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For those struggling to beat the AI, Connect Four is a solved game [1] and whoever goes first can force a win by starting in the middle column. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co…

What's happening here is not a shift to net 90, and it's also not an attempt by Apple to rip any rightsholders off. Instead, it appears Apple and the major labels believe that thre…

There's nothing in the contract between Sony and Spotify that's all that surprising. Even the large looking advance of $45M is only a small fraction of what Spotify would have paid…

21 will surely dole out some of their 75% cut to hardware integration partners as a distribution fee. The ripoff here is for anyone ignorant enough to run one of these devices.

RIAA.

If you've ever wondered what the real value of going to Harvard is, it's all in this sentence from the article: > On a hike up Camelback Mountain in Arizona, he pitched the idea to…

This may underrate the real difficulty of Spotify: convincing record labels to let them give away music for free on the assumption freemium would have a reasonable conversion rate …

Ironically, if developers like yourself had adopted the API, they wouldn't be deprecating it now.

Roughly, "hearsay" means that the person testifying to a fact was not a witness to it themselves or does not have direct knowledge over it. So it's entirely possible that some part…

More likely: a push to become the next PayPal, but using the Bitcoin network rather than the standard ACH banking network. Here's one step towards that: http://avc.com/2015/01/feat…

My reading: Bell Labs folks would have ordered it Programming > Math >> Computer Science. RTM was good at programming, was being taught CS at college, and took too long to learn th…

For a certain definition of "success", yes definitely. Uber's sky-high valuation (and the accompanying deluge of investment dollars) hinges on their ability to address a market lar…

At the $13/share pricing, Box will be paying its previous investors back penalty shares. Apparently they promised a share price of $20. [1] 1. http://pando.com/2014/07/08/boxs-upda…

The fault for Hollywood's endless sequels, remakes, and remakes of the remake should probably be laid primarily at the feet of the American viewing public. We won't make the hike t…

Way more fun, at least.

> I don't think it's as simple as "if someone dies there needs to be a trial". But there almost always is in reality, if there's a reasonable suspect. The only exception seems to b…

Perhaps because there's a lot of breathless press [1] about Bitcoin solving this "impossible" problem that was in actually solved decades ago? [1] http://nonchalantrepreneur.com/po…

Square loses something like 25 cents per Square Cash transaction [1], and now they want more transactions? I wonder if Snapchat is paying those fees, and if so how they think they'…

The solution to number 2 (if it really needs one) is simple to use `if !ok` instead to push the exceptional case to the right.