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Ask HN: Have you ever used a software patent as a reference?
5 points by lmarinho 15y ago|4 comments
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by lmarinho 15y ago
Building on that, I pose a question. Has anyone here ever used a software patent as a reference to help solve a problem?
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by lmarinho 15y ago
I recommend listening to the EconTalk Podcast episode on this subject, it's very interesting and informative, as usual: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/07/hennessey_on_th.htm...
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by lmarinho 15y ago
That problem is related to the fact that Circles can be both used as (1)a privacy group of people to which you push stuff and (2)a filter for content published from that same group. To avoid this kind of confusion maybe Google should separa
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by lmarinho 15y ago
Hope the real change in that value doesn't disappoints us. If I travelled in time from 1970 to today and looked at this site I surely would be disappointed.
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by lmarinho 15y ago
Looks nice, I was looking for something similar the other day, easily sharing a directory over HTTP from command line. I ended up writing a couple of very simple bash functions that added/removed the current directory to ~/Sites (I'm on a M
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by lmarinho 15y ago
That doesn't seem to be the case but I've met a lot of not-too-bright students that managed to get excellent grades by "optimizing" their study to answer precisely the kind of questions asked more frequently in tests.
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by lmarinho 15y ago
Not to mention that the shady practices are obfuscated by properly sterilized language, as in many other organizations. One does not "threaten small developers with expensive lawsuits", one merely "extracts value from investments".
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by lmarinho 15y ago
If you are at the end of a hard day's work, struggling with a tough problem and making no progress at all, even regressing at some points, take solace in this: you still did a lot more for the world than the guys at Lodsys
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by lmarinho 15y ago
As a "vertical screen space nazi" I surely sympathize with the proposal. I always try to customize my software to use as little toolbar space as possible, maximizing the actual content space. However, suitable alternatives would have to be
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Building an IT cluster out of thin air in Brazil(thenextweb.com)
2 points by lmarinho 15y ago|0 comments
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by lmarinho 15y ago
Apples App Store, for both Mac and iOS, could learn a thing or two from this, their software update experience is awful, requiring you to re-download whole multi-gigabyte apps sometimes for minimal updates.
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by lmarinho 15y ago
Surely those goals are worthy, and they resonate with me, you, and most people here. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case for a lot o people out there. That's why I think a concrete target (planet X has cool stuff, let's go see it), with
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by lmarinho 15y ago
I wonder, if Mars was an hospitable place, full of easy resources, would we have colonized it already? To motivate a long term effort on starship building maybe we should concentrate our efforts in finding a destiny that is enticing enough
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by lmarinho 15y ago
Now someone should make a tool that expands from specification to actual code like this. How would that work?
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by lmarinho 15y ago
Craig Grannell wrote an answer to the Lodsys blog: http://reverttosaved.com/2011/05/16/lodsys-responds-to-troll...