languages evolve to adapt to specific hardware and operating systems. Swift is specifically written to best implement Apple's modern hardware and OS's, as opposed to a generalist language invented before said products even existed. And to make developing more accessible to the masses (the old Objective-C was an impediment for many). Apple has come a long way from the "infamous, expensive, and obscure" Inside Macintosh volumes of the 1980's. Interestingly, while the barriers to entry for Apple devices were once quite daunting, the goals of the OS have not changed much since the early years of the Mac. From 1988's P rogrammer's Introduction to the Macintosh Family: Sound familiar? to take inappropriate videos of an 18-year-old foreign-exchange student who was staying in his home. Hmm, apparently I've been misled about the whole purpose of having an 18-year-old foreign-exchange student stay in one's home. Notes to self: 1) Cancel exchange student; 2) Return spycams to Fry's.
So, a report about iWatch in production and shipping with iPhone 6, according to Brian White. And the new Apple ad, is it about fitness and health, or does it really hit on wearables? Edit: PED points out 4 new YouTube iPhone features. I really like the Esa-Pekka Salonen spots. Interestingly, they are awfully elitist (less than 1/100th of 1% of the world would know who he is, let alone see his work in person). A 180 from the Joe Average douchebags typically featured in iPhone ads whom I'd want nothing to do with. The diehard skeptics bemoaning Apple's "lack of innovation" need a lobotomy. Hopefully, there will be a HealthKit app for that. Amazon on a tear with their "3D" smartphone thingy.
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