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by btrettel 5y ago
Where did Fabrice Bellard work before 2012? I'm interested in seeing how he funded his work over time.
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I've used Zotero for over a decade to save webpages. It works fine in my experience, though I'd prefer if Zotero saved all the assets in a single file.
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I did a PhD on sprays and I am a former patent examiner. I'm pretty skeptical that nozzle patents are a bottleneck here. Maybe other patents are but I don't think there's been a lot of innovation in inkjet printer nozzles s
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> TUIs are a gimmick that should have been just GUIs. I mostly agree. I use Midnight Commander a lot but I'd prefer a basically identical GUI version with the same keys. None of the Linux GUI orthodox file managers I looked at were
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by btrettel 5y ago
How does one stay employed for a long time as an "unusually unreasonable" employee who points out major issues? The Yossi Kreinin link in the article suggests developing a reputation first. Any other approaches?
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What should someone do differently to have a more realistic workload?
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NeoPaint [0] for DOS was probably my first. I have few specific memories of using the software, unfortunately. But I ran it in DOSBox sometime in the last year and found the experience familiar but also not. [0] https://en.wikipe
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by btrettel 5y ago
I'm not the author of the linked webpage, but here are some of the things I find valuable about my Markdown daily log: - I don't have to rely on my possibly faulty memory about the details of past events. My logs often have consid
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by btrettel 5y ago
I haven't looked at the patent in detail, but in my experience as a former patent examiner, likely the claims cover some new detail missing from the prior art. You need to look at what was claimed to know what is covered. Take a look a
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If you're implying that only filed patent applications are available as prior art, that's not right. Anything available to the public can be prior art in the US. (Even some private things can be prior art in the US, for example, a
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by btrettel 5y ago
There are some links to various versions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22582644
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What are some low-stress jobs that pay well? I've thought that some IT jobs might fit the bill, particularly if one only needs to work a small number of hours each day. When I was a teenager, I worked at a gas station, which was mostly
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by btrettel 5y ago
Similating a Lava lamp with ML doesn't affect the security of RNGs in my view. You could do a computer simulation of a Lava lamp with the Navier-Stokes equations for a long time now. Chaos theory would mean that predicting the long-ter
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by btrettel 5y ago
There is no overall STEM shortage as far as I'm concerned. I'm sure that hiring is difficult for many employers, but that doesn't mean there is a shortage. Here are some things to consider if you're hiring and you think
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A warning for those who remove dates from their content and care about invalidating bad patents and rejecting bad patent applications: If there's no date, likely a patent examiner can't use it as prior art. I used to work as a pat
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Probably depends on your use case, but my experience is that getting good results with text search often takes a lot more effort than tagging/classifying the documents when you get them would. It takes effort to craft a good query. Ter
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Former patent examiner here. The job of a patent examiner can be quite stressful, and I don't think it's particularly amenable to making breakthroughs. At the end of the day I rarely felt like working on personal projects as I was
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by btrettel 5y ago
For more on some of the incentives attorneys face to write vaguely, see this blog post (written for mechanical inventions but you'll get the point): https://krajec.com/dont-write-patents-that-hide-the-ball/
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by btrettel 5y ago
Former USPTO patent examiner here. As the article suggests, the main problem with overly broad patents comes down to a lack of time given to examiners. Can't find it in the time given? You'll often be told to allow the application
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by btrettel 5y ago
A while back I heard about Z39.50 [0], a protocol that libraries use for their catalogs. In the 90s it seems there were native clients for the protocol so that one could interact with the library catalog without using a web interface. A lot
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by btrettel 5y ago
To expand on this, before World War II, there was far less federal funding for science, and I don't think university faculty had the need to bring in external funding that they do now. I don't know the history of requirements that
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Using the translation from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863456 > If you begin to feel misunderstood, with no one recognizing the importance of your work and the genius of your ideas, seek for medical trea
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by btrettel 5y ago
A full-text search for the Wayback Machine would be my top feature request. It's not uncommon to lose the URL of a site and for active webpages to not have the URL of the old website. Plus I'm sure there are many interesting archi
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I think you're referring to a different Google Scholar feature than what I was referring to. Google Scholar will periodically email me a researcher their AI thinks does work similar to me. For the most part this is close but not quite
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Google Scholar alerts have been pretty useful for me. Most of my alerts are for papers that cite others, but I also have some alerts for normal search queries.
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Fair enough, I'm not aware of all the details of the specific case here.
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When I was in grad school back in 2015, I took an intellectual property law class, and as I recall there are some significant differences between US states in IP law with respect to the employee's rights. I haven't seen a good sum
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Amusing previous HN comment on this sort of problem (not from me): > I've always thought that if a company claims rights over what you do outside worktime, they should do it not only for your genial ideas, but for the bad ones too.
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by btrettel 5y ago
> I've not found an online service you can't switch emails with. I've probably switched email addresses on 200+ websites now, and there were a handful that don't seem to allow switching email addresses back when I mad
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The commute often is the fault of the employer, if they decide to locate the business in an area will little housing or little housing that the employees want (for example, an area with only extremely expensive apartments or a bad school di

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