a) our systems and operations ought to be prepared for and recoverable from outages at any time of day
b) our developers and operations are best prepared to do their best work when they are most alert -- early in their work day
I see no technical reasons why maintenance can't be performed at all hours of a day, without interrupting normal business. Perhaps a misnomer, but maintenance does not always mean an outage or disruption of services, just like an outage should not be titled a maintenance (Re: Apple Dev Center -maintenance- outage).
Makes sense. Nobody as large as NYT organization would do their maintenance during weekday morning hours. So there must be another behind-the-scene story altogether.
Since almost all stores are owned by Starbucks (some stores in airports and malls are not corp. stores), shouldn't they have a clear, firm wide policy?
For all the store I've visited before, other than indirect operation stores, pretty much have very consistent policies regarding pretty much every aspect of their operations.
The one store I was treated differently (which was a direct operation store) was little surprising to me, but might have been something to do with bizarre laws in their local jurisdiction, in which case they wouldn't have much choice.
It could have been better if they could accommodate me somehow, though...
Can you try again and tell me what you see as the copyright statement in the footer? i.e. this: http://cl.ly/image/2I0a16260X0v what do YOU see? (it will tell me which server your hitting) - thanks!
Looking at the maps for Japan on OSM and iOS 6, if they are using OSM data it must be a very small subset and they're adding a ton of crap over it.
For example: they usually have one label for a train/subway station which is well placed and then a second label for the same station 200m to the south-east. OSM has nothing like this. They must be cobbling many datasets together with no fact-checking...
That comparisson isn't fair as Facebook/Twitter are also the names of the corresponding companies and Facebook just went through a rough IPO (not to mention all the privacy issues people keep complaining about).
