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by wyattpeak 11y ago
How is it a franchising scam? I'm agreeing that not guaranteeing an operating area is a bit shit, but reports (from within this very thread, no less), suggest that it is very much a real and, more, worthwhile, outfit. Then again, I don
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by wyattpeak 11y ago
Right, but you're rolling two issues into one. I agree with you on the creating something obvious part, and the patent perhaps shouldn't have been issued (though scroll down for more discussion on that, it's more complicated
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by wyattpeak 11y ago
But did it know it before the case? Has it had time to withdraw its claim since this information has become widely known? In fact, does anyone know anything about the company besides what its legal opponents have said? I'm not saying t
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by wyattpeak 11y ago
I mean hold up a minute, do we know that they didn't? This article, two-line update aside, is extraordinarily one-sided. They don't seem to have reached out to the other party at all.
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by wyattpeak 11y ago
I was actually intentionally skipping over everything about the granting of the patent, the non-obviousness was just the first thing that came to mind. The point I was making, which I thought my post made clear, was that the granting of the
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by wyattpeak 11y ago
I never thought I'd find myself defending a plaintiff in a patent lawsuit, but some of HN has really gone off the deep end with this anti-patent nonsense. This is a company who are defending their legally granted competitive advantage
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by wyattpeak 11y ago
In what possible way is a video call equivalent to international travel? Seriously, I could start listing the things you can accomplish with one and not the other and I would never run out of steam.
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by wyattpeak 11y ago
> The animation isn't making the user think the app is faster... I disagree. The right hand animation, sure, but if I saw the middle animation, I don't think I'd register the latency at all. In fact I think I might misinte
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by wyattpeak 11y ago
Yes. Yes it was. People can wax lyrical all day about how there was nothing technically sophisticated about the phone, but the day the iPhone came out was the day the average user started caring about that sophistication.
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A host with insecure FTP and alphanumeric usernames
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Talking to machines and other psychopathological indicators(wyattpeak.com)
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Sony unveils prototype iris-tracking glasses(wyattpeak.com)
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by wyattpeak 16y ago
Simply moving to Linux isn't liable to significantly help or hinder your programming. These days Linux, provided you choose a distribution with a GUI, is pretty well as comfortable to use as Windows - not quite as refined, but the differenc
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What I look for in an artificial assistant(wyattpeak.com)
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Living in the cloud…How did it go?(education.zdnet.com)
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Why Startups Don’t Make Money Anymore(wyattpeak.com)
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Can Growth Destroy A Site?(wyattpeak.com)
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The 3D Web in 2008(readwriteweb.com)
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by wyattpeak 18y ago
Without any particular plans for what you want to do, I think the other commenters' concerns are valid. However I think the best solution would be come up with some plans, not to continue university. You've expressed your disinterest in spe