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> 'Resourcefulness' is entirely dependent upon knowledge of and experience in a particular area.

I think you kind of missing the point. Solving something when you know the area well is not what is it about.

Quite the opposite in fact. The question is what do you do when you don't know what the answer is.

Are you frozen by the "I don't know how to talk to a VC" thing or you can say "ok, I've never talked to a VC but I'm sure I can figure out how to meet one. Lets see how do I start".

Its not about not asking others for help. Its about not expecting someone else with "more expertise in the area" to do it for you.

> Furthermore, I don't want experience in that, because I recognize that I'm far better off focusing on my strengths than my weaknesses

Its a valid position, but its also one that make you not well suited to be a startup founder IMHO. And not resourceful, at least not in the sense of this blogpost, and possibly not in pg's sense.
> So if you find yourself in such a situation, either donate enough money to keep the maintainer happy or step up and contribute.

I think saying essentially "throw unlimited funds at it with no promise of a solution or 'patch it yourself'" is also simply glossing over the problem. "I prefer it" is a great justification for you, it doesn't solve the issue for anyone else though and it's not a productive line of thinking.
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I suppose it depends on how you define 'open source', but Windows has released the source to those willing to sign an NDA and all that.

I know a few people with copies.
My boss, an old guy in his 50, scoffed the notion of "Made in Canada" (or "Made in USA").

He said that "Made in X" (CA/US, interchangeable) used to be good when they first came out. But quality drop significantly that they weren't any better than "Made in Y" (China, Philippine, Nepal, Srilanka).

Even after you put those gory details, if the quality of the "better-morale" products suck, it won't matter much.

I think we all (everyone in this world) know what it takes to make iPhone by now. But we're trained not to care any more.

Good suggestion, but not sure the perception will change much.
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> In America, you cannot wake up workers for an emergency production shift at midnight.

This part is not completely true.

There are no workers in dorms that you can just round up, no. But a supervisor can call up a bunch of people and tell them to report in, or they can ask people to stay for another shift after their first one finishes.

It is by no means impossible for people to work 18 hour shifts in America.
Most people seem to be focusing narrowly on wages and worker conditions, which is not the main point of the article-- even if you take wages out of the equation, China is now much better positioned for production. The whole supply chain is nearby-- vast majority of high-tech electronics are made in asia (Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia etc), everything else in China itself. To make even one component in the US would require shipping it to China for assembly, which would introduce a lead time of weeks, whilst still costing more. There is a lack of mid-level (degree > x> HS) skilled workers (engineers) in the US, many in China. These are bigger problems for US manufacturing than the costs alone (labour costs aren't a huge portion of most manufacturing).
Or alternatively, that there is a very good reason most transactions in life are simple exchanges of funds for goods or services.
This is very true, repeated often by economists, but nobody listens.

It's so ironic this is so often pointed out, since the reality (increasing marginal revenue product of labor) is indicative of something good, not bad.
The biggest problem I have with Zynga is that they do not have any creativity. The games they churn out are just another [insert random noun]'ville or a ripoff of a popular existing game (scrabble, hang man, poker, etc). A video game's shelf life doesn't usually last for more than 12 months, and if they can't come up with any unique new product that can capture the attention of a mass number of users they may be up a certain creek without a paddle.
“Companies once felt an obligation to support American workers, even when it wasn’t the best financial choice,” said Betsey Stevenson, the chief economist at the Labor Department until last September. “That’s disappeared. Profits and efficiency have trumped generosity.”Companies and other economists say that notion is naïve.

Anyone find the Apple position to be the naive one. You can't sell luxury goods to peasants. Every employee at crap wages is one less potential customer.
The realist sees the exhorbitant privilege of paying China paper dollars in return for a shipments of iPhones won't go on forever.
When that happens it will be the American workforce clamouring for sweatshop jobs to put food on the table.
Just sayin'.
Any large community is going to accumulate some unfortunate people. These people then stand out because they tend to be loud and annoying. Additionally, people are apparently more likely to criticize something free!

So I agree entirely that the best option is ignoring them. If you're a really nice person--and some are--then you would ignore the tone of a reasonable request and do it anyhow. Now, you don't have to, but that's the beauty of open source: freedom. You never have to do anything.

I suspect that this post is the result of a little bit of undeserved, subconscious guilt. I know that when I feel guilty despite clearly being right, I become defensive; I could certainly imagine a similar reaction here. Or it could be something else entirely.
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>It sucks that things seem to work that way, but it looks like China is moving in the right direction here, not the wrong direction. At some point (as was the case in all the countries I mentioned) they will demand and receive there rights. There is evidence of this happening in China already.

Correct. There are many incidents in southern China (e.g. Guandong, wenzhou, and other cities with a large factory presence) where workers have gone on strikes to protest for fairer wages and better benefits.

Also, I read a NY times articles (can't recall the link off the top of my head) where Chinese factories were competing against each other for qualified workers. As a result, workers were given higher salaries and better benefits.
While I think he has all rights to feel insulted by an individual, I think holding the whole community responsible for that individual and threatening to use the site for damaging the reputation of the Scala community as a whole is a bit too much.
The less he is involved in the scalar community the better. Yes he is right no one has any inherent right to his work or his infrastructure. however he treats the site like his gift to us simple mortals. Here is why people are upset ,because that was a maven host for a bunch of scalar software and instead of transitioning it to a new owner he said no its mine now I paid for it find your own domain, ohh and by the way rewrite all your code and documentation and tutorials to point to another site because I want to be paid for the community others created around my hardware and domain name.

Again he has every right to do what he is doing its his stuff , but its still a very disrespectful way he went about doing it.
> Many more people work for Apple’s contractors: an additional 700,000 people engineer, build and assemble iPads, iPhones and Apple’s other products.

I wonder, if Apple attempted to work most of those jobs in a western system, how many total jobs would there be? I'd have to think less.

As bad as this may seem, I see this sort of globalization as a good thing, because the total overall number of jobs is probably higher. (A job, meaning a steady paycheck, and not rural poverty.)

I might have read this too recently, which might be clouding my judgement: http://gmj.gallup.com/content/149144/coming-jobs-war.aspx

In the end, more jobs = fewer serious problems. I'd have to think, though, that you'd need to take care that you don't lose job counts. Western countries probably need to worry about that a bit more. I don't see how it can be done without more education and training.
> trying to delete the source on the internet seems petty and completely unnecessary

One of the beauties of nearly all forms of free stuff is that the source is free. If users are actively maintaining it, they have their own repositories and forks. Even pure consumers will have their own copies of the source. I will not disparage the motives of people who give me free stuff and then decide for themselves how they wish to discontinue giving me free stuff, but I will say that removing the source ought to be an inconvenience at worst, and of no great consequence in most cases.

See also: “Ideas are forever”

http://raganwald.posterous.com/ideas-are-forever

p.s. I hope you realized that my tongue was firmly in cheek and were responding in kind, not suggesting that David Pollock is petty and rude :-)
A record of publishing in prestigious journals (many of which are run by the major publishers) is generally good for tenure review and grant proposals. Starting a new publication is challenging because you have to attract the best quality work in order to gain prestige.

The current publishing model is a frequent topic of conversation among my colleagues. We share and discuss papers (formerly on Google Reader, now using substitutes like G+) from many sources. I would like to see http://arXiv.org acquire a public review process.
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Nah. That's the price you pay to make Apple move their factories from the US to China. If not, Apple will make their plants in the US.

As some has mentioned, it's the price you pay for growth when you are poor. I have been there, and done that. Still not rich, but situation improved. I couldn't do it otherwise, and I'm happy I did it and moved forward.
If you're building glass, or gaskets, or tiny screws, or LCDs, you want your factory to be in China next to the iPhone factory so the parts can arrive as quickly as possible. If you're building iOS, you can just upload it to the factory from California with comparable delay.
Off the top of my head, everything in the US and countries with strong labor/environmental laws gets a US certified "cruelty free" sticker with little checkboxes under it that state that no child labor, etc. was used. No one else gets to have a label unless they pay to have their entire supply chain certified on a yearly basis.

The absence of a label will be taken as the product did in fact use child labor, unsafe work environments, etc. just like the lack of an organic label is taken to mean that the farm uses pesticides when in fact, it could just be they couldn't afford certification.
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How about capping the donations? I really don't like how a few entities/persons can have such a dramatic impact on elections because of how much they donate to that politician.

The vote is equal in a democracy, but donations aren't, and in a way donations are like a parallel vote, which huge discrepancies between each donation. Obviously the politician will listen to his biggest donors first, even if 10,000 of his normal supporters want the opposite thing.
Having worked at Microsoft, I saw several PMs attempt to reimagine email over 4 years there--eventually all the radical changes get cut time and time again. MS employees might as well just submit kickstarter projects-- get outside funding and maybe even reintegrate into MS products :)
>In China, it can be argued that this represents progress over the alternative, which would likely be rural poverty. The alternative might be 16-hour days, without anything resembling a dorm.

Well said. I would highly suggest that people watch the documentary "the last train home" (available on Netflix streaming), where it shows you the mentality of migrant workers who leave rural China for factory jobs in urban China.
I find it baffling that the academics who peer review journals aren't well compensated monetarily for their efforts. Peer review is the only value added to the journals, especially with websites like Arxiv around. As I understand it, academics sign up to be peer reviewers because it adds prestige to their carriers.

Two things need to happen to change academic publishing:
1. Being a peer reviewer for a corrupt journal needs to be viewed not as a feather in an academics cap, but as a contribution to a corrupt system. Basically reviewing Elsevier journals should hurt your carrier not help it.
2. A new system of publishing needs to arise based on well-compensated (and hopefully more effective) peer review and cheap access.

Start-ups can address #2, but you will be dependent on high profile academics like Gower constantly speaking out against the old system.
What happened to the Visa Personal Payments reply to this? It seemed like a pretty big deal.
In other news, paint dries if you let it sit. We're still on the roadmap to convergence between the cell networks and wifi, right?
Yeah... I'm in Canada and am not-so-patiently waiting.
These are middle class jobs, not some sucky jobs. You are too comfortable where you are, hence you don't see other people's plight.

Try to build a factory in the US. By the time all the environmental reviews and other regulations are observed, and law suits from Sierra Club and others are cleared, there is simply no way to build the factory! Hence no one builds them, hence ...a current Apple executive said. “The U.S. has stopped producing people with the skills we need.”
Okay, so where's the Reddit/Digg for scientific research papers and articles? There could be some sort of "dual voting system" where against each article two vote counts are maintained -- one set of votes by the editorial team ("peer review") and the other set of votes by the community at large.

The editorial team could be selected through a semi-democratic process, if required.

Is it that tough? How many big names in science are required to pull this through? The technology is dead-simple - the main problem is to cross the critical threshold of number of articles submitted and number of editors.
I recently read an article about Foxconn workers threatening mass suicide if conditions don't improve, so it's happening there too.

Eventually they will run out of their supply of peasants fresh off the farm and things will change. Or robots will take over, which happens first is anyone's bet.
Why punish it?

Well, I imagine the logic is simple: a cartel--even if it is not the result of collusion--undermines the market (to some extent). Therefore, it is in the interest of a fair market to disincentivize it in some way. It doesn't have to be punishment per se, but some way of trying to limit cartels would be good.
But then other countries will impose tariffs on US exports, thus reducing demand for US-made products. And since there are more of them than us, it'll hurt us in the long run. For instance, Airbus, over in the free-trade EU, will probably poach all the airplane orders that Boeing could have filled.
Foxconn already mentioned last summer the days are numbered for these jobs. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/01/us-foxconn-robots-...

The only benefit of the workers was their ability to be quickly reconfigured with rudimentary training and strict scheduling. A robotic assembly line with the same just-in-time reconfiguration is superior for obvious reasons.

We've reached peak oil, peak children, and now it's probably time to consider the effects of peak labor.
Using them right now - pretty easy to implement. Sadly, my product has not seen any purchases yet so I can't comment on the whole money part of it yet.
With all due respect to the authors of this, I think this kind of writing is just going to fuel the opposition. Imagine if some journalists get a hold of this and do a piece on it.
In my country we've got a saying: you're a nobody until you've raised a child, built a house and planted a tree.

There's an universal truth that won't go away soon: we are dying, second by second. We feel good when we "create" something meaningful as it prolongs our existence and it gives us happiness as suddenly we aren't breathing the air for nothing.
One of the best - easiest to understand - explanations I have seen anywhere for Gödel's theorem.
This. He reads like a 14 year old boy who's been jilted by his first girlfriend. Do grown mean really need a website for "working through my sadness about opportunities lost" when they change primary programming language?

He's such a source of drama; the Scala community is better off without him.
On the face of it, this guy seems reasonable, just a little harsh. Sounds like he has good reason to be a bit harsh.

Seems to me that what we have here is a techie programmer type who does not entirely get customer relations, and hasn't managed to shape the message that well. Which is pretty much as it should be, the two skill sets don't usually collide. And I suppose why companies that can afford it get customer relation advice or employees. Perhaps some of these groups or what ever, should look for volunteers who do understand PR. Maybe they would be looking to bring this open source spirit out side of tech related areas.
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I was asking why they're using that term despite this having nothing to do with computational complexity.

Looking it up this is apparently also a recognized use of the term and so my question was a bit dumb.
I'm surprised that no new projects have popped up, or old ones revived. This seems like one logical solution to SOPA like laws.
Most languages can help you avoid using the wrong one through the use of variable names.

The problems you might run into are more (for example) using the wrong algorithm for calculating gravity, adjusting the position of one planet before using it to evaluate its impacts on other planets, failing in collision detection etc.

I don't see anything in Haskell that would prevent me from doing any of those.
I didn't mean to imply either of you were petty or rude. Rather, I think I'm just reacting to the prevalent idea around here that it's okay to be a bit of a jerk if somebody else is a jerk first. And while I guess it is okay, I think it is distinctly sub-optimal.
It's even exactly the sort of things related in Marx' Capital, and the very reason for the creation of Communism as an ideology.
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They say the iPhone would be expensive...
If they were to tell the truth they would said: our profit margin won't be so high.
I know plenty of factories in the US. They're robotic. The US churns more product out now than it ever has, but it employs fewer and fewer people to do it. These are the productivity gains from 40 years of computerized automation taking its toll on the American worker. It's not a skills problem, it's much worse. If it's a skills problem the only solution is for humans to acquire the skill of working 24/7 performing repetitive tasks with a predictable maintenance schedule.
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It could also be a specific political reason to target somebody. Perhaps he did not do much on his own, but he represents the foreign internet, which Iran wants to remove from their country. They might just want to start scaring their populace regarding the internet before replacing it with a country-wide network.
I would have been more interested in reading "How I made $100,000 by trying".
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The main problem here is not the media giving credit to Google or Wikipedia for what happened with those bills.
Not even us not acknowledging our own results.

How many times is Wikipedia going to blackout to raise awareness about bad legislation?
How many times is Google going to post a message in its homepage, about a political matter, instead of just negotiating a beneficial exit for them?

The main problem is a vast majority of us, the people, not caring about what happens at any level of out political structures.

We all know that corporations pay big checks to politicians, just to make them present and pass their bills. We all know that money buys friends. And BIG money, buys BIG friends.

SOPA and PIPA may have been delayed. Even stopped. But without trying to go further, without trying to change this corrupted system, it's just a matter of time to see again and again and again our rights to be stamped and stolen from us.

Everything is useless if eat from the bread of complacency and drink from the glass of auto-satisfaction. If we go to bed thinking "we've done it", instead of "we have a lot of things to do".

Let's nos stop, let's not forget.
This is well intentioned but possibly aimed at the wrong target - the publishing part is not where things are locked down in scientific publishing, it's the indexing part.

Roughly, as I understand it, a researcher's annual performance review is based on the number of papers accepted by the "right" journals, and in turn what determines the "right" journals is their standing with the big science citation indexes such as ISI and Scopus.
Agreed and there is a solution here: the United States needs to stop being hypocritical about workers rights by maintaining dual standards for US and foreign based workers. There needs to be an import BAN on products created with slave labor and/or destructive environmental practices, period. We need to start outlaw this practice, and start prosecuting executives who outsource their production to countries where workers are slaves and the environment is being trashed. We are the biggest market by FAR and taking this step would be tantamount to the British Empire's banning of slavery during its heyday.

Instead of a race to the bottom, this step would start a race to the top. Companies that want to sell products into the world's largest consumer market would need to produce products ethically, otherwise they'd forfeit a HUGE amount of sales. This would have the added benefit of helping US workers who work under far more ethical labor and environmental standards become competitive.

I challenge anyone to argue FOR slave labor and destroying the environment just so they can buy a new model smartphone every year. We overconsumer consumer gadgets anyway.
If you don't have factories, even robotic ones, you don't have engineers, middle management, suppliers, distributors, etc etc.

And these are not sucky jobs.
It could be even simpler than that. If the top people in a field decided to start a new, open, journal, then that's the end for Elsevier.

Why hasn't it happened yet? I assume that Elsevier has a stick to hit the top people with (either a contract, or it's funding them).