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Comment CS is like automobile tech in the '60s (Score 1) 36

A lot of kids will learn about it on their own, but many won't, so a little bit of high school CS training makes sense, so kids at least understand what an operating system is/does, and the same for databases, compilers, HTTP, etc. Not enough so that they could get a job doing it, but just so they've been exposed to concepts and can talk about it in layman's terms.

Submission + - White House Petition to Confer National Landmark Status to Flickr API

somekind writes: Over the past few months Twitter imposed restrictions on the use of its client API, and Facebook shut down the facial recognition API supported the face.com after acquiring the company. Mathew Ingram noted these and other examples (Google starting to charge for high-volume use of Google Maps) as evidence that "open APIs" published by a single vendor can't be trusted by outside developers. Worried about the possibility that Yahoo! might do the same with Flickr, Dave Winer has just launched a petition to Obama asking the President to declare the Flickr API a National Historic Landmark, thus (by Dave's reckoning) legally protected from arbitrary withdrawal or wholesale changes by its corporate masters. As of this post, Dave's petition has gained 24 signees.

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