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by utopkara 14y ago
Does anybody have any info about why this line was put in the license? Is it from the time when Google was promoting its famous motto, which is now swept under the rug.
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JSON license requires "good not evil" use(json.org)
2 points by utopkara 14y ago|3 comments
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by utopkara 14y ago
So, this is what HN posts have come to? The level of tabloid science news coverage.
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by utopkara 14y ago
Just because something became common, and comfortable, doesn't mean it will stop being economically significant. Otherwise, after the first internet bubble burst, the web design business would crash and burn, along with the the online adver
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by utopkara 14y ago
Not all patents are by trolls or big corporates. Patents are crucial to medium size and small size firms. A healthy economy requires to create an environment for these firms to thrive. If you think big corporates are the ones to focus on, c
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by utopkara 14y ago
Before pulling the end of world pickets from the attic, just have a look at the last page of the patent. None of the claims are granted. If anything, this shows the level of crap the patent examiners have to deal with everyday.
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by utopkara 14y ago
There are no valid claims on this disclosure, see last page. The description is just a narrative: even though they can be used as evidence of prior art for future patents, they are not part of the IP given to the applicant.
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by utopkara 14y ago
If KS is serious in what they are doing, they shouldn't try patches like putting arbitrary rules, but take action to solve the problem directly. Project funding is their core business after all. Apple does it with their App Store, and witho
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by utopkara 14y ago
If the point is to make sure that the backers do not make decisions uninformed, why not take time to add a curated risk score. This way, the projects will be responsible in providing proper evidence about how far they are in production, and
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by utopkara 14y ago
Prior art in itself does not provide a defensive punch. But, if a company X decides to go about suing everybody using Linux and databases, because it competes with X's business, a large patent portfolio will act as a big stick for defense a
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by utopkara 14y ago
Re: IBM patents, IBM has an interesting, and quite unique strategy regarding IP. About 20-25% of IBM patents are software patents, and IBM uses this patent portfolio to protect open source projects, especially Linux ( http://www.linuxplanet
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by utopkara 14y ago
All non-UI aspects of the Java code can now be translated into Objective-C. I am very happy to see this finally become a reality. Hopefully, we'll soon see this integrated into Cordova (PhoneGap) as well.
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Run Java code on iPhone: Java to iOS Objective-C transpiler by Google(google-opensource.blogspot.de)
3 points by utopkara 14y ago|1 comments
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by utopkara 14y ago
Obviously, B-trees have many other uses. But, i) Fenwick algorithm is more efficient when it comes to the hard numbers (the k is small), ii) it is very easy to implement.
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by utopkara 14y ago
This could be the Free Patent Foundation, similar to FSF, but for everybody.
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by utopkara 14y ago
What is needed, is a fast track evaluation of technology claims. The speed can be achieved by streamlining the process of finding the field expert, providing archives and secretarial services during the evaluation, and coaching the expert a
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by utopkara 14y ago
It would be a wonderful day for managers of the world if Balsamiq was acquired by Microsoft and integrated into Powerpoint. My brain hurts just imagining the avalanche of meetings with playable mockups; would it be good or bad?
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by utopkara 14y ago
The problem is not so much that the source repositories are there, but projects have started using github as a major goto point for their wiki, discussions, and documentation. This is probably a good example of a product which gets re-defin
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Github Outage
6 points by utopkara 14y ago|0 comments
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by utopkara 14y ago
Adrian, I finally watched your talk. Thank you for the link. It was a good talk. (Note to self: keep a few 40 minute talks handy in case the next discussion goes into a general area of interest :-) My specific complaint will be that the tal
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by utopkara 14y ago
It does matter who does it, when it is done, and how the results are used. Doing user study with the intention to iterate on the design after the development progress is already far into completion is failure of the designer. If the design
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by utopkara 14y ago
"stick around ... to conduct usability tests, user research, and user feedback" is exactly the pitfall that UX falls into when it fails. We've seen it happen so many times, and en masse. This process-driven design fails, because it tries to
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by utopkara 14y ago
A good UX designer doesn't linger around after doing the job. Their utility drops drastically after the initial design. If they do have to stay, then they haven't done a good job of communicating the key points and observations.
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by utopkara 14y ago
You need to be convinced that a designer is needed in order to pay for it, and you may not need one: If you trust that your product is designed not according to the convenience of the underlying technology (and the computation device) but t
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by utopkara 14y ago
Why is karma any significant to the quality of a post? It already costs enough to create a post (in time and effort); if that doesn't have any effect on the quality, it is not clear why an additional cost in karma would make a difference. H
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Amazon Press Conference on Kindle PaperWhite(engadget.com)
4 points by utopkara 14y ago|0 comments
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Will Science Survive?(its.caltech.edu)
1 points by utopkara 14y ago|0 comments
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by utopkara 14y ago
If you have a master of a trade in your family, you will know the weight of the title master, and the respect that comes with the excellence in detail. You will also know by example that a master is a person of search and tinkering not unli
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by utopkara 14y ago
There goes my favorite trivia question. There are really few people at IBM who know about this past tradition. Actually, I don't know if there is still an IBM chorus, perhaps it is still being kept alive.
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by utopkara 14y ago
Nice app, I would like to point out one thing, hope you find it useful enough to address. I am pretty sure many people do this too: whenever I type braces/brackets/parentheses/[/%$..] I type both open and close, then continue filling in the

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