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SESTA FOSTA is heavily criticized because people are worried about keyword based censorship. The Recognant API doesn't use keywords, it use NLU, and so it is much less likely to fl…

Yeah, actually they will. It isn't in xls, it is typically in an XML format. and since google provides the info to the NSA on demand does it matter which of them does the collectio…

I was feeling sentimental on Thanksgiving, but I also think it is important for younger entrepreneurs to see that startups aren't something you build over night, and many don't sta…

Finding the prime factors of large numbers is hard. Cryptography is almost exclusively about picking two Large Primes, Multiplying them, and then using that very large, very hard t…

Your enthusiasm as great. But be aware by saying you think this is something you can do in a week you are telling the world you think programming is a semi-skilled job. I learned t…

Picking a name that conflicts with a major trade mark seems like a bad idea.

If this is the case then every developer working at a 12 hour a day Start up, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook (who all are anti-moonlighting) are bad developers. I don't have side …

Natural Language Understanding is how we talk to our devices, and while the tech savvy interact with phones like they learn commands for a programming language, the majority of peo…

This has been going around along with the Chemo Therapy doesn't work thread. The problem with people like the author is they think all cancer is the same. They try to apply informa…

Was this in English? Maybe that would help explain how the author got so much wrong. I love API's. I love sharing API's with others. I might have even gone along with the article i…

The author doesn't understand copyright. There is a difference between Legal, and beyond prosecution. You as an individual living in a far off land (Australia) can't be prosecuted …

I do this with Squid, or Fiddler depending on platform. I have done a similar trick for the entire lan by doing port forwarding on DD-WRT and similar. I pretty routinely highjack p…

If only it were so simple. And if you think it is that's probably because you don't understand. Frontend often is WAY more than UI. When you are building a client/server applicatio…

My company's core product ( http://www.stremor.com ) is designed to take unstructured data from text and convert it to structured data. But also look at qualitative factors from la…

You can trademark anything that isn't already trademarked, but you have to defend the trademark if you want to enforce the trademark. Trademarks are a lot like patents, the due dil…

I am the lone Windows user in my office. I could use a post on how to go from Mac Development to Windows. Only half kidding. I don't want to make this a Win vs. Mac thread, but I t…

I think most the people who write these posts are clueless as to what burnout is. You can give people money, pats on the back, pizza parties but if you run them hard enough they wi…