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by efsavage 15y ago
> Everyone benefits only when the patent expires. No, everyone benefits when the patent is published, because you can start studying how the invention worked. Of course this doesn't really apply to method patents that describe abstract
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by efsavage 15y ago
In my own limited experience, as well as what I've heard elsewhere, yes. I've never really gotten a good answer as to why, so my guess is that some M&A playbook somewhere says that giving people less time will make them less likely to
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by efsavage 15y ago
You partly answered your own question. When you control the hardware and the software, the number of testing variables goes down dramatically. Of course, by that logic, since the same company that made my macbook did the hardware and the s
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by efsavage 15y ago
I don't search to see if you've ever filed for one, but putting it on your resume to me says that you want to work for a company that promotes them. The day may come when I have to file defensive patents of my own, but I'll never brag abou
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by efsavage 15y ago
This seems a bit of a broad swath for my taste, as Yahoo is a big place, but when screening resumes, someone listing their software patents is an automatic strike 1 and 2 in my book.
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by efsavage 15y ago
It feels like an action button, like I'm going to download something. Something like http://imgur.com/T2muH seems simpler (forgive the crude 2 minute execution)
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by efsavage 15y ago
I won't assess "better", but high profile trials do drive changes in legislation. From changes to kidnapping after the Lindbergh baby until the present day with "Caylee's Law", people need to have a stake (even a vicarious one) to really c
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by efsavage 15y ago
Autoboxing was the worst thing ever added to Java.
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by efsavage 15y ago
It appears that cities with high heat and humidity have more cracked phones than others.
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by efsavage 15y ago
Yelp is not a substitute for your friends. It's not even nearly as good as asking a random person on the street. If you're really stuck, go to a hotel and ask the concierge, they generally don't even care that you're not a guest if you're
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by efsavage 15y ago
A former employer of mine supposedly mulled drug testing, but abandoned the idea when they realized they would no longer have a creative department. On a more serious note, it seems to be that drug testing is only required where physical sa
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by efsavage 15y ago
If SOPA were limited to indicted suspects who sold counterfeit, dangerous, prescription-required drugs, I'd support it wholeheartedly.
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by efsavage 15y ago
Part of me sees things like this and my inner curmudgeon wakes up and yells "This is what happens when you use things that are new but not better! This is standard knowledge that has been around for 20 years! If you only used a _real_ web
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by efsavage 15y ago
Yes, but from when IE4 came out (1997) until late 2004 when Firefox came out, IE was the undisputed best browser (yes I'm ignoring Opera as we always have). That was 7 very long years of getting people to upgrade to IE from NN4.
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by efsavage 15y ago
Yes, there seems to be some disconnect between Microsft killing off competition and said competition simply being worse. Not to say that there weren't smaller companies with good products that were pushed out by some intentional decisions
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by efsavage 15y ago
"For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer." http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince08.htm
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by efsavage 15y ago
Both strategies have pros and cons, but you're comparing a marketplace and a retailer here, which function differently in many ways.
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by efsavage 15y ago
OT, but wow, is it me or is nearly everything in their portfolio _terrible_. 95% of that junk wouldn't make it past the first cut on a 99 designs contest.
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by efsavage 15y ago
If I had to picture "windows logo for metro" something more akin to the Black Flag logo comes to mind. Not this disaster that looks like some shareware multi-monitor utility.
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by efsavage 15y ago
Aside from the other reasons mentioned here, email compresses fairly well so 8GB of email could end up using less disk than 1GB of photos (which are already compressed).
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by efsavage 15y ago
I've somehow been conditioned to think of these Civil War diaries and letters as full of flowery prose and beautiful handwriting. It's actually amazing to me to see someone writing plainly and with handwriting almost as bad as my own.
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by efsavage 15y ago
Oh for sure it is better than the guesswork of the old way of market research and relying on unfavorable deals with investors, but when put in the same space as actual investments which entail a level of risk, I have to wonder if the pre-or
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by efsavage 15y ago
I love the idea and execution of Kickstarter, but I do find myself disappointed that much of its "funding" (at least the high profile stuff) is really just pre-ordering.
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by efsavage 15y ago
I think there's a semantic hangup here, what you're describing is accurate, but it probably "better" explained (in the case of something like the popular wordpress caching plugins) as "compiling" your content to flat HTML which is saved on
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by efsavage 15y ago
Why would we allow a private craft to be more dangerous? They probably will be, but because they will be soon be subject to even more strict rules, and sneaky things will have to be done to compete in that environment (see the financial s
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by efsavage 15y ago
Definitely a matter of taste, I have the newer style Apple keyboard on all my keyboards for the same reason, my hands get tired almost immediately when I have to use something else. The key travel (especially on the ergonomic ones) seems e
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by efsavage 15y ago
Well, they shouldn't. I expect far more from someone calling themselves a "designer" than their ability to draw a nice button or pick decent fonts. I expect them to be thinking about interaction, flow, "how it works", and so on.* If not,
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by efsavage 15y ago
Missed, yes, but, if there were two Steve Jobses in this world, you can be sure of two things: 1. They'd hate each other 2. The other would have laughed at that joke.
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by efsavage 15y ago
"It is the presence of success stories that will get more and more people to move this way." Absolutely. There's a very recent (<60 years) misconception (among artists and fans alike) that creating (as opposed to performing) music is a
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by efsavage 15y ago
"The conversations on Reddit were good when it was that small." When reddit was small, it was full of, and dominated by, crackpots. It was barely even at the level of being entertaining, and I'd hesitate to call it a community at all. Int

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