munchbunny

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by munchbunny 14y ago
The main difficulty in porting has less to do with OpenGL itself and more to do with the number of platform-specific issues you encounter when you're trying to port code that is highly optimized for specific platforms.
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by munchbunny 14y ago
Be careful. The idea behind patents and IP law in general isn't protecting the innovator. It's incentivizing the innovator to advance society through new ideas. The subtle difference is that, when society no longer benefits from protecting
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by munchbunny 14y ago
You didn't read everything I said about software patents. I oppose software patents because I don't think our society needs them. But then again, you can try to pidgeonhole my opinion if you want to. I'm talking about patents. You're answer
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by munchbunny 14y ago
You're calling it trivial with over 30 years of advancements in computer science behind you. Also, thanks for picking the shortest sample on the page to show that it's trivial. If it were trivial when the patentability question came up, it
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by munchbunny 14y ago
Non-trivial theoretical basis, reduced to trivial math for implementation. JPEG and wavelet compression in practice is surprisingly simple math. But the theory that explains why and how it works is far from trivial.
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by munchbunny 14y ago
That's not what I'm saying and you know it. Please don't turn my point into a caricature. JPEG was patented. I can understand why. It was novel, it was not obvious, and it was useful. That trio makes a pretty good case for patentability, ig
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by munchbunny 14y ago
To be completely honest, I'm not sure where I stand because it's a very complex issue. JPEG met the novelty, non-obviousness, and usefulness tests, as did LZW. That they're considered nearly trivial these days is because they were such infl
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by munchbunny 14y ago
Did you see how complex the data structure actually is? If I had to choose between implementing a Judy array and implementing JPEG, I'd much rather try to write the JPEG code. Patenting a data structure sounds ridiculous, but it's a little
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by munchbunny 14y ago
No, not really. I've heard of a few exceptions in the past, and in all cases these were people with highly successful careers spanning at least a decade. That said, if you ever become a PhD candidate in CS, you should apply to MSR for a sum
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by munchbunny 14y ago
It'd be pretty difficult to recruit professors and researchers (whose professional careers depend on publishing papers) to do research for several years in a place where they can't publish. MSR encourages publishing almost to a fault. They
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by munchbunny 14y ago
Try "The Elements of Style." Classic book on writing well.
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by munchbunny 14y ago
You're not separating the wheat from the chaff with that. You're separating the cream from the crop.