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by cwp 18y ago
Analogies between software development and building construction are usually misleading. Writing software is more analogous to architecture. Actually building software is so easy we don't notice it any more. Compilers take care of it for
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by cwp 18y ago
Whenever someone in an organization proposes to add a new check, they should have to explain not just the benefit but the cost. No matter how bad a job they did of analyzing it, this meta-check would at least remind everyone there had to b
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by cwp 18y ago
I think patent holders should only be able to sue for lost revenue. That is, damages should be limited to what they would have been able to earn from the invention if nobody else had been using it.
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by cwp 18y ago
It seems to me that from a narrow legal stand point, you have a decent argument. From a more practical stand point, if you wish to monetize what you write, I'd suggest that posting it as comments isn't a good way to go about it. Why not jus
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by cwp 18y ago
I had lasik about 5 years ago and I can't say enough good things about it. I did a bit of research and found a surgeon in Vancouver, BC who had done a lot of surgeries and some original research on eye surgery. It cost about $3000 for both
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by cwp 18y ago
Do you really think downloading from the App Store is the only way to get software onto the phone? If you want load recompiled software, you need the SDK. But then, you need the SDK to recompile the software in the first place, so it's not
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by cwp 18y ago
Yeah, that's a bit bizarre. YouTube is a great example of the long tail in action. Instead of considering YouTube a hit compared to the rest of the web, consider its content. If I post a video of me and my friends goofing off at the beach,
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by cwp 18y ago
What we need is a Godel patent: a patent on the business method of patent-trolling. That would help in two ways. First you could go after all the trolls with patent-infringement lawsuits. Second, it would serve as an easy-to-understand exam
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by cwp 18y ago
Actually, that doesn't matter very much. The point of the pool is not to get access to patented technology that you wouldn't otherwise be able to use. It's to be able to defend yourself against patent lawsuits. If you're sued, you can count
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by cwp 18y ago
Not quite. If you're dispatching based on a sequence of opcodes, that's indirect threading. Direct threading uses a sequence of pointers to the opcode implementations, and jumps directly to them. Also, one of the key benefits of threaded in