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by timmyd 14y ago
Amazing story you have Sridhar (context - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sridhar_Vembu ) Congratulations on building an awesome company and being totally humble about it. I wish stories like yours were told more to put startups, life and wha
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by timmyd 14y ago
Elon Musk is without doubt one the best entrepreneurs around - far less celebrated than many of the other 'uber' entrepreneurs around but with such ridiculously awesome companies. 268 Miles (or slightly less according to the article) is jus
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by timmyd 14y ago
I don't think that's fair. These 2 companies have done more for music and promotion of music than anyone in the modern age - from an industry renown for collusion between the four majors (one falls into line and they all do etc). They have
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The Oatmeal has raised over $1.1M for a Nikola Tesla museum(venturebeat.com)
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by timmyd 14y ago
What I am not questioning is it's considered valid under law according to this case in the United States and abstracting yourself from the view of hating or not hating patent law - that's the test here. It is irrelevant what a group of peop
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by timmyd 14y ago
This has been spoken about over and over (refer to the heated discussion yesterday which wasn't my intention - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4431382 ). The core of the article again - looks at the concept of obviousness. Refer here -
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by timmyd 14y ago
And I totally do agree with you that some patents are totally absurd - but I reject your notion I don't understand what innovation is. The problem is - innovation as a concept and innovative step under law are two completely segregated id
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by timmyd 14y ago
I totally agree with you that execution does matter. But the Samwer's don't execute - they outright copy. From reverse engineering, to out right cloning the CSS style sheets and design UI's which is totally wrong. That's not innovation in a
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by timmyd 14y ago
But again - "i know any developer her could implement one-click in a day" and indeed a huge number of inventions could be implemented in a day. But you are again applying retrospecitivity (at least in my mind) - you need to remove that. Jus
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by timmyd 14y ago
I entirely disagree. "keep it to yourself" a) the society doesn't benefit b) then you do nothing with it c) then you don't commercialise it for gain d) if you don't protect it - you get crushed by everyone else who does and so on and so on
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by timmyd 14y ago
And as a result Europe produces the Samwer brothers - who just copy everything from the United States and open it in Europe. I'm not arguing that patent law is perfect (per my first post) but rather that it does have a function and the orig
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by timmyd 14y ago
Because that is what patent law is focused on. And yes - that's exactly why is ISNT applied consistently because only things worth patenting are filed. If you think you have a billion dollar idea (and you may have) - and no one has thought
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by timmyd 14y ago
Again, this patent has been litigated over and over and over - so it has been deemed not to be obvious to a person skilled in the art at the time of filing relevant to the claims. You can't state "it WAS obvious" - because literally million
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by timmyd 14y ago
I do agree with you in this regard. True innovations should be patentable and it's been the consistent bashing of the law to extend the scope of what is patentable that comes to the fore here. By fundamentally - having a patent and litigati
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by timmyd 14y ago
Then if its not innovative - show me the prior art ? There is none - so it's innovative under law - regardless of whether I agree or not. Amazon patented an innovative process unthought of at the time - the fact you apply retrospectivity to
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by timmyd 14y ago
Hmm - i really dont agree with this. Apple revolutionised the industry - before the iPhone we were using tiny screens with Nokia SMS interfaces or Motorla RAZR. Apple frankly blew the industry apart. "These are not patents on innovation, th
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Developing Backbone.js Applications by Addy Osmani(addyosmani.github.com)
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by timmyd 14y ago
Sure just turn it off http://www.howtogeek.com/75356/how-to-turn-off-or-disable-th...
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by timmyd 14y ago
"The only physical evidence here is the hundreds of controls I have passed with flying colors. I made myself available around the clock and around the world. In-competition. Out of competition. Blood. Urine. Whatever they asked for I provid
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by timmyd 14y ago
Yeah - it's totally awesome a but few things to note to be the devils advocate. 1) It cost around $10 million to get it to this point - that's OK as they have got it working but it's a significant capital spend. 2) It cost $600 USD approx f
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by timmyd 14y ago
They should have provided clear notification on the next login with a link to the details of the implementation. I recall no such action occurring in anyway.
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by timmyd 14y ago
Indeed the problem - as with Facebook - is that these settings are constantly "opt-out". This is perhaps as bad as the Beacon program in that as the author correctly originally notes - some personal items might be "viewed" which subsequentl
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by timmyd 14y ago
I love it how the HTML is 30 lines and the CSS is like 300 or so. It's an awesome watch. Keyframes are a beautiful thing in CSS but boy oh boy I wish jQuery implemented them to reduce CSS size. It's becomming insane to have so many keyframe
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by timmyd 14y ago
In my mind this seems like FUD. With every new interface change - comes some sort of "oh my god they don't allow you too ...." This article totally pops to mind - http://www.uie.com/articles/facebook_mini_feed/ When Facebook introduced th
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by timmyd 14y ago
Sure - but the only way to use it at the moment (as was shown in the demo at Google I/O was to stream via a bluetooth connection to a mobile device) and Sergy Brin has also indicated that it will contain mobile connectivity
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by timmyd 14y ago
yeah true - but as with all that data, the proximity of it is in no extent to the same degree as these glasses is going to be. a 4G chip, literally 1cm from your temple for 8-16 hours a day just cannot be something that is encouraged or tha
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by timmyd 14y ago
Sure that's a valid fear - and I do agree that in some sense it will be information overload. Anything will be accessible anywhere with a flick of your eyes - so the data stream will be even more accessible than with your mobile phone (whic
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by timmyd 14y ago
im all for Google Glass - but I just don't see anyone talking about the health aspects of these glasses. Given the prominence of electromagnetic radiation and the often fear that it has spread around the globe in respect of brain activity,
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by timmyd 14y ago
i guess then in some respects - its funny how correct Adam was in his comments http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/Why-does-Quora-use...
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by timmyd 15y ago
`Whilst this is a very timid example, it does help illustrate how a lot of preprocessors’ built in ‘helpful’ aspects actually go against our ideals; .nav li a{} could (and should) just be .nav a{}.` Not if .nav li a{} and .nav a{} are speci

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