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2041.
by alok-g 16y ago
With so much variation in the time measured for a given language? Fastest to slowest is approaching a factor of 100 in some cases. This study is useless (even if meaningful) with this much variation, and no clear explanation for why so.
2042.
by alok-g 16y ago
The philosophy with patents these days is that whatever you do (as a part of a big company) that hasn't been done exactly that way before, you submit an invention disclosure on it. In this sense, patents these days are used more like copyr
2043.
by alok-g 16y ago
Sure. Sure. Having an existing product gives you a framework to validate it, so makes things much easier. Yet, it is going to take more time and effort than thinking of the idea itself. Someone outside of the field may still come up with
2044.
by alok-g 16y ago
Or is it? Even ignoring that the idea may be very original and still be a very small modification to existing products, validating or implementing an idea takes a lot more effort than coming up with an idea whether or not it is a small modi
2045.
by alok-g 16y ago
A few years down the road, displays may natively have higher PPI and this issue will become moot. See for example, http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2010/06/apple-retina...
2046.
by alok-g 16y ago
Am in full agreement with jacquesm. Here's my partial list: Application virtualization, <2000. Submitted invention disclosure in 2003 or so, when prior art search revealed someone had a patent issued a year earlier (so they must have b