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Wow I feel trolled by the author. Come on Google shaped the web as we know today with PageRank and AdWords, isn't it totally unfair to put things in that way? Also the author confuses search with discovery just to prove his point.

I agree it feels dumb to surf the web they we do know. But this is a case of less is more. We can think of more complex solutions but those won't solve what our current solution solves for most of the people.

Surely there is a next big thing waiting to happen regarding content discovery, the last one I saw that attempts that is Prismatic, but there is a long road to even become a plausible alternative to what we do in our current search engines.
Not really. There's less than 100 licenses out there, and most projects use a subset of around 10 of them.
Who will implement a DCPU16 in Conway's game of life?

Seriously though, the fact that we're able to ask questions like this is a breath of fresh air... as a market, Notch has done a hell of a job appealing to us.
I am chinese and none of these sites made any sense to me. looks like anons just hacked a bunch of spam sites, low profile and irrelevant.
Are they using Mac OS Software RAID for this?
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you could use "keep it free" if "copyleft" is not descriptive enough, though just the name of a license would work best.
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This is part of it, but there are other important factors at play here. In China, the contractors of Apple don't have to adhere to US labor and environmental laws. These are huge factors in decision to outsource production to China.
The unnecessary editorializing is annoying. The point, which I agree with, could have been made without the self-centered snipes at licenses you happen to dislike.
>>The basic reason is that there is plenty of manufacturing all over the Midwest that could easily produce the entire Apple supply chain.

Do you have a source for that? Foxconn has greater than 1 million employees. I don't think there is any company with a labor force of that scale in the US, or anywhere else in the world. And, per the article at the top of this thread, the bigger issue is the supply chain. If iPhones were made in the Midwest, they would still be importing glass, simple hardware, and thousands of other parts that are still made in China.
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Is this a good analogy to make?

I was thinking that feature bloat is a consequence of this sort of thing happening (applications start out missing features, eventually features start getting added, and they keep getting added to the point where users don't want them anymore), but I'm not certain the mechanics leading up to feature bloat are the identical to what happens in the beer game.
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Huh, didn't realize that. Thanks!
I don't have numbers to back this up, but I think in general it would be a good thing for America as a whole, and for the American middle class in particular, if we began to move back toward being a country of "makers" rather than a country of "service providers."

From the data I've seen from a few Google searches, U.S. industrial manufacturing output keeps going up (with hiccups in recessions), but employment in manufacturing is going down due to increases in efficiency and automation.

Also, I think it's weird to put this dividing line between service providers and makers. I design and program websites for a living, which most people would call a service. But couldn't you also say that I "manufacture" websites? A cook at McDonald's manufactures burgers. A writer a newspaper manufactures articles.
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I think GP is drawing an inferred analogy in the software development process, using the supply chain to explain the relationship among all the parties involved.
I too was thinking exactly this. I watched the crypto walkthrough video on the kickstarter page and though what was shown looked solid, it didn't mention this. Would it turn into a client-side JS-war between the extension and the host (FB, etc)? It would be nice if someone involved in the project could mention this and why it's not a problem. Thanks! Edit: clarified.
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I received my PhD (Physics) in 1999 and went directly to industry. At that time I saw industry as a well paid post doc. My intention was to work a few years and then seek an academic position.

In 2001 I had an offer from a top engineering school in Canada to join their faculty. And I said no.

Academia attracted me with the promise of intellectual freedom -- the ability to work on what ever problems I wanted to. This is a lie. To be successful in Academia, one needs to pick a narrow field and become the biggest expert in the smallest space. Neils Bohr described this as knowing more and more about less an less until you know absolutely everything about nothing.

In Industry I can move around to whatever problems fascinate me most. I've worked in Optical Componetns, designing video games, and now what I call computational sociology on social networks. My pattern has been to work in a field of about five years until I've built up the expertise I desire to have, then move on to a completely different field.

For those recently dropping out of academia or considering dropping out, you know in your heart it is the right choice. Don't worry about what people in that little club think. A decade from now they will be looking at you. With envy because you are free to work on the most exciting and interesting problems while they are stuck in the same shrinking field for the last ten years.
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But what is the cause and what is the effect? The supply chain latency in the US is so high because over the last 3-4 decades we've moved from a producer to a consumer. It's because we don't manufacture stuff anymore that this latency is an issue.
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Yeah, generally if you know where the money originally came from (great granddad's widget factory) it's not old money.
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That is not quite correct. You cannot patent something that precludes the use of a mathematical concept but you can patent a method for applying a mathematical concept. For example, you cannot patent "sorting" but you can patent a "bubble sort algorithm" because the latter is one of an infinite number of methods in which the mathematical concept of sorting can be implemented. The RSA patent did not prevent people from using public key cryptography (either in theory or in practice), only one particular algorithm for implementing such a concept.

Algorithm patents are allowed in most countries, contrary to popular belief; when most people talk about "software patents" they are actually talking about business process patents which rarely exist outside the US. Actual algorithms are recognized as a direct abstraction of electronic circuit designs and electronic circuit designs are widely recognized as patentable subject matter.

(Any consistent application of an "algorithms are mathematics" argument would exclude all currently patentable subject matter, for better or worse. I do not have a strong opinion one way or the other but it is worth pointing out because this fact is lost in many discussions of patents.)
So what if there's an uproar? Other license writers could also want to be treated specially.

This is just about a general filter, into "proprietary", "do whatever you want to", and "restrictive" open source licenses; for developers when they choose which projects on GitHub might be a good fit for their needs.

If you read the GPL it puts a lot of restrictions on what you can do as a developer. So do other licenses (for example licenses that allow you to use the source in open source projects but require some form of payment when used for commercial products).
You're against the GPL, but you're okay with people writing their own new licenses?
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It's likely that Oracle Windows Java 7.0 Enterprise Server has an ODBC driver. So DrRacket is all set:

http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/ryanc/db.plt/1/...
Okay, so let's start simple:
Where does LGPL fit into these two?
(LGPL is in the top 5 licenses, so it's important)

So, vast majority depends on how you look at it.

If you are talking about organized software projects, yes, the vast majority use about 20 licenses (I cut off the count at 90%)

If you are talking about code that is out there and has a license marking, "Other" is the #3 category, and we classify over 1000 licenses. (I hand check a lot of these, and only about 1% are classification errors, not really licensed, or munged).

So as you can see, the story is not great, particularly for people who want to just take pieces of code.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely and completely agree that things should be marked with licenses and give people some idea of what they can do. I'm just saying doing it usefully is not as simple as giving people 2-4 categories and saying "have at it!"

As for the categories we have, our categories are based on what would be required if the source is used in a product shipping outside of Google. The categories have been mentioned publicly before, so i'll mention that they are "notice", "reciprocal", "restricted", and "use by exception only" (IE you can only use it if you talk to us first)
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For even the most generous interpretations of "several", Mac viruses were not merely theoretical several years ago.
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Considering using this combo instead of RaphaelJS on my next project, just for kicks.

Am I the only one that tries to click hand drawn notes like that to see them full size?
> It's a pretty simple CPU

16-bit address and data buses? Hardware multiplier, divider, and barrel shifter? I wouldn't exactly call it simple. The cost to build one out of discrete logic probably approaches the quadruple digits.

Magic-1 (http://www.homebrewcpu.com/) is a 16-bit, microcoded homebrew CPU that took about 4 years to build, and it doesn't have any of the above features.
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I agree.
Sadly, we also run into plenty of cases distributing LICENSE files that don't match file headers, etc.
I tried to implement my own version of such menu here:
http://barabbas.github.com/blog/sandbox/hexmenu/hexmenu.html

It is very Q'n'D and cumbersome but at least it has novelty value.
One obvious solution is for github to autodetect the license if a LICENSE file is present. This will work in most cases, most people just copy&paste one of a small set of licenses.
> Because of the bullwhip effect illustrated by the game, Apple needs to have factories in China because the supply chain is there. We learned in the Beer Game that minute changes have massive ripple effects along the supply chain.

> The U.S. has lost that industrial base and it’s extremely difficult to get it back. It’s not about unions, jobs Americans don’t want - it’s about delay.

Considering that Foxconn is starting to make iPads in Brazil, this article is way oversimplifying things. It's mostly about labor costs and environmental aspects. The iPad is assembled in China, but most of its components are from elsewhere. The CPU is from Texas, a lot of the other chips are from Korea, etc. It could be assembled in the US without supply troubles.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/05/apple-gains-certificatio...
Why on earth would the GPL ruin your day? What's with all the fear mongering?

The only practical difference is you're forced to put up your patches somewhere… which you've probably already done when you hit 'fork' on Github.
Of course it is. The point was to provide some perspective on the cost of taxes, not to put an accounting value on my kids.
Well, I just didn't want to go too far into making the debate about the OP personally rather than just evaluating the merits of his claim. It's possible that Google killed his dog and that his anti-Google argument has merit.
That may insulate factories from fluctuating inventory supply, but it doesn't solve the problem of fast turnaround when changes are needed. If a part needs to be redesigned, the supplier may still have a weeks-long lead time to get the new part shipped, and has the additional problem of obsolete inventory that is now wasting space near the factory.
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Didn't know Apple made a 13 foot Macbook Pro...
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They're not recording any of your activity on those pages (typing, mouse movements, copying, etc) and storing that as well. Mixing in all that usage meta-data is what I'm talking about.
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Don't you think that decades of isolationist Maoism had more influence on the rural poverty in China than US and British protectionism?
Sorry to say that but we cannot trust the weather forecast in simulation for more than 5 days and we trust a forecast for mankind 30 years from now?

I know people like these kind of studies, perhaps it conveys the feeling that "after me there won't be anything" and that we are the last generation but it's simply to complex to model. People have been saying the same things for generation and so far, so good (with some exceptions of course).

I am not saying that it's not going to happen, just that you have to be very careful with prediction such as these, take them as "work of fiction". Also don't forget a possible bias. Apocalyptic vision have always fascinated populations and men around the world but how many have happened?
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GitHub already parses README files of various formats. I wonder how hard it would be to just parse a LICENSE/COPYRIGHT file if it's available. This would make sure the licenses are distributed with the code. If the license file couldn't be parsed, a "Custom License" link to the corresponding license file could be a good general fallback too.
Well, if no solution exists, I am going to patent the business process of finding a solution to homomorphic encryption.

My process largely involves hiring mathematicians and buying lots and lots of coffee.
Therefore ... you'd happily give up your job to someone who needed more? Just to prove a point.
First of all it depends on the app. If it's a public service I personally find that having this constraint of making your app work with JavaScript off leads to a better web architecture. It doesn't break the web and pays off in the long run for whoever might integrate with your app or whatever products might consume it now or in the near future. Graceful degradation is not all about the end-users.

So my advice would be if you're building a JavaScript only app you have to really know what you're doing, because it's very easy to get carried away with it. Keep in mind that you risk making it "incompatible" with the web. When a need arises to be "compatible" you might end up finding yourself building second version of the same app.
It's because we don't manufacture stuff anymore that this latency is an issue.

I love it when people say that. I love it because I work for a company that very much does still make stuff in the US.

We just make more stuff, with fewer people.

We also make stuff in Asia, EU, Mexico. It's hard to stereotype who makes what - but generally sites in NA make the complicated, expensive widgets, Asia make the high volume not-so complicated gear, EU is a mix.
This kind of platform is for now really unique. Basically, existing solutions doesn't provide guided activities, that orchestrate users interactions.

It allows you to focus on a problem or a challenge, for 10min to 1hour, and have a nice creative output of the workshop.

Btw, it's not the silver bullet to improve your creativity, you still need a great facilitator, but many brains are better than one :).
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You're comparing apples to oranges.

The loss of income for 6 months was 1-2% of his lifetime earnings. I strongly doubt that 6 months of taxes will account for >2% of his lifetime earnings.
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I've just bought this book as well to get a deeper understanding of Rails (and also to get a newer book on Rails, most are aged).

While the first chapters are a refreshing take on Rails and easy to understand the book is getting kind of cloudy later when covering more complex topics. Cumbersome explanations followed by wack examples give you a hard time—you cannot easily grasp basic ideas, so you constantly switch between examples and theory but you just don't get it.

Especially, chapter 13 (on Singleton methods) is miserable. Admitting Ruby's Singleton Pattern isn't the easiest thing the book totally failed from here: I read this chapter dozen times until I gave up and just googled better explanations and I am sorry to say that every blog post about the Singleton Pattern did a far, far better job than this book. And from this point I did it with all following chapters—just scanned them briefly and googled better articles for respective subjects. This book was definitely not worth the money but at least I did again some Rails theory with the book as guideline.
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Honestly, I don't know. I'd suppose it depends more on the sort of thing we're talking about than anything. If it's something like "Obtvse", or a fully formed system and you're copying it outwardly, then probably yes.

If it's a ilbrary that fetches RSS feeds as part of a larger system, I'm guessing no.

Of course, it also depends significantly on the author. If it's a public git repository, one assumes that it's something people wish to be forked.

Though I suppose an interesting experiment would be to publicly post closed source code with a closed source license attached as honeypots and sue everyone that forks / modifies your code base.
The first person they mention left an energy company to focus on making a service that helps businesses manage their mobile applications.

I don't know, this doesn't excite me. I would be more interested if the people with the resources focused those resources on improving energy technology.
That's a myth. The US has a huge and growing manufacturing base. We make airplane engines, medical devices, computer chips; all kinds of complex, high-tech manufacturing. We have the highest manufacturing productivity per worker in the world. What we don't make anymore are the kinds of products that require rote assembly tasks, like shoes and clothes and iPads. The upshot is that we have decreasing manufacturing employment even as the manufacturing sector grows rapidly.

Would it surprise you to learn that US manufacturing output looks like this?

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/OUTMS
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What do you think is going to provide more short term profit, move manufacturing back the the US and build X with US workers, or move manufacturing out of China to another cheap country when Chinese labor gets too expensive?

What's gone isn't coming back until it's cheaper to build it in the US. That's what moved it to China in the first place, and that's what will move it from China.
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No reason I am aware of. If it is still like that tomorrow, please get in touch with me and I'll follow it up.
Both: it's a self-reinforcing downward spiral.
I'm curious what we could change legally to make this less an issue. There's a clear conflict of interest between doing a public good by disclosing a vulnerability and not wanting to risk (at worst) the FBI coming after you or (at best) losing clients. I would certainly consider it unethical to know of a vulnerability and not disclose that information publicly, but there are so many hurdles to doing so that I don't blame some people (especially those who are less established) for not doing so.

It almost makes me feel that there should be a law requiring disclosure of vulnerabilities.
What is it about the cycle that is really valuable? Is it more about your productivity and the productivity of the other partners and how you can help the current batch or about having the current batch all going through the cycle together simultaneously?
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I probably wouldn't be happy about it, but yes - if someone can do my job cheaper or better then I should be replaced.
No. "Restrictive" vs. "permissive" captures exactly the relevant information. If I look for some code to include in my project, I don't care if the license is "copyleft" or "copyright" or whatever. I just need to know if including the code puts legal restrictions on my project.

For example, both GPL and CC-NC are "restrictive", but GPL is "copyleft" while CC-NC is not.

Also, "copyleft" would somehow suggest compatibility, but this is not the case: GPL and CC-SA are definitely not compatible, so "restrictive" would also be a good adjective in that case.
This doesn't make any sense. Many of the Swedish companies I saw had sites in English and catered to non-Swedish citizens. The Internet allows you to run a website anywhere and have international customers/users.
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Yeah that’s definitely the right course.

The downside is, of course, that you probably need it at the time you come across it, so time wise I often have to roll my own in these cases. That’s why I hope this would make that more clear.

On that note, we need this for gists as well (maybe even more). Could be on an account-wide basis in my case.
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