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You're quite right. I hadn't realised that the constitution relates to actions between the government and the people only. Reading HN comments is always educational! I suppose it's…

I think they know it's illegal / unconstitutional. They're banking on self-censorship by people who aren't certain where they stand legally.

Basil Fawlty would be proud!

It's a good idea to pick a game framework first, which will shorten the tutorial considerably, since the basic Android specific stuff would likely require several tutorial of its o…

To be fair to the author, there are various issues, particularly for technologists. The uncomfortable relationship between the government and the web, censorship, piracy, and net s…

That's what Marissa Mayer said too :p

This is, alas, the inevitable consequence of the technological progression that most of us here strive towards on a daily basis.

Ebooks are obviously superior technology, however the technology is of more benefit to the publisher and distributor than the reader. In fact, an Ebook requires a particular device…

It must be hard to make the case that the domain was stolen, since they simply allowed it return to the market place where it was legally bought by somebody else. In the UK a trade…

There is also the Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace ( http://www.i-comp.org/ ), a fairly neutral sounding lobby group which (according to Wikipedia) is sponsored by M…

While I agree that the best way to learn coding is to just get on with it, I'm can't agree about "Forget Books". It is true that there are some terrible books on software (possibly…

It isn't easy, although paradoxically I prefer the 9-5 to be interesting work in its own right. It is surprising how many ideas can flow from your day job into your own projects.