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Every company operating in every country is bound to that country's laws. So Google in China has to accept the Chinese government demands, and Google Maps in Israel already coopera…

These children are dead, there is nothing fake about that, and there is also nothing fake in that they are victims of a variety of factors, including Paul Hansen who manipulated th…

Also, in this paradigm, only one thread calls refresh() at any give time (either the MonitorThread or before the thread is created, the initializer thread). This is contrary to som…

Even in natural sciences, there may be experiments that are not easily reproducible. Finding the Higgs can only be done in a long while (decade or more) with great financial invest…

That isn't clear to me, but in any case, they seem to be talking about a new type of peer review process, which is more immediate -- something akin to forking on github or editing …

Quality control is essential. I have an interest in linguistics. But on the internet, some of the linguistics arguments are ridiculous. There are websites that claim that English (…

In my view, Android does slightly better routing and search. Waze has a much better UI/UX experience. EDIT: And Waze does not do walking/public transportation directions.

There is also the endorsements, which LinkedIn can use to measure how well you know the person.

Waze won the best overall app award at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This might have raised its valuation since the Apple talks were publicized - http://www.globalmobilea…

Maybe Abby is Abby Beck, Designer Extraordinaire who makes user friendly products - http://founderdating.com/about/who-we-are-2/ On various meetup pages, Abby also describes hersel…

The point of an MVP is to control costs, to avoid spending millions of $ and precious time to develop something that no one wants. The first step in avoiding spending that much mon…

The policy does not make that distinction. An app generally needs a backend and it is clear some of the policies are directed towards not the app itself but how it interacts with t…

This seems to be a direct violation of Google Play policy: "Do not send SMS, email, or other messages on behalf of the user without providing the user with the ability to confirm c…

How would this work out in a scenario where the customers are a subset of the users. Say, a restaurant menu service that provides restaurants with enhanced menus for their clients.…

A usage-based trial is really just the same thing as a time-based trial. There is a certain pace at which users are going to use up their usage quota, and that translates to a time…

New? The story was already reported a year and a half ago and published last year. [1] http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/open-eye-you-never-know-what-you-might-unearth-2365…

The article does not describe the primary issue with using templates: that using templates leads to hard-to-manage non-modular code. Templates have their uses, but a big problem is…

I wouldn't buy it. I'm a C++ programmer with over 10 years, I buy software books, but I basically only go for well vetted books. I dislike a chapter heading reading "Exception thro…

Maybe it's not a typo. You can fill in the appropriate verb. ... plan to improve ... ... need to improve ... ... hope to improve ... ... forgot to improve ... ... don't intend to i…

"The company is much more likely to work with the open-source developers" This is an understatement. When you work with an open-source third-party library/module in a commercial co…

Is this at the seed stage or later? Wouldn't VCs prefer to put their money in one who has tried a startup before and failed than a first-timer for whom there are a lot more unknown…

That wikipedia page quotes an article by John Barton that argues that the criteria for obviousness should be restricted. The particular quote you cite is from the section where Bar…

No I don't think that's exact. If you need to know that it's possible in order to make it, then it is non-obvious. Maybe the algorithm is obvious, ie, to do X you need to do steps …

While the patent system seems broken as far as software patents go, some of EFF's corrections (in https://defendinnovation.org/ ) are problematic. This includes "Avoid liability if…