...if other programmers weren't so fucking ignorant.

Exactly. Of course APIs are copyrightable. But this one was perpetually and irrevocably licensed. The only question is whether Google is complying with the terms of the license.

Then take care of it, you worthless fucks.

...where the CEO's idea of the time it takes to develop anything is off by a factor of five, and every developer is also an IT guy and half a dozen other things, how exactly?

They lost me when they called golf a sport.

There's the trouble. Google's disclosure came on a day when nobody believes what they read on the Internet.

Users might be more inclined to support them if they stopped ignoring what users want.

Say it's a personal quest for fame and glory.

The original NES must have raised a generation of cold-blooded killers.

I don't spend money, just all my free time.

The article makes the point that there's a significant amount of matter in the interstellar space within our galaxy, which suggests that if other stars in our galaxy were made out of antimatter instead of matter, we would know about it because we'd detect annihilations. But can we say the same about intergalactic space? The article glosses over this question and skips to pointing out that we don't detect annihilations within other galaxies. What if those other galaxies are mostly antimatter, but there's essentially no matter to annihilate in intergalactic space? (Perhaps because it already annihilated in the early universe. Could that be the source of the CMB?)

Lists of best and worst things always omit something obvious or include something stupid as a way to make discussion of the list go viral.

That would be awesome until the first time your brain got sunburned.

Can I get a bulletproof one?

Neither "Tsarnaev" nor "Tsarnayev" is the correct spelling; the correct spelling is "ЦÐÑнÐÌÐÐ".

As another commenter mentioned, utility companies solved this problem decades ago with technology like Soundex. Our intelligence apparatus is apparently crippled by incompetence, laziness, haste, provincialism, or all of the above.