throwawaykf09

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by throwawaykf09 9y ago
Did you try the search on both Bing and Google? Looked very different for Bing and Google. Also, that accusation was purely a PR play by Google that IMO Bing refuted convincingly: http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles
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by throwawaykf09 9y ago
Not a lawyer and haven't read that many rulings, but this one looked pretty normal and not that "sarcasm-oozing" to me. These decisions often come with elaborate reasoning behind them, with references backing them up. Sometim
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by throwawaykf09 9y ago
While Bing was poor for tech related searches in the earlier days, I find it's no longer true. Are you sure it’s 0 results on Bing? I get a bunch of relevant-looking results, and they’re all different from what Google gave me (just the
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by throwawaykf09 9y ago
Also, many open source proponents claim that open source software is more secure because the “many eyes” theory will lead to bugs and vulnerabilities being discovered sooner. This and other high profile exploits like heartbleed show how wel
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by throwawaykf09 9y ago
> Alice Corp.'s patent claimed a form of escrowing that was well known. Somebody told me that it was not really well known when the patent was filed. Apparently keeping shadow accounts was not really feasible without computers and
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by throwawaykf09 9y ago
I read the claims of that patent, and they are all hardware claims. As in, the claims are literally in terms of registers in a CPU. I would imagine in an emulator would have data structures in memory to represent these registers, but it won
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by throwawaykf09 9y ago
> "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run". Likely apocryphal: http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done...
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by throwawaykf09 9y ago
The so-called study that came up with that "30 billion" number has been thoroughly debunked. Of course, the debunking of these things gets zero media coverage, because they get no rage views compared to "news" with outra
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by throwawaykf09 9y ago
The Wright patent holding back the US airplane industry is a myth, as demonstrated by industrial data from the period: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2355673 In fact, a lot of airplane innovation wa
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by throwawaykf09 9y ago
Yes there are many, you just haven't seen any. Your perception is probably biased because you only get exposed to examples of bad patents cherry-picked by online media sources to drum up rage views. I've worked for a small company
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by throwawaykf09 9y ago
When you can flip the bits required to operate a computer with pure abstract mathematics, we'll talk.
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by throwawaykf09 10y ago
I believe ewatt (edit: Sorry not ewatt, ekidd, the GP) referenced that same book. Here's my take on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13930823
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by throwawaykf09 10y ago
While I agree with your overall sentiment, the Levine book is not a good reference. Here's a comment I'd posted about the book in the past: I would be wary of taking that book at its word. The authors have an agenda and they are n