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>The first thing that happens, for example, when a law is passed that no one shall be paid less than $106 for a forty-hour week is that no one who is not worth $106 a week to an employer will be employed at all. You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering.

Ok, I can't let logic like that slide by. I'll just list off why it is totally junk reasoning:

- Assumes that worker is getting 'what he is worth to an employer' currently. This would assume that the worker and the employer are on an equal footing, both in power (workers can be coerced and intimidated into lower wages), and intellect (workers can be tricked and bamboozled), and in information (workers know less about the going rates for labor than an employer, if only because employers have lots of employees, but an employee has only one employer usually).
- Assumes the worker is optimally employed to maximize earnings. Lots of people work in fields because they fell into that sort of work, and learning a new language or new skills is hard or unnatural to them. Being fired from such a low paying job may make developing other skills a necessity. Think of the guy working at McDonald's who could be trained to be a lineman for the electric company or a truck driver, or the truck driver who could (if he had more ambition, and was willing to give up an income for a few months to go to trade school) be a mechanic on jet engines.
- If everyone is held to the same minimum wage, everyone's costs, therefore the price they charge, goes up. Charging more money lets them afford the more expensive workers.
- If workers get more expensive, long term investments in mechanization become more attractive. This lowers costs in the long run, and creates jobs that pay more than the original menial job. All that extra money everyone has because the price of everything is so low due to mechanization means they have plenty of money to spend on luxuries they would never have previously considered, this is called 'Starbucks' and employs lots of people.
- Even if the worker does lose his job, modern unemployment insurance schemes will make that relatively painless to the old 'free market' system of going to debtors prison or indentured servitude.

A-priori economic arguments are bullshit. It is perfectly possible to prove convincingly that in a system without a government private security firms would enforce law and order. We can be convinced of this because we don't know all the reasons this fails in practice, due to our imperfect understanding of the world. The fact that in every single instance that there has been a lack of a functional police force for more than a few hours things go totally batshit insane should render any such 'convincing' argument totally absurd.
I'd recommend everyone read up on "blood diamonds" or "conflict diamonds" as well as the diamond market in general before ever purchasing a diamond for jewelry.

I'm guessing most hackers aren't diamond buyers. I recommend everyone read this before buying any computers or electronic gadgets: http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=863
I would hardly call that "acting like twits".

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. --Alan Kay

While MicroSoft expends all of their resources testing their OS with every possible piece of hardware and its associated drivers, Apple gets to focus on making great products. They don't have to wait on the hardware manufacturers to innovate, and they don't have to support their shoddy hardware and drivers. They also don't have to take the blame when it doesn't work. MicroSoft does (earned or not).
They would only be "forced" if Microsoft recognized revenue potential in WINE users, then it's a business decision.
Tom didn't say anything about the availability of support options. It's very simple. If I buy something, I know that the vendor is interested in making me happy to some (sometimes minor) degree. If I pick up code that someone dropped on github I cannot make that assumption.

So the two models default to different basic assumptions and that has nothing to do with support contracts being available or not.
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Thanks for taking that bullet for the rest of us. Why this stuff has to be in video form defies my understanding.
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The author of that article actually wrote essentially a book on the matter, which is available online for free: http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/prologue.htm
Wow, and this is stated explicitly? Seems like cutting off the nose to spite the face. I guess ideology is more important than code quality to the FSF. They have every right to do it, of course, but as an outsider it seems counter-productive
The good:
Obviously the more Ides the better and displays how open Android is.

The bad:
Is this the beginning of the fragmentation in the Android space? Probably not...
Google indexes the internet in near real time. Pay Google to monitor for copyright infringement for you.

Regardless, I don't think the random copies are that big of a deal. The only time something material is lost is when a copy gets posted to reddit or digg instead of the original. Few people are going to come across random copies of articles in obscure corners of the internet without direction.
When I compiled Ruby 1.8.6 with Intel C, it ran benchmarks 5-10% faster than when I compiled with GCC.
And to think I could have written software for these people if I hadn't, in a fit of insanity, chosen a market full of gainfully employed professionals who are happy to pay for things which help them do their jobs faster and better.
The analogy is broken: SSN is a credential. USB vendor IDs are not.
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I guess one problem is that expecations of users of OSS are not just a thing between the developer of a particular piece of software and its users. The open source movement has been busy creating expectations of OSS being better supported, higher quality software with a commercial business model.

All the big corporations supporting open source by making code available also change the perception that open source is some kind of grass roots non-commercial thing. The single developer of some open source library may in fact be on the payroll of some BigCorp playing some kind of advocacy role for which he is being paid a salary.

You don't know unless you dig deeper and some people don't dig deeper. They just work on the basis of general assumptions formed by the collective advocacy effort of the open source movement as a whole.

Of course that doesn't mean an individual developer has to honor that collective promise. I do understand that guy's rant. I'm just trying to explain how such misguided expectations can arise.

The conclusion, for me, is this: Don't use open source software unless you don't need it and could build it yourself, unless you know why the developer has a vested interest in making you, the user, happy.
More people have bricked iPhones because of Apple's own actions (iPhone activation DRM) than any interoperability attempts.
How is this different from eclipse+ADT?
@jodrellblank,
I guess mrlebowski made those points(expensive, not work with anything else etc) not to claim they are intrinsically bad (which point you seem to be addressing) but as a contrast to how Apple used to work when it was founded.

In other words, Apple's present behavior may be justifiable(like you say) and a change from how it used to work in the past (mrlebowski's point).
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This is one of the best comments on economics I've seen here - thanks!
Right... this might have something to do with it:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/news-magazines

They're doing a good job at grooming their audience, but I think all that will happen is that they'll accelerate their own downfall.

I'm really sorry for newsweek and all those other publications that are going to die because some of them really have something to contribute but their model has been solidly disrupted, people no longer want to pay for content so you either find a way to accommodate that or you will have to die out. This is not necessarily a good thing but it is inevitable.
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Given issues like this, and how talented the kernel guys are ... why haven't they written a C compiler? (Not meant to rant; serious question -- we wrote silly C compilers for class; seems like programmers with real talent should be able to write real, industry strength C compilers, especially if it only needs to support C, and not C++/Java/ObjC/...)
Actually, clang has nothing to do with gcc. LLVM's gcc frontend is called llvm-gcc ( http://llvm.org/cmds/llvmgcc.html ) which was dropped for being too high maintenance or something of the sort.

Clang is still in the beggining, IIRC.
I think (but this is just a guess) that a production multi-platform c compiler is as hard as a kernel to get right (or at least in the same order of magnited) and fast enough to be useful, so I think it's more of a "there is no need for NIH" attitude.
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It's an intriguing idea to have a compiler designed for kernel code, and it has been proposed before: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2009-04/msg1...
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couldn't you apply the same logic to apple? they sure aren't a cell phone company, but they're making money hand over fist entering that market..
The 'price limit' phrase reminded me of the traditional fish selling method called 'lota' in my corner of Europe.

It goes like this: the fishing boats come in, crates of fresh fish are brought to a market area where buyers await. For each crate, the announcer starts with a high price (say 100) and counts rapidly down ("99, 98, 97 ...") until one of the buyers shouts out "Soo" to buy the crate at that price.

Not as amusing as bidding up an auction, but this seems a time-efficient method for finding the buyer's price limit - after all, the fish is not getting any fresher sitting there ...
I thought the story was going to be about the Federation Against Software Theft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_Against_Software_The...
Yes, he got a little carried away in that article. I didn't really like it either. But besides his own conjecture, without which there wouldn't be much left of an article, did he say anything that's not true?

What were the earlier straws, by the way? If you just dig around a bit, I'm sure you'll find quite a few really enjoyable and insightful articles on the site.

To twist that into "look how bad windows 7 is gonna be lol" is obnoxious and disingenuous.

I thought he was just pointing out how MS is worried, and wants to increase W7's adoption by giving the RC away. There's also been some speculation about whether it's actually the finished W7 just dubbed an RC because giving away the finished product would look far too desperate.

Unfortunately, I've seen a lot of excitement over W7, so it looks like MS will have a successful Windows on their hands again.
Why is it so inaccurate? "Coltan is a metal that conducts heat unusually brilliantly." compare to wikipedia: "Coltan is the colloquial African name for columbite - tantalite, a metallic ore from which the elements niobium and tantalum are extracted." Also in wikipedia: "The United States Geological Survey reports in its 2006 yearbook that the Democratic Republic of the Congo produces a little less than 1% of the world's tantalum." - so this implying of guilt for everyone buying electronics is rather silly.

He trades truth for rhetorics undermining all the sympathy I might have.
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There's always time lag for this kind of thing. In English, there are even multiple borrowings of the same French word into English with different spellings.

This phenomenon exists in Chinese as well. How for, example, do you say UK in Chinese ;)?
God, you're right.

I went into writing that post fully intending to make the point that "producing work" for e.g. the glazier is only useful AT ALL if the glazier isn't already working as much as he wants; moreover, even in such a special circumstance, obviously no additional wealth is created by the window breaking and the glazier getting paid to fix it. But in the special circumstance of the glazier working less than he wants before he gets the job and then getting paid to do the job by a rich guy, something good still happens -- wealth is distributed to the glazier via a mechanism that is voluntary for all parties involved. This is vital. Even in the best of cases, "creating work" through the destruction and replacement of wealth amounts to charity and nothing more. But "forced charity" of this sort can be very good for an economy on the whole in certain circumstances. Like in a depression.

Anyway, I must've been really out of it; I usually don't get wrapped up in the details of making a point to such an extent that I forget the point that I'm trying to make. My entire post was pretty stupid, except for the part where I said that this book is blinded by its own biases (which I stand by). Sorry about that.

PS: I'm still not in a great state of mind (I'm exhausted but experiencing mild insomnia), so I make no guarantees about the quality of the post, either.
Couchsurfing has a convention that if you're going to surf you should really host as well, unless there's a good reason why not. It's not enforced in any way, but there's definitely an expectation from many hosts that you will at least fill out a half-decent profile and try to build up some decent recommendations from people in your home town by attending a few social events or whatever. In other words, if you haven't hosted a few people, or otherwise gotten at least a couple of recommendation (and taken some time to flesh out your profile to make yourself seem at least a little interesting), a lot of hosts won't take you.

CS is fantastic, but it's not simply about free accommodation: to get the most out of it you need to put in quite a bit of effort too (which is as it should be).

Airbnb seems to be for people who don't really want to go that route.
It's hard to get people to be active, and 'contributing' by talking instead of by coding is very tempting.

Wikipedia is also suffering of this to some extent, there are plenty of pages where the 'talk' section is several times the size of the article, with the endless splitting of hairs about minor syntactical or semantical details.

Still, there are community projects where IRC has been a very successful community tool, some of them wouldn't ever have gotten off the ground without it.

Overall I think the benefits outweigh the downsides, but having a good set of moderators in a channel I think is the key difference to where it worked and where it became a distraction.
Does open-sourcing your product automatically destroy your business model?
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As far as I know llvm-gcc has not been dropped. On Mac OS X it is even installed alongside gcc when you install the developer tools.

Clang is making good progress. From http://clang.llvm.org/index.html:
Clang is considered to be a production quality C and Objective-C compiler when targetting X86-32 and X86-64
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All those years I glorified that hacker and ten years later it all crumbles to dust. I never knew about this, wish I did.
Yet, all the world is not x86.
GCC 4.5 adds support for plugins that allow this sort of thing. Mozilla have been making use of it for quite a while already: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Dehydra
There was a time when icc was really ahead of gcc on Intel processors.

When I worked in the chemistry department of my university, we did some compiler benchmarks on Pentium 4's, AMD Athlons and even some Alphas (gcc vs. compaq compiler in this case). We did this at a time where icc was being touted as best than sliced bread, but found out that while it mostly outperformed gcc on the Pentiums, it did so by a small margin. On the Athlons gcc was faster across the board. On the Alphas, gcc was also better (except on fortran code, where compaq compiler was way better).

And this was gcc 3.x. Since then gcc has evolved quite a bit, and I wouln't be surprised to see it take the performance crown everywhere if I repeated these benchmarks today.
Nothing in the original argument of the bad effects of minimum wage required that an employee be paid their true worth. The comment you first quote merely presumes that an employer will not pay MORE than what an employee is worth, and all of your "the employer has more information and power" arguing is supporting, not refuting, the original claim.
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Apple is a hardware company, their software and web services are to complement the hardware, not their main revenue stream.

Seeing as they already did (portable) computers, even has done handhelds in the past (newton), they did MP3 players, have several things related to wireless technology (AirTunes, Apple TV), their version of a cell phone was a natural evolution of their product offerings.
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I immediately noticed that too and I'm wondering, why insist on doing CGI characters instead of the plain old green screen? The CGI characters fit more seamlessly into the scene, yes, but I find mocuh more easy to ignore the small imperfections of green screen compositing than the weird movements of CGI characters.
the people who espouse economic equality are unaware of the outcomes of their actions. the whole point of being an economist is to draw people's attention to the non-obvious impact of various decisions about resource allocation.

the average person: A causes B! we want more of B so let's increase A!

economist: A and B are both side effects of C, pumping resources into A will not produce the desired effect.

I agree that economists should avoid making value judgments as much as possible so that people will listen to them. Robin Hanson recently debated Brian Caplan on exactly this point and made a very convincing case that economists should focus on the efficiency of outcomes.
And I thought it was about Fast Search and Transfer AS from Norway. Apparently they were bought by Microsoft in 2008 to become their Enterprise Search department.
Apple gets to focus on making great products. They don't have to wait on the hardware manufacturers to innovate, and they don't have to support their shoddy hardware and drivers.

Not wanting to test your OS with a myriad of different hardware is one thing. Stopping VMWare from supporting it as a guest OS is another. There's no technical reason that I shouldn't be able to run OSX on top of VMWare (I know there's hacks to get it to work, but it's slow as molasses).

Apple is more than happy to allow VMWare to develop and sell Fusion so I can run Windows on top of Apple hardware. How is it that they don't allow me to run OSX on top of my Windows box?
Well, take a look from Apple's perspective. They spent time and money developing a platform for their iPods. Why would they want to allow their free (for consumers) music platform to seamlessly work with a direct competitor's product?

So Apple gets to support iTunes and polish it for years and then Palm gets to leech off their hard work and use it for free without repercussion?

I think by disabling the Pre they're saying to Palm, "Hey, Palm, why don't you go spend your own millions of dollars and build your own damn app." When you look at it that way I can't really fault them.

What I suspect will happen is that Apple and Palm will battle back and forth for a few revisions over a few months and then Palm will cave and throw some money at Apple (or something else they want) and we'll hear about some sort of partnership and suddenly hey, look, the Pre will be supported officially. Either that or Palm will give up and make their own music uploader.
the cost of living is higher partially because of the higher minimum wage laws. the market charges whatever the consumer is willing to pay. when the consumer makes more money expect to see a gradual increase in the prices of products popular with those consumers.
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What's odd is that animating CGI characters realistically is a solved problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_capture
the idea of politicians as people who learn about all the impacts and nuances of legislation so we don't have to has been proven false for thousands of years. the greeks knew that this representative democracy idea was crap. for an example of a functioning government please see the Venetian Republic (the birth place of proto-capitalism).
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My perspective is: I do not have Windows on any of my computers (yes, that was, of course, my choice.)

So your solution doesn't work.

My solution is to not upgrade the OS on my generation 1 iPod Touch and use gtkpod. Not very sustainable in the long run, but almost acceptable.