{"id":1961,"date":"2015-06-29T01:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T06:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2015-06-15T08:07:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T13:07:38","slug":"more-eyeballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/06\/more-eyeballs\/","title":{"rendered":"More Eyeballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ever decreasing cost of technology enables more people to look at more of our problems. There is hope.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linus%27s_Law\">Linus&#8217; Law <\/a>is disputed as to what it is and who said it and who published it and all those things that come with a quote that is often quoted and misquoted.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll continue the confusion by paraphrasing it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Given enough eyeballs, all bugs (problems) are shallow (solvable).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone out there knows the answer or knows a different approach that makes the answer available with a little (not a lot of) work.<\/p>\n<p>Some technical &#8220;availables&#8221; include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the ever less expensive computer<\/li>\n<li>the ever less expensive health monitor<\/li>\n<li>the ever less expensive microscope<\/li>\n<li>the ever less expensive telescope<\/li>\n<li>the ever less expensive pencil and paper<\/li>\n<li>the ever less expensive blog platform<\/li>\n<li>and we can go on for quite a while<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All these things put more eyeballs on more problems. Perhaps the cure for cancer is coming from an unexpected (unfunded) source in an unexpected place. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if a 13-year-old in Tibet raised her hand with the answer?<\/p>\n<p>So, give that person a second-hand $100 Chromebook and show them how to get a one-month, free-trial of a cloud computing platform. Stand back in wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips The ever decreasing cost of technology enables more people to look at more of our problems. There is hope. Linus&#8217; Law is disputed as to what it is and who said it and who published it and all those things that come with a quote that is often quoted and misquoted. I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,53,3],"tags":[133,174,126],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-problems","category-technology","tag-people","tag-problems","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}