La Tortue Cynique / The Cynical Turtle

For example, make sure your the app is in English to French mode, press one button in the app, say to your iPhone "where is the train station," and then a second later your iPhone displays "où est la gare" and you can tap one button to have that spoken in French so that the person in Paris can hear and understand you and point in a direction.

Si à Paris on me demande "où est la gare", je réponds "quelle gare ?" !

Instead, their results show that Android’s WebView control is faster than iOS’s UIWebView control. Mobile Safari is not just a thin wrapper around the system’s UIWebView control — it has its own caching system, its renderer uses asynchronous multithreading (UIWebView does not), and, as of iOS 4.3, Mobile Safari uses its own much faster JavaScript engine (“Nitro”).

Traduction : si vous basez votre application sur UIWebView et que vous espérez profiter des améliorations de vitesse faites sur le navigateur, et bien, tant pis pour votre pomme.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki, 15.07.1995

People go on about how the Kindle is great because there are no other distractions and because you can read it in direct sunlight and whatnot, but my feeling is that they're really saying "I'm avoiding the iPad because I don't want to be seen as slavishly buying everything Apple releases."

C'est ça le fanboyisme : ne pas pas reconnaître des arguments parfaitement valides parce qu'on a oublié tout rationalisme.

As described in a previous Note, I bought the family pack for OS X and iLife updates even though the ‘’single” version can be installed on any number of machines. That alone probably gets me into the lower tier of the Friendly Idiot database somewhere in Apple’s Cloud, but the fact that I also pay $100/yr for MobileMe upgrades me to Platinum status.

C'est là la grande force d'Apple.

Unfortunately, if the data store starts acting up, Google's code uses an exponential backoff algorithm that could cause the export process to grind to a halt (I never actually saw it recover, it just gets slower). Moreover, because export processes take days, you will need to run a nohup background process, but Google's export script requires an interactive login.

Here is my suggestion: spin up a dedicated EC2 instance, push your code and install Google App Engine linux, embed your username/password directly into the script, remove the exponential backoff, and then run the following

Comment exporter un gros jeu de données de Google App Engine ? C'est simple, allez à la concurrence chez Amazon et lancer l'export depuis là-bas, parce que là au moins, ça a une chance d'aboutir.

You can chain up to six Thunderbolt devices. That’s not a problem today as we’re not even aware of six products that support Thunderbolt yet. But if the connection becomes widespread, the six device limit might be a problem for some people. In comparison, FireWire supports 63 devices and USB supports up to 127 devices.

Bah, ça n'est pas une limitation, Apple vendra à ce moment là une extension bien pratique et hors de prix pour contourner cette limitation complètement artificielle.

Sam Ruby, W3C HTML5 Co-Chair, says “Thanks for all the data. I know I asked for it. But no. Focus on other important stuff instead. Ha ha.” (That might be a bit flavored of a paraphrasing…)

HTML 5 restera pour des années encore une bonne blague.