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The text on the website is misleadingly suggestive that all artists are in USA.
What does current law have to do with it? Works for hire are generally copyrighted by the hirer, and copyrights can be transferred by contract.
People are mad that $4B was spent building this tacky thing instead of on improving the city for not multimillionaires.
Re:Why falsificationism is false on Saturday May 11, 2019 @06:03PM (#19888662)
A useful prediction is a prediction that matches experimental results.
Re:Don Norman on how design fails older consumers on Saturday May 11, 2019 @09:10AM (#19885974)
More output means more bugs.
Re:Don Norman on how design fails older consumers on Saturday May 11, 2019 @09:10AM (#19885972)
Personas are a massive improvement over designing for yourself or worse designing for what's fun to design.
Re:Don Norman on how design fails older consumers on Saturday May 11, 2019 @08:57AM (#19885919)
Loud restaurants do that intentionally to scare off old unsexy people and to make customers leave sooner for faster turnaround.

Netflix does captioning very well.

Re:Don Norman on how design fails older consumers on Saturday May 11, 2019 @08:55AM (#19885910)
All Slack wanted was to C&D was trademark infringement.

> UPDATE Sept 14th 2018: After talks with folks from Slack and a rename… Refined (fka Taut) (fka BetterSlack) is now live back

Re:IT Runs on Java 8 on Friday May 10, 2019 @08:02PM (#19883445)
Kotlin is a light syntax for a coding style. It's as easy for a Java dev to learn Kotlin as it is to learn Spring or Hibernate or whatever library or framework the team at your new job uses
Re:IT Runs on Java 8 on Friday May 10, 2019 @08:00PM (#19883434)
Google made $billions from Java while Sun went near bankrupt, and is now a top-10 wealthiest company in USA. Oracle trying to get $ from Google in partnership with the former Sun is a different issue from your company's risk.
Re:IT Runs on Java 8 on Friday May 10, 2019 @07:56PM (#19883409)
Startups don't use Java because Java is for large-scale stable long- lived enterprises, not for prototyping simple small web apps that might be thrown away in a couple of years.
Re:IT Runs on Java 8 on Friday May 10, 2019 @07:53PM (#19883394)
Is a value type different from a value class?

https://github.com/google/auto/blob/master/value/userguide/i...

Being right is different from convincing the people in power to give your money back.
Bail is a security deposit. In English bail is generally used to mean a deposit against a promise to appear in criminal court, but it's the same concept.
Re:Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features on Thursday May 09, 2019 @10:18AM (#19868489)
When you walk into a grocery store, you assume the fruit isn't plastic. When you walk into a furniture store, you do.

Why? Ambient context.