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   by nonymous-- 12y ago

   You keep touting brain surgery as if it's the yard stick by which all other endeavors (including pure mathematics and astrophysics) should be measured for difficulty and cognitive ability required--it isn't. The brain may be immen
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   by nonymous-- 12y ago

   http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/24/valley-heavyweight-vinod-k... http://www.businessinsider.com/ibms-watson-may-soon-be-the-b...
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   by nonymous-- 12y ago

   Perhaps I should have been more specific. I was referring in that sentence to Contributor License Agreements (CLAs), specifically the most egregious ones, such as Canonical's CLA that not only transfers your copyright to Canonical but
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   by nonymous-- 12y ago

   Thanks. I wasn't really advocating unionization or really anything in particular, just marveling at how stunningly clueless (or, if you prefer, generous and egalitarian) programmers can be. The amount of money we collectively leave on
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   by nonymous-- 12y ago

   For people supposedly so intelligent, programmers often appear quite foolish, at least when compared with other professionals. They give away enormous quantities of their labor for free through open source (some even going so far as to sign