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Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by ludoo »

briandear wrote: post #155
zackmorris wrote: post #110

Apple's websites are among the worst corporate sites I've ever used. I don't say that just to be critical or cynical (ahem), I'm merely pointing out that they have tremendous room for improvement. As opposed to say php.net or stackoverflow.com which still give me that fresh air "why can't all sites be like this?" feeling every time I visit them. Most of the time when I visit Apple's sites now, I just assume that what…

Have you spent any time on the Verizon or Sirius XM sites? How about the average multinational insurance company? "Among the worst corporate sites" is a huge leap, considering the profound amount of crap. Spending 5 minutes using the average electronic medical records (EMR) web application would be enough to make your hair fall out. Forget about interoperability of EMR formats. It's a mess. I'm not defending Apple at…

Given that iOS users worldwide are less than 1/3 of Android users, ignoring Gingerbread would still leave you with roughly double the userbase...

I completely agree with all your other points though. :)

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by ychw »

nwh wrote: post #3

My money is personally on massive, unrecoverable data loss. If you've ever poked around with the way that Apple's website works, you can see that the entire place is a huge mess. There's old servers running ancient (pre-2004) perl scripts alongside the brand new iCloud gear. I can't imagine how the authentication for AppleID is working as login details still work on the ancient pages (think pinstripes and glassy butt…

I think so too. If you look back a couple of years, this kind of things (even if not as severe) happened several times. I actually blogged about it (when their DNS was messed up):

http://www.clingmarks.com/apple-please-be-serious-about-itc/... http://www.clingmarks.com/ios-vs-android-mobile-dev-platform...

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by MAGZine »

briandear wrote: post #155
zackmorris wrote: post #110

Apple's websites are among the worst corporate sites I've ever used. I don't say that just to be critical or cynical (ahem), I'm merely pointing out that they have tremendous room for improvement. As opposed to say php.net or stackoverflow.com which still give me that fresh air "why can't all sites be like this?" feeling every time I visit them. Most of the time when I visit Apple's sites now, I just assume that what…

Have you spent any time on the Verizon or Sirius XM sites? How about the average multinational insurance company? "Among the worst corporate sites" is a huge leap, considering the profound amount of crap. Spending 5 minutes using the average electronic medical records (EMR) web application would be enough to make your hair fall out. Forget about interoperability of EMR formats. It's a mess. I'm not defending Apple at…

Why did you make an android rant on a thread about Apple's (obviously) hacked together website?

if you don't like android, that's fine, but it's a total digression from the thread.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by MAGZine »

rimantas wrote: post #140
tsenkov wrote: post #136

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This makes our best guess to be "security breach".

I receive similar emails from Gmail now and then. Does not me think that Gmail had been compromised.

right, but we don't have multiple people all confirming GMail password resets while GMail just so conveniently happens to be down.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by MAGZine »

Terretta wrote: post #148
mullingitover wrote: post #69

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Apple's customer-facing store was down last night for several hours.

Doesn't matter. People aren't going to decide, gee, I actually wanted a Toshiba.

people also aren't going to decide 'gee, i'm going to go to x store and pay more for something' anymore then they'll go to BB to buy their apple product of choice.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by sergiosgc »

legutierr wrote: post #120
saurik wrote: post #6

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Interesting; the http://devimages.apple.com/ URL seems to return the underlying contents of the file, bypassing the SSI (I'm so happy they use SSI... seriously: I love SSI ;P). You can then see the raw directives, and pull the individual parts. (It isn't quite then fair to say that it is a "broken bit of their template system"; it is more that it is a poor way to setup a static large-file caching endpoint, and may it…

Might I ask what vulnerabilities exist for SSI, and why you describe SSI as a "poor way to setup a static large-file caching endpoint"? I haven't used SSI before, but after researching various technologies, it looks like a solution for my own caching use-case, and I am planning on implementing it. I realize that it's a rather old technology, but as long as there's nothing wrong with it, I think it could work for me.…

If you are now sampling this kind of technology, have a look at ESI (edge side includes), and have a look at varnish cache. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by tlogan »

nwh wrote: post #3

My money is personally on massive, unrecoverable data loss. If you've ever poked around with the way that Apple's website works, you can see that the entire place is a huge mess. There's old servers running ancient (pre-2004) perl scripts alongside the brand new iCloud gear. I can't imagine how the authentication for AppleID is working as login details still work on the ancient pages (think pinstripes and glassy butt…

I don't believe they have massive, unrecoverable data loss. Think about that: If they are so retarded that they dont have backup then Apple is really doomed. Really. But I think they have good IT... I think they detected serious security breach (which might be related to some incompetence but security is very very hard).

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by gurkendoktor »

trackztar wrote: post #17

If it weren't Sunday, I wouldn't speculate, but it is. My 2 cents: iOS7 updates galore. Just imagine everything that could be overhauled. Even the old gray textured background we see is not very much like iOS 7. iOS is in a big transition here. You can't even update apps at all unless you now include 'widescreen' support, for example. If you don't, iTunes reports an Invalid Binary (no default 586 image, etc). So I wo…

I really hope you're right and the Dev Center returns without explanation, but with neon icons and a "flat" design. The backlash would help Apple to adjust its priorities again. (Services over fashion)

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by berkut »

jstsch wrote: post #149
berkut wrote: post #123

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It's got a master stylesheet attached for the tabs, but admittedly, even without it, it's not identical. http://imgur.com/68b9eoO - is native Cocoa moc-up in XCode. I concede the borders are slightly different, but I personally wouldn't have noticed or minded. The render button is a custom button - the only difference from the native one is the right-hand menu triangle which isn't native. Qt has styles, and draws con…

Thank you, very interesting. Am I correct that the button 'Visible to: All' is basically an action button where you can use the arrow on the side to change the action within? Those are not really common on OS X. Guess that's why it looks a bit out of place. I would side with the reader below, I think that going for a completely different look works better than 'almost' native. Ableton Live is a good example I think t…

Not quite: it's a highly-custom multiple selection mask button (with intelligent title based on the selection options) - doesn't really have any native equivalent on any platform as far as I'm aware:

http://imgur.com/xXM7TBT

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by freehunter »

slowdown wrote: post #83
freehunter wrote: post #73

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Because there are no facts, Apple hasn't said a word. The alternative is that we ignore this. At least with this article (which no one has to read), there's a place for HN Apple devs to talk amongst each other.

>a place for HN Apple devs to talk amongst each other So, you're telling me that I need to go read his article, earn him pageviews and ad money and come back here to discuss about the issue? I think a Ask HN post would have done the job, much better, no? Just saw your edit: >(which no one has to read) wut?

Edit? No, I wrote that in one try.

No one has to read the article, and it seems like a lot of people don't read the article before commenting. The comment box doesn't give you a quiz on the article before letting you comment.

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