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President Obama 'Learned to Code' Using Method Patented by Microsoft in 1998
- dalke 12y agoStop pushing your agenda. You published essentially the same link the yesterday. Both go to Slashdot submission queue entries which were never published, using an account name very similar to yours. Your yesterday link was at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8781105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8781105 . I was the only commenter. I wrote "Is this one of those artificial outrage things?" and followed it up with quotes from the patent which seem to show that Obama did not use required aspects from the patent.
- theodpHN 12y agoFrom the Vice link, the President did not use Blockly for the JavaScript statement he entered, but dropped into a text mode from graphical mode, like the 1998 Microsoft patent describes: 'The code is "not rocket science,” Partovi wrote, but that’s the point (Obama used an as-of-yet unreleased version of Patovi's coding tutorial, apparently).'