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Don't paint all of art history with one brush.

The text on the website is misleadingly suggestive that all artists are in USA.

What does current law have to do with it? Works for hire are generally copyrighted by the hirer, and copyrights can be transferred by contract.

People are mad that $4B was spent building this tacky thing instead of on improving the city for not multimillionaires.

A useful prediction is a prediction that matches experimental results.

Why do people owe you their work for you to commercially exploit for free? Open core is bad for everyone else except you?

More output means more bugs.

Personas are a massive improvement over designing for yourself or worse designing for what's fun to design.

My neighbor is a widower schoolteacher who gets discounts on things including property taxes on her mansion because of that, despite being multimillionaire by marit inheritance and…

Loud restaurants do that intentionally to scare off old unsexy people and to make customers leave sooner for faster turnaround. Netflix does captioning very well.

All Slack wanted was to C&D was trademark infringement. > UPDATE Sept 14th 2018: After talks with folks from Slack and a rename… Refined (fka Taut) (fka BetterSlack) is now live ba…

Kotlin is a light syntax for a coding style. It's as easy for a Java dev to learn Kotlin as it is to learn Spring or Hibernate or whatever library or framework the team at your new…

Google made $billions from Java while Sun went near bankrupt, and is now a top-10 wealthiest company in USA. Oracle trying to get $ from Google in partnership with the former Sun i…

Startups don't use Java because Java is for large-scale stable long- lived enterprises, not for prototyping simple small web apps that might be thrown away in a couple of years.

Is a value type different from a value class? https://github.com/google/auto/blob/master/value/userguide/i...

Being right is different from convincing the people in power to give your money back.

Bail is a security deposit. In English bail is generally used to mean a deposit against a promise to appear in criminal court, but it's the same concept.

When you walk into a grocery store, you assume the fruit isn't plastic. When you walk into a furniture store, you do. Why? Ambient context.