JavaScript is a great language. It has a simple syntax, large ecosystem and, what is most important, a great community. At the same time, we all know that JavaScript is quite a funny language with ...

Python allows many shortcuts with Boolean expressions. Most everything in Python has a truth value. As noted earlier, we refer to the truth values of anything other than Booleans with the whimsical ...

Falsy values are values that are considered false when evaluated in a Boolean context. In other words, they are non-Boolean values that are treated as if they were Boolean false when used in ...

The || operator is frequently used in logical statements, as well as defaulting to non-falsy values if one is found. It's a flexible operator which is core to understanding JavaScript. If you're ...

This week, President Obama launched a prominent social media campaign on behalf of “net neutrality” and urged the FCC to “keep the Internet free and open.” The man has gall. This is the same ...

House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith wants to know how and why a federal agency gave nearly a million tax dollars to a project studying targeting of political speech on ...

Five leading groups in the computer science industry are urging Congress to consult experts when investigating the funding of a university project that studies Twitter trends. They said the “Truthy” ...

Ajit Pai is a member of the Federal Communications Commission. If you take to Twitter to express your views on a hot-button issue, does the government have an interest in deciding whether you are ...