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by 10ren 17y ago
Oral argument for the Bilski appeal was heard last month - perhaps something will come of that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilski Personally, I think patent law needs a massive overhaul; but I also think that the lone inventor should be
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by 10ren 17y ago
One of the terrible things about being your own boss is you have no one to push back against, and ridicule for their moronic opinions about cashflow, release it ready or not etc. Instead, you have to play that role too.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Surely negative ions have got something to do with it?
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All the words in the world. Pronounced.(forvo.com)
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by 10ren 17y ago
Another good reason to be in stealth is if a company is built around a technology or idea that it hopes to patent but has not yet filed. I think this exception can be generalized to pure technology development, even without the patent leg
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by 10ren 17y ago
Does this mean it definitely was talent (including know-how etc) rather than technology or market acquisition?
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by 10ren 17y ago
Thanks! So, the XML/SOAP/WS stack tried to simplify/abstract too much or wrongly, when problems leak through, it is too impermeable to let you solve them... The "nuisance" of JSON+HTTP is a backward step in a way, but it lets you solve thos
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by 10ren 17y ago
> if you get enough vitamin D, holes in teeth repair themselves I'm interested - do you have a citation for that? I've read that teeth can repair themselves to some extent in Weston A. Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration .
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by 10ren 17y ago
It is by logic we prove, it is by intuition that we invent. - henri poincaré http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Poincare.htm...
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by 10ren 17y ago
It might get adopted quickly on a niche platform that relies heavily on webapps, and needs the efficiency because it is a relatively low powered device. Like a phone.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Thanks. The long-term trajectory of programming tools seem to favour developer ease over raw efficiency, as computers get faster but programmers don't (though possibly this might change as Moore's Law diverts from speed increases to multi-c
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by 10ren 17y ago
Is mathematics (theorem proving) an art?
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by 10ren 17y ago
He has a nice line in rhetoric. I especially liked global warming ‘sceptics’ and pointing that a true scientist is always a skeptic (his spelling is legit BTW)
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by 10ren 17y ago
Ah yes, the persistence hunt: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=557452 The nightmare concept of a relentless, unstoppable killer (as in zombie movies and the Terminator) appears to be based on us . Our bipedalism and big brain from a h
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by 10ren 17y ago
http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Message_Queuing_Protoc... http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ Sounds intriguing - can you elaborate on why this combination is favoured in particular? Or point
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by 10ren 17y ago
Interoperability is a vitally important but hard problem. CORBA and then SOAP have been thoroughly adopted, then widely condemned. What's next?
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by 10ren 17y ago
Why are humans furless? I loved the semi-aquatic-ape theory (that in foraging for shellfish we lost our fur as whales, dophins, hippos did), but I understand that one has fallen from favour.
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The S stands for Simple(72.249.21.88)
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by 10ren 17y ago
my bash, GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1), does (3)(2) kill job-completion; and (3)(3) ls option-completion (but no description). So it's partway there.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Unfortunately, the chromium .deb pre-depends on a version of dpkg that is greater than the ones available on the xandros repositories for my little eeePC (it needs >= 1.14.00; repositories have 1.13.25). I'm sure the eee forums will h
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by 10ren 17y ago
Unfortunately, not regularly updated: > Page generated at 17:55 on 15 October 2009 (PDT).
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Google Goggles - Use pictures to search the web(google.com)
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by 10ren 17y ago
And you can do the google trick with programming languages: Microsoft's C#, which supports its platform. Another example is postscript - a highly specific language tied to a system. You can also make money by implementing a language that so
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by 10ren 17y ago
I absolutely agree about today's mainstream usages. A future app that's very popular and needs the power would change that. It's the kind of thing that is likely to happen as clever people play with that extra power (consider PARC research
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by 10ren 17y ago
aside: Tim Bray on corporate sponsorship of languages: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/10/01/C-dot-next...
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by 10ren 17y ago
Thanks! I don't want to prolong the agony - but I'm curious about about "neutral and impartial" vs. "intellectual gratification." If one's opinions and emotions distort the facts, it is difficult to have intellectual gratification, because
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by 10ren 17y ago
Thanks - seems to have been this submission ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871202 ), in this comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871458 ) So it's appearing to count votes when it doesn't, by design.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Agreed, I started skipping paragraphs - just skimming the topic sentences - and then started reading it closely when it began interesting again.
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by 10ren 17y ago
I agree with sounddust (I can't just upvote, because my upvotes aren't registering). Although I personally wasn't offended by your attitude (I've gotten used to people having that attitude on HN), your comment was objectively prejudicial: "
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by 10ren 17y ago
Interesting. For me, I've found that there's a 100% failure rate, for every comment vote that I've checked. But it is registering in one way: the up-arrow is absent when it reloads, indicating that the server knows I've already voted, but d

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