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by dminor 14y ago
Thanks for the tip! I've signed up to both.
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Ask HN: How to get started in consulting?
1 points by dminor 14y ago|3 comments
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by dminor 14y ago
When I was in middle school I took a class at OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) called "explosive chemistry". We made black powder, sparklers, bombs, blew up water-filled pop cans with sodium, and all sorts of other things that w
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by dminor 14y ago
> Except that its illegal to offer online real money gambling in the US They are only offering gambling where it's legal, so the UK and other places like that.
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by dminor 14y ago
> Proggit (programming.reddit.com) is (IMHO) just awful. So I went over there, and the first article is about protocol-less links, and the first comment notes that they have performance issues in css for IE7 & 8. The second article
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by dminor 14y ago
In the parlance of the game industry this is something of an entity/component system, which allows one to swap out capabilities as needed.
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by dminor 14y ago
Only players in places where gambling is legal can participate. So a US developer could make a game using Betable's API, but it won't be US players gambling.
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by dminor 14y ago
The main problem (as I see it) is you're limited by the types of games offered by the API. It would be cool if you could provide your own logic for a game, but of course that's a difficult problem for Betable to solve since they need to kno
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by dminor 14y ago
> It's becoming a real joke It has always been something of a joke. No one is printing out screenshots of their favorite web apps to hang on the wall.
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by dminor 14y ago
> The ruling was pretty airtight, though, from all accounts. It was well-reasoned, but since there was no direct case law on API copyrightability, I wouldn't call it airtight. Even if Oracle gets the judge's decision overturned on appea
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by dminor 14y ago
> Men have it easy. A well fitted Saville Row cut suit has been relatively fashionable for at least a century. I'd be laughed out of the office if I wore that.
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by dminor 14y ago
> but you can't just go in and add a single line to change the color of an invalid toolbox border--the alternative to blend is to (afaik) copy the entire style resource that the element uses from MSDN, dig into it to find the appropriat
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by dminor 14y ago
* assuming it doesn't win on appeal.
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Oracle Sues Lodsys(groklaw.net)
118 points by dminor 14y ago|37 comments
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by dminor 14y ago
If you wanted to get really fancy, you could convert that trie into a DAWG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_word_graph
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by dminor 14y ago
Yeah, but you have to consider they'd also say this even if a double-agent was used.
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by dminor 14y ago
Actually 2 of them survived until trial (1 still facing further review), but Google was deemed to not be infringing by the jury.
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by dminor 14y ago
Great! Now just a few years of appeals and it will all be over...
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by dminor 14y ago
Great. Now how about getting around to outline view, which just celebrated its 10th birthday in the OO bug database?
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by dminor 14y ago
It goes back to their battles with Microsoft over the graphical desktop. Apple's hypersensitivity to perceived copying has been baked into their company DNA.
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by dminor 14y ago
> Another idea would be for banks to offer special credit card numbers, that get automatically flagged as bogus purchases. Any bank offering such a service? If I ever use the magic number, the transaction is perceived to go through, but
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by dminor 14y ago
Actually the API copyright question has not been answered yet - the judge has yet to rule on whether it's copyrightable, and the jury hung on whether it's fair use. This case is not over.
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by dminor 14y ago
If the judge rules that APIs are copyrightable, then a new jury will be necessary, so they will decide the damages on the non-API infringement which has already been found. If he rules that APIs are NOT copyrightable, then he will decide th
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by dminor 14y ago
Sequence, Structure, and Organization. Oracle is making the case that even if an individual method in the API isn't subject to copyright, collectively the are because of SSO.
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by dminor 14y ago
They were both written by Joshua Bloch, while working at Google. The first was for TimSort, which he donated to Sun/OpenJDK. He then reused the rangeCheck code in Android.
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by dminor 14y ago
> I see but does the fact that the judge told them to assume so indicate something about what he thinks about it? There are a couple reasons he may have done this - one is that the jury could have found for Google on fair use, rendering
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by dminor 14y ago
Yes - for those not following the trial, the judge has told the jury that SSO are copyrightable, and if the jury finds against Google, then the judge will decide whether or not SSO actually is copyrightable. So he may render their decisio
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by dminor 15y ago
Don't forget about hit and runs.
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by dminor 15y ago
What you want and what the law allows may be two different things. Ideas are not subject to copyright. Specific implementations might be.
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by dminor 15y ago
Try in-app payments for new types of weapons, or something along those lines. Free with in-app upgrades seems to be the way to go on Android.

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