I second that... upgraded my iPad 1 recently to whatever version of iOS that iTunes recommended. Now, Internet Browsing has now slowed to a crawl with the new browser (same websites, same numbers of open windows/tabs), and the browser crashes more often.

Or that a skilled designer used common, non-unique internal design features for his creations that are related... Like Ikea furniture

Talking about design features, consider the same relative size of the sun and moon (the ring of fire during an eclipse). Crazy coincidence, planetary evolutionary or design feature?

... and therein lies our problem.

XBox None!

... TV has taken over social interaction. Inside and outside the family. Time was when we interacted and learnt social mores and life skills from entities who could respond to us. TV cannot. While I am sure Ralph Nader and similar outliers exist, TV has become what human nature and the bandwidth/cable access monopolies always destined it to be... manipulative and shallow programming, beholden to advertising interests engorged by the unnatural hold it has over our life.

Bread and circuses. We got one, one more to go...

"I completely agree that that is a just and honorable way to act in accordance with the original author's probable intent. But it also amounts to you publicly announcing that you are committing copyright infringement. Without an explicit license you have absolutely ZERO legal right to do *anything* with anyone else's code. As such I hope you're not using such code for anything important."

Did I just commit copyright infringement?

That is quite literally, correct :)

I got an Xbox None

Yet script kiddies should not be allowed to randomly cut/paste kernel code fragments, compile it, and sell the binary as "Linux"?

...sift the wheat from the chaff?

...The Cylon bootstrap process ?

Or the ones that contribute code under those licenses. like me.

No, rather the AMD launch *was* the XBox One announcement

Some developers like liberal copyright licenses too.

You're just a bit too much a programmer, and a tad too sharp an entrepreneur.

Become somewhat more a manager and factor in some 'fat' -- both in the invoices you charge your customers, and in the time you allocate your contractors. Remember, crap happens. If it doesn't, and your contractors manage to deliver bug free code ahead of time, give them a 'performance' or 'quality' bonus (i.e. payment for the full time allocated). Do not chase profit maximisation like big shops do. They have adequate manpower buffers to beat you at your own game.

Alternatively, hire someone skilled --- but don't be cheap. Remember, if you chase cost reduction like the small shops, your employee obtains the hunger (he already has the skills) to beat you at your own game.