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'Happy Birthday' Hits Sour Notes When It Comes To Song's Free Usenpr.org
"Happy Birthday to You" is sung everywhere, but because it's copyrighted, it's rarely heard on TV or in movies. A filmmaker has filed a lawsuit seeking to make the song part of the public domain. - autoapi.com
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news.ycombinator.com
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Working with unreliable web APIs • Instavest Blogblog.instavest.com
To be clear, you should not compromise on API quality for mission critical things. We do not do this. Sometimes you have to work with web APIs that have reliability issues and or inconsistent error responses – and changing APIs is not always an... | In... -
Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92%wsj.com
Roughly 1,000 companies make smartphones. Just one—Apple—reaps nearly all the profits. -
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From Lenses to Yoneda Embeddingbartoszmilewski.com
Lenses are a fascinating subject. Edward Kmett's lens library is an indispensable tool in every Haskell programmer's toolbox. I set out to write this blog post with the goal of describing some new ... -
sourcedna.com
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density.io
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Removal of sun.misc.Unsafe in Java 9 - A disaster in the makingblog.dripstat.com
Oracle plans to remove sun.misc.Unsafe in Java 9. This is an absolute disaster in the making and has the potential to completely destroy the entire ecosystem around Java. Almost every tool, infrastructure software, high performance library built using... -
news.ycombinator.com
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shop.soloshot.com
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Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92%wsj.com
Roughly 1,000 companies make smartphones. Just one—Apple—reaps nearly all the profits. -
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A Look at the MOTHER 2 Sideearthboundcentral.com
The question's come up a lot since I released my MOTHER 1+2 translation the other day, so I should try to explain why it would be a lot of work to fully translate the MOTHER 2 side of the game too. EarthBound's Text System What I hear a lot is, "Can't ... -
What does it mean for an algorithm to be fair?jeremykun.com
In 2014 the White House commissioned a 90-day study that culminated in a report (pdf) on the state of "big data" and related technologies. The authors give many recommendations, including this cent... -
The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattlenewyorker.com
When the giant fault line along the Pacific Northwest ruptures, it could be our worst natural disaster ever. -
What Does It Take to Rename a Building?atlasobscura.com
The decision to change the name of the United States' busiest rail station was made in a day. -
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