In other words, they realize that the scale it tipped and new developers are questioning the value of education in .NET so Microsoft did the only thing they could to keep their domain-specific knowledge relevant: allow it to target Linux, iOS, and Android in the only reasonable way. Had .NET kept targeting Windows desktops and servers only, their base language would have been starved for developers in a few years.

I look at the FCC.
If everyone's home wifi equipment was a mesh networking system that interfaced with 10s of neighbors, then every side of that neighborhood would be a connection. This would all connect to "Central" City-based hardlines for faster routes around the world (because this most-resembles the roadway system, which is paid-for similarly).

The result:
- Cheaper prices (just the cost of peering with other cities).
- Faster Peering/Torrenting: Someone in-town has the file? Then it's just a network copy.
Competition would connect you to more fast-routes, not exclusive ones. Your choice to peer those are up to you (but would be the default for hardware).

Open-Source software has a number of irreconcilable differences from closed-source software that makes comparison tricky:
  - Ownership
  - Rejection of low-quality code
  - No deadlines

A similarity:
There are more open-source libraries on GitHub in Javascript than any other language, and quite a bit of consumption of them. Most are built & maintained by one person. Lots of components are used to build an advanced website, but each is fairly replaceable.

My closed-source employer follows a similar process with each developer exclusively maintaining one or more tiny programs. Some of those were designed poorly to meet a schedule (by people who were let go). Now others (me) are creating replacement programs. Since each program does effectively very little, and it's well-documented for integration purposes, it's quite easy to replace entire programs outright that contain trouble. This gives us the same language freedom that open-source enjoys.
Further, it's a revolving door. Any program that's sufficiently devoid of "company secrets" is free to be open-sourced. This makes the company "dev-community focused" which helps hiring & retention.

So what you're saying is we found a neutrino reflector?

I thought manufacturers would use 3D printing to create custom tooling. It may not be as reliable, but would have cheaper replacement cost.

+1

Good point: It's a multi-step thing.
- Entrepreneurs get cheap moon rocks
- Build Moon infrastructure
- Use somebody's plan to make it worth it.

This "perfect corruption" cannot be litigated against. It simply must rot organizations out of existence, which it will when nobody can speak to each other, nobody is capable of doing the work assigned, and cleaning-up the mess made becomes 10x multiples or more vs the money saved.

All the while, honest companies with good interview practices simply take over when their big, old competitors fail to progress or vanish entirely.

In the news: 100,000 IBM layoffs last month.

This is why small & medium businesses are the future, so you don't have one honest department & one broken department but instead have a successful company and a failing company.

Oh look, my old sig already held the answer:

Agreed! Having girls makes this trickier, but I plan to take them to nude beaches, discuss the factors involved with Torrenting movies, get them drunk before College, show them rehab (anti-drug), poverty (work ethic), deviancy (safety), etc. Want to inoculate your kids against some trouble and can't think of how? Google it!
Kids outlive parents. So Parents, expose your kids to all the worldly matters & discuss them, because one day you'll kick off and then what?

So we are lamenting not having enough Ozone (the chemical)? Then how about we produce some & release it. The sky then stays blue.

But if that's still not enough, then find "dark places" on Earth and coat with something white and permanent (Limestone).
Just requiring a formula change for Asphalt roadwork would go a long way here.

When NodeJS (Which Google doesn't care about enough to maintain) and Java (which Oracle doesn't care about enough to maintain) battle for the server, Go will win.

Do you hold yourself personally responsible for the actions of a handful of inaccessible weirdos in your country?
Until they succeed in causing trouble, why bother?

The American people don't want this.
The music corporations are entirely non-US companies.
Copyrights are not beneficial to Search or Share Internet industries.
The only remaining beneficiary is the movie industry, a relatively small group of people.

Where are all these expert systems that can be queried in natural language? I would imagine that with enough options, one could "dogpile" their way to a best answer.

Use Chrome web speach api and DIY. It does the voice io and you process the result first through a common search (Google, etc) then through your custom endpoint.