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I know patents are often much more detailed and precise than what their titles may sound like, but that is one crappy list of patents. "universal search", "back
by nolok 13y ago
I know patents are often much more detailed and precise than what their titles may sound like, but that is one crappy list of patents. "universal search", "background sync", beeeuah.
- malandrew 13y agoI sometimes wonder if naming patterns in an intentionally vague way is a strategy to hide them in plain site. There should be some rule that titles should be sufficiently specific.
- nitrogen 13y agoOut of curiosity, do you use speech to text to compose your HN posts? I'm wondering how "patent" became "pattern" in your first sentence.
- malandrew 13y agoNo. Either my brain moves faster than my hands or I have something else on my mind while typing and I type another similar word by accident. Don't really know. TBH this only started happening in my writing after I lived abroad for four years and was speaking English infrequently. Even now that I'm back in the US speaking English all the time it happens. I occasionally do it in speech as well.