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It's not Yandex that wants the play store, it's the device manufacturers. Google is using it's position as the leading android store to prevent competition in other areas. I think …

Programming is a craft. You'll learn to be a good developer by developing applications. Norvig and Hickey are more in the research domain. A far majority of application for any giv…

The patent expired a long time ago, the original patent was filed in 1958. They tried to trademark the shape indefinitely, which recently was denied. They also lost a case against …

piracy = cracking. cheating = trainers i.e. game cheats, which is very similar.

To quote a random article on the subject: "What is the moral to this story? The record companies have made an entire generation of college students into criminals, and as such, tho…

"CD's corrode from the inside out" Archival Disc is supposedly the solution to that [0]. Haven't seen any details how it works though. "SSDs left sitting around can always be refor…

When it's easy to fire someone, like in the US, keeping them on becomes, in the minds of people, taking a position on the issue.

When it's easy to fire someone, like in the US, keeping them on becomes, in the minds of people, a position on the issue.

Just have to wait for all the patents to expire I guess.

"Atom is repurposed webkit" Hopefully Github will come to their senses and instead start using Skia directly, like ST3 does. Proper 2D library bindings would be super valuable to a…

I wasn't like it was a novel technology either. I've seen similar systems in Europe for at least a decade.

A lot of people want money to be they deciding factor for success, even across the political spectrum.