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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 it's bad for the market, bad for privacy, bad for other companies and ultimately bad for the consumers.

throwaway49873

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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 given platform will be written in the same languages, which mainly has to do with tooling. A lot of really good programmers are awful developers.

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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 Tyco in 1988. Of course the Lego design was copied from Kiddicraft to begin with.

More than anything, the family that founded Lego handed over the CEO post to a former business consultant in 2003.

http://www.dehns.com/site/information/dehns_articles/will_le... http://brickfetish.com/timeline/1947.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rgen_Vig_Knudstorp

throwaway49873

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

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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, those college kids have resorted to technical means of avoiding detection - which create a gigantic crowd of encrypted and obfuscated data in which 'real' criminals can hide. These evasion methods are the very same techniques which can frustrate legitimate and useful law enforcement, which as an unintended side-effect, suffer. The ability to catch genuine terrorists and child pornographers is significantly limited through the short sighted actions of the major media companies."

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2007/03/how-riaa-and-mpaa-unknow...

throwaway49873

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"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 reformatted (i.e. just using TRIM [...]"

Modern SSDs should support the "ATA Secure Erase" command which erases all the chips simultaneously, including any area used for wear leveling.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Disc

throwaway49873

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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.

throwaway49873

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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.

throwaway49873

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

throwaway49873

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"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 any community.

throwaway49873

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

throwaway49873

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

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