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| Authored by: cjk fossman on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 11:44 AM EDT |
The point is that the job of deciding on the
problem you
want to
help with can require many decisions
Exactly.
And that is
why APIs, hard as they may be, are not
creative expression. Ultimately the API
is a functional
output, driven by the problem it is solving. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: mcinsand on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 12:55 PM EDT |
Someone compared an API to a roadmap, which reminds me of something I do with a
piece of equipment under my responsibility at work. It is under a constant
state of revision, with network of controllers managing conditions and data
i/o. I have to work constantly to keep the wiring maps up to day. It's hard,
but copyrightable? Maybe if the maps had some artistic content or even some
original content... maybe if they had some sort of expressive organization. But
the documentation of what wire carries what signal is not expressive or
intrinsically copyrightable. Even if the actual map was protectable, the
information that it fundamentally records is not.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: TemporalBeing on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 03:16 PM EDT |
Great description; don't think I could have said it better.
And for other wondering, this is why software is hard too - you're really only
developing APIs and putting them together to build the final product. To get it
right, it takes the masterful hand of a true engineer.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 06:04 PM EDT |
In a touch of something that's almost some sort of irony,
one of our government ministers is being roundly castigated
because she announced that she was able to deport someone
because they hadn't filed an appeal within three months. It
turns out that the court's interpretation of three months,
and her interpretation are different. Not helped by the leap
year.
Some lawyers can't specify date durations properly,
apparently. And other lawyers can't understand what
specification there is. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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