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by axman6 13y ago
Have you read the patent?
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by axman6 13y ago
But OH MY GOD it's APPLE and MICROSOFT, didn't you see that? It's literally the devil incorporate trying to DESTROY GOOGLE who have NEVER done anything wrong ever!!! How dare they use the law to their own advantage! and besid
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by axman6 13y ago
... if they're not infringing, then they have nothing to worry about. Are you kidding me?
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by axman6 13y ago
reads half line description which outlines not a single important feature of the patent Yep, obviously these are shippy patents, I better not read them! What a joke, this is why I always get angry when reading anything about patents on HN
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by axman6 13y ago
Hang on a sec, if the patents are found valid, and Google etc. are found infringing, then they have s/broken the law/failed make appropriate agreements so that they are then allowed by the owner of the monopoly defined by the clai
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by axman6 13y ago
It's also a one of a kind and may never actually be used, but instead displayed in someone's private collection. Who cares if it's not particularly usable, it was not designed to be used from what I can tell.
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by axman6 13y ago
Not sure why that's interesting, OS X is a UNIX system and completely unrelated to Linux...
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by axman6 13y ago
Yes, dumping a huge diff of all the changes they've made to their internal LLVM project today would definitely be the right thing to do; I'd guess it's on the order of at least hundreds of thousands of lines of code. What App
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by axman6 13y ago
"helped promote LLVM/Clang", what, you mean by creating and doing the majority of the work on Clang? That's promotion? And I suppose Microsoft only promote Windows?
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by axman6 13y ago
As a user of OS X, I'm highly in favour of this move. I profer the greater openness that BSD licenced alternatives give, and as a BSD fan the benefits to the BSD community have been fantastic. Please don't state opinion as fact.
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by axman6 13y ago
Didn't mind the UI once I read the help, not disappointed with 26/75 (34.67%). That was fun!
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by axman6 13y ago
What is patented is a method of compressing data using algorithm X. If you can thing of something else which wouldn't be considered compressing data using algorithm X, then you're free to use algorithm X for this new and inventive
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by axman6 13y ago
Jesus christ, what is wrong with all you people? Somehow, firefighters in america have become the bad guys? They fucked up in an incredibly difficuly situation, and because of it, a young girl is dead. Do you have any idea how traumatic thi
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by axman6 13y ago
From time to time? So 5 out of the top 10 on the top500 is from time to time?
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by axman6 13y ago
From what I know of the space, ARM is not used very much at all in cars or aviation. These are both areas where PowerPC dominates. I'd guess most modern cars have at least a dozen PowerPC chips. And both ARM and PowerPC outsel x86 by a
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by axman6 13y ago
You understand Apple aren't the only developers of Clang right? It's their project, but there's nothing stopping anyone else (say Google, which are also huge contributors) from forking their own version of Apple decide to do
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by axman6 13y ago
Didn't Clang/compiler-rt have full support before GCC/libcxx (or whatever it's called) did? In my mind, and the minds of most others, this means actual full C++1 support. GCC claimed it early, but only because the compi
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by axman6 13y ago
I too have purchased the app, and initial testing on a 4S seems to show it works exactly as advertised. This is a really great app, and an astoundingly low price. You should be very proud I think, I'll definitely be using the app as my
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by axman6 13y ago
My first thought was "Huh, that sounds like an architecture that would map perfectly to LLVM's SSA IR". Can't wait to watch the video now!
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by axman6 13y ago
The wayback bachine is used routinely, at least in Australia, to show that a web document was publicly available before the priority date of an application. One problem is that if the document happens to be from the domain of the applicant
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by axman6 13y ago
No, the mechanism by which patents work is by temporarily banning others from using something an applicant has invented in creating. It by no means stops others competing, and it encourages innovation by making them come up with alternative
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by axman6 13y ago
I would strongly dispute this, and ask that you provide some proof that this happens. Examiners are quite well versed in their technology areas, and can see when a known idea has just been tweeked.
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by axman6 13y ago
Prior art most definitely addresses the non-obviousness side of things. To show something is non-obvious, examiners will usually take two documents which together disclose all the features of the claimed invention, and say it would be obvio
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by axman6 13y ago
So it does, my mistake.
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by axman6 13y ago
Give it a go, see what you can find. There are some problems with the wayback machine when it comes to patents. One of which is that if their robots are blocked using robots.txt, they will remove all previous content that would also have be
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by axman6 13y ago
Uh what? So you're saying that if a PSA can understand the definition, it's not inventive? That's ridiculous. And you can bet that many patents are indeed examined without a reading of the description, it's often not nec
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by axman6 13y ago
Do you have some prior art? People on HN love to use terms like prior art without knowing what they mean. You actually have to show that a) it's been done before, or at least something similar enough existed that the difference is not
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by axman6 13y ago
The title of a patent has absolutely nothing at all to do with it's scope. Any company who was sued would surely consult a lawyer and they would tell them the scope of the patent is defined in the claims.
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by axman6 13y ago
Did both reddit gold, or Facebook promoted posts exist before the priority date? If not, they're irrelevant (except to the applicant as a target for infringement).
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by axman6 13y ago
Claim 1, the broadest claim, doesn't require that.

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