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Singular they predates singular you in the English language by about three hundred years.

> how does it not make more sense to go with MacStadium? If you're already in AWS, your deployment infrastructure and tooling is already configured and tuned for AWS. Deploying a M…

Whilst you can lose a trademark for not enforcing it, you cannot lose a copyright by not enforcing it (in the United States).

Speaking from experience, OpenStack was no longer hot by 2015. :)

* A protocol that leaks metadata, including some message content, at the envelope layer. Could you elaborate more on this? I don't really understand what you mean. He means: EHLO y…

Speaking as one of roughly fifty founders thereof, and also the founder of a (now acquired) startup in the space, it really isn't. The point the OP made about needing an Ops team i…

You could leverage the TPM and some version of remote attestation and only permit key-requests from attested machines. Alternatively (or concurrently), you could PXE boot all devic…

I spent a bit getting it to work on OS X. The ASM becomes: movq $0x2000004, %rax ; // BSD syscalls are divided into classes. movq $1, %rdi ; // 64-bit registers use %rdi instead of…

With very constrained exceptions, in most jurisdictions of the United States, it's entirely legal to take a photograph of an individual in a public place and post it to the Interne…

I'm afraid you misunderstood my point, as I never mentioned software patents at all. The iPhone is a synthesis of prior research that (in 2007) encompasses advances in both hardwar…

I did say I was making an analogy, not establishing a direct link between patents and copyright. Patents protect a specific method of implementing an idea, so Palm synthesizing a s…

Patents are time-limited not eternal. The first company to build a laptop most certainly obtained a patent on it, as did the creator of the first flat-screen.

If the resulting synthesis is something new, why wouldn't we want to protect it legally? To make a literary analogy, any book written in an established genre necessarily synthesize…

That assumes that every sale is identical and that the lessons one need learn to make a $150,000.00 sale are identical to those one need learn to sell something for $150.00.

I do not know what experience you have with traditional publishing, but Charles Stross (cstross here on HN) wrote a series of blog posts[1] that explain rather in detail the benefi…

One of the complaints about Google's true-name policy is that it unfairly discriminates against people who don't have Western sounding names, or who aren't middle-class white guys.…

Speaking as a caucasian male with a name that's basically unique in the world (there is only one person who has my name but that might have been a typo in the article as every wher…

With the proliferation of buttons on most android phones I've seen, they could have easily added a hardware unlock button.

The Amazon judgment only denied the preliminary injunction, it didn't resolve the ownership of the trademark (if any). The case is still on-going and Apple may introduce additional…

How exactly does one build a black hole without obliterating ones host species/planet/solar system?

There are several exponential growth laws in computer science: for example, Nielsen's law for bandwidth, Kryder's law for storage. It's misleading to address them all as Moore's.

C++ is one of the languages blessed by Apple in addition to C, Objective-C, and Javascript.