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True | joffotron | null | No. It's for programming links. Programming. Programming. Programming. | null | 0 | 1316764720 | False | 0 | c2lz3m9 | t3_kouex | null | t1_c2lz3m9 | t3_kouex | null | 1427636473 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | le_kommie | null | I would absolutely **love** to hear opinions and advice how to identify passionate devs at CV level, before interviews. As would often happen, we often don't even get to interview people unless their CV gone through multi screening process, and we probably miss a lot of good people or choose wrong ones... | null | 0 | 1316764731 | False | 0 | c2lz3mz | t3_korcu | null | t1_c2lz3mz | t3_korcu | null | 1427636473 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mfukar | null | > No. The dumbest malware on this side of the Milky way doesn't need to worry about doing things particularly safely. It'll just overwrite whatever it needs, wherever.
FTFY | null | 0 | 1316764820 | False | 0 | c2lz3tt | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lz3tt | t1_c2lkdkr | null | 1427636474 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kyz | null | >What is the alternative to patents?
**Copyright**
If you come up with code that solves a problem, that code is *copyrighted*. If someone else takes your solution rather than invent it themselves, there is a trail of evidence that *they copied your code*, and thus infringed your copyrights. You have pretty much the same options or better options to deal with the infringer.
However, if someone else genuinely solves the same problem independently of your solution, there is a trail of evidence *they did not copy you.* So you don't "own" an entire category of endeavour, which is the crux of why software patents are bad. Imagine if JK Rowling patented all possible stories that had schools for wizards in them.
>We will then never get to know how a particular task was accomplished.
Software can always be reverse engineered, even if it requires peeling a chip to do it. There's no worry about the secrets of software being lost, yet there's plenty of legal muscle to go after copiers with just copyright law. | null | 0 | 1316764893 | False | 0 | c2lz3ys | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz3ys | t1_c2lywmg | null | 1427636476 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gronkkk | null | > You say FFT, but for some reason I thought you meant DFT, so I explained that.
If you could explain [density functional theory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_functional_theory) in 50 lines.... | null | 0 | 1316764939 | False | 0 | c2lz41z | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lz41z | t1_c2lxwlq | null | 1427636476 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That language would have never gotten popular. | null | 0 | 1316764943 | False | 0 | c2lz42f | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lz42f | t1_c2ly3y1 | null | 1427636476 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ghthor | null | His lame ass site has autoplay videos. Don't make me install plugins to avoid autoplay videos.... What a designer he is.... | null | 0 | 1316764965 | False | 0 | c2lz442 | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lz442 | t3_ko2wv | null | 1427636478 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anttirt | null | Yes we will, via reverse engineering. In the cases where the software is not distributed in compiled form (ie. it runs on the company's servers) they wouldn't want to patent it (and divulge the method) in the first place because another company could disregard the patent and use it anyway, and the original company would have no way to detect the violation. | null | 0 | 1316764979 | False | 0 | c2lz44y | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz44y | t1_c2lywmg | null | 1427636478 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smeezy | null | >Allowing software patents helps us because we get to see the code right away, and after a period, it becomes public domain.
At what cost? The ~~annual~~ cost of technological patent trolls **since 1990** have been [estimated at $500B](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/study-patent-trolls-have-cost-innovators-half-a-trillion-bucks.ars). That's a fucking lot of money that could be used to pay for product development instead of lawsuits. And what of the chilling effect on startups and independent developers who won't even try to make it big, for fear of getting sued by a troll, or a well-established company whose turf you encroach on?
The incredible mismatch between patent length (~20 years) versus software obsolescence (~2 years) is what kills it for me. By the time the patent expires and people are able to use the software for free, it would have been obsolete ten generations over.
>What is the alternative to patents?
Copyrights.
>If you prefer to abolish software patents, then companies will keep their surprising algorithms to themselves, as trade secrets.
This is the state of the world today *with* patents. I have yet to see any algorithm of value that has made it through the patent system, all the way to public domain (mostly since USPTO only started granting them in earnest in 1995). But I have seen the devastation that software patents have wrought on the industry.
Fuck software patents.
EDIT: Misquoted the ars article. Thanks zekopeko. | null | 0 | 1316764998 | True | 0 | c2lz46e | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz46e | t1_c2lywmg | null | 1427636478 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | le_kommie | null | I don't get it. | null | 0 | 1316765003 | False | 0 | c2lz46n | t3_koozi | null | t1_c2lz46n | t3_koozi | null | 1427636478 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wonglik | null | Is it ok for non US citizens to sign it as well? | null | 0 | 1316765110 | False | 0 | c2lz4dx | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz4dx | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636480 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ghthor | null | Clearly.... | null | 0 | 1316765147 | False | 0 | c2lz4go | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lz4go | t1_c2lx24m | null | 1427636481 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andibabi | null | therefor is a legal term and is different from therefore | null | 0 | 1316765167 | False | 0 | c2lz4ia | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz4ia | t1_c2lyrnx | null | 1427636481 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gronkkk | null | > The above quote tells me that the author has simply never stumbled onto a truly difficult concept.
Nope. Programming is one of those areas where there are a lot of relatively easy problems, but where people go to great lengths to make them 'hard'. It's all about 'expert status' and job security. | null | 0 | 1316765228 | False | 0 | c2lz4n5 | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lz4n5 | t1_c2lxo7e | null | 1427636483 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ghthor | null | You have so many methods! I can't wait to call them all! | null | 0 | 1316765293 | False | 0 | c2lz4rl | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lz4rl | t1_c2lym9o | null | 1427636485 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | daminkz | null | I think that's the joke? | null | 0 | 1316765337 | False | 0 | c2lz4ul | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lz4ul | t1_c2lvhql | null | 1427636485 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ours | null | >I work with sql server these days.
Well if it isn't mister fancy-pants with his auto-incremented fields and sane built-in management/development tools.
How I miss SQL Server... | null | 0 | 1316765378 | False | 0 | c2lz4xv | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz4xv | t1_c2lttx4 | null | 1427636486 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elmuerte | null | > Unless otherwise indicated, all entries listed here are available in both the 3.8 and 4.2 development streams.
Wait... eclipse 4.2 ? Where's 4.0 !? | null | 0 | 1316765526 | False | 0 | c2lz578 | t3_knx2p | null | t1_c2lz578 | t3_knx2p | null | 1427636489 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | leonscape | null | Where talking about how shit the UI is, not how you can write SQL. I can write SQL to do most anything, I already knew that. Prat.
Talking of writing SQL... Its also slower to write SQL in it that it was in Query Analyser. Why is it incapable of keeping up with my typing?
SSMS is slow, bloated, and harder to use than its predecessor. | null | 0 | 1316765595 | False | 0 | c2lz5bw | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz5bw | t1_c2lwg1j | null | 1427636491 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ours | null | >150K/yr plus benefits
Now I know why someone would want to put up with Oracle's crappy tools. | null | 0 | 1316765878 | False | 0 | c2lz5u6 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz5u6 | t1_c2lwb1e | null | 1427636497 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adolfojp | null | Silverlight development skills are transferable to Metro. In fact, most of the existing Silverlight code is. Silverlight developers didn't get burned, they just became Metro developers. The transition should be easier than the transition from WinForms to WPF. | null | 0 | 1316765928 | False | 0 | c2lz5xj | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lz5xj | t1_c2lumlq | null | 1427636498 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | I_Downvote_Cunts | null | Looks awesome but does anyone know how to use it? | null | 0 | 1316765962 | False | 0 | c2lz5zi | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2lz5zi | t3_kolze | null | 1427636498 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | You know what? Generally, the less you use the mouse, the more power an IDE seems to have. | null | 0 | 1316766027 | False | 0 | c2lz63p | t3_ko21c | null | t1_c2lz63p | t1_c2lvkdy | null | 1427636501 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ipompa | null | TOAD works "fine", of course on windows. on Linux i use SQLDeveloper and never had a problem | null | 0 | 1316766110 | False | 0 | c2lz68j | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz68j | t1_c2ltsf4 | null | 1427636503 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jameshfisher | null | "Computers" is a pretty big field. | null | 0 | 1316766130 | False | 0 | c2lz6a9 | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2lz6a9 | t1_c2lz3fm | null | 1427636503 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcandre | null | And yet 5 is not 5.0 is not 5.0L is not "5" is not 10e1000/2e1000. Merely representing a thing in software is not always intuitive. | null | 0 | 1316766164 | False | 0 | c2lz6cl | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lz6cl | t3_kogj4 | null | 1427636504 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonefry | null | Same statements made no sense as questions. Also, just because you put a question mark at the end, that doesn't make it a question.
Personally, I just assumed that there was a problem with his blogging software, as in some unicode-related rendering issue. | null | 0 | 1316766240 | False | 0 | c2lz6hg | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lz6hg | t1_c2ltnz1 | null | 1427636506 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316766594 | False | 0 | c2lz76m | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz76m | t1_c2lwrwv | null | 1427636516 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Always using curly spaces is great. I particularly like it how it's trivial to shuffle around whole lines of code without adjusting braces. | null | 0 | 1316766595 | False | 0 | c2lz76p | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lz76p | t1_c2lys1l | null | 1427636516 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ikanobori | null | Sadly it seems to render a tad weird on webkit browsers. | null | 0 | 1316767025 | False | 0 | c2lz7zw | t3_koqe8 | null | t1_c2lz7zw | t3_koqe8 | null | 1427636527 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Wyndikan | null | You... are kidding, right? Is it really? | null | 0 | 1316767141 | False | 0 | c2lz87q | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz87q | t1_c2lz4ia | null | 1427636530 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sfork | null | fucking 12 year old grammar and spelling Nazis. | null | 0 | 1316767191 | False | 0 | c2lz8b5 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz8b5 | t1_c2lz4ia | null | 1427636531 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pirvul | null | Offtopic: http://img7.imagebanana.com/img/ihzfuv9e/Workspace1_045.png
:D | null | 0 | 1316767317 | False | 0 | c2lz8jl | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lz8jl | t3_ko2wv | null | 1427636533 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sod1864 | null | therefor = "For that object or purpose."
therefore = "For that reason; consequently"
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True | FeepingCreature | null | Would it be more catastrophic than software patents, though? | null | 0 | 1316767469 | False | 0 | c2lz8ug | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz8ug | t1_c2lyumj | null | 1427636545 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | > Edit: sorry kept ranting, back to the point.
No problem. I know your pain. In my case I have to deal with interop with expensive equipment and non-reproducible data, plus a management that still assumes all our problems would vanish if we think more before we write code.
My statement above is not a fundamentalist anti-testing statement, just a quip with a core of truth. Research shows that many long-term problems do correlate with the size of the code base.
I am in no way against automated testing - in the same vein I am very outspoken against more automated testing always being better.
----
> *Lets put it this way, the code base is like a house of cards*
At that point, it's usually to late. If the managment mechanisms that lead to such a code base doesn't change, there's no sane way to dig out of. It seems you are given a chance to correct something, good luck and make us proud! I'd like to encourage you to take notes of your progress, and at some point publish what you learnt during that ordeal.
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True | sod1864 | null | Unless your signature is on a check to a lobby group instead of a petition, nothing is going to happen. | null | 0 | 1316767567 | False | 0 | c2lz906 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz906 | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636539 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ashleyw | null | Will voiding them fix anything? Patents are like a public declaration that you had an idea first. You can submit a plan for a time-machine, and if granted, that doesn't mean the patent office has had some physicists in to confirm that it works, just that they've checked their records, and nobody seems to have submitted the idea before. If it weren't for patents, software companies would just announce press-releases where they would previously file for a patent, and use that in lawsuits (obviously not as effective, but it's no different really, other than it being decentralised and nonofficial.) | null | 0 | 1316767569 | True | 0 | c2lz908 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz908 | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636539 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Arrgh | null | Nope. Programming is not uniform. Some projects really are inherently simple and easy, and others are not. A significant chunk of the "simplicity" and "ease" are functions of one's proficiency with the tools, language and problem domain, and another very significant chunk is quite simply inherent in the problem.
Great programmers can often find surprisingly simple solutions to complex problems--sometimes the problem wasn't so complex after all, and sometimes it's genius at work. | null | 0 | 1316767793 | False | 0 | c2lz9f5 | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lz9f5 | t1_c2lz4n5 | null | 1427636547 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | There are some hints here [under the Usage section](http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury/documentation/).
I'm presuming the steps would be:
1. Put files on web server
2. Add javascript to run mercury_loader.js
3. Add html snippet to make it work
I haven't tried it though. | null | 0 | 1316767807 | False | 0 | c2lz9g4 | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2lz9g4 | t1_c2lz5zi | null | 1427636547 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alexeyr | null | No, you can't sue just because "you had an idea first". Patents aren't just such a public declaration; they are a declaration which gives some specific rights. | null | 0 | 1316767891 | False | 0 | c2lz9lc | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz9lc | t1_c2lz908 | null | 1427636549 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | captainAwesomePants | null | If most of the value of a company is in its software patent IP, you have invested in a patent troll, and I hate you.
But seriously, there are ways to get around this. The simplest way is to simply stop issuing new software patents. You at least stem the flood, and over a couple of decades the problem will go away rather than get worse.
You could also do some sort of compromise. Perhaps allow any existing patents to stay around for 5 more years, or maybe let the patents stay around, but limit damages and require reasonable licensing fees. | null | 0 | 1316767914 | False | 0 | c2lz9mp | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz9mp | t1_c2lyumj | null | 1427636550 | 39 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abrasax | null | I'm guessing you're talking about the IntelliSense menu that pops up with suggestions? If it takes two seconds for you to pop up, something is wrong with your settings/computer. I've used SSMS on a lot of different setups, and it's never taken more than a millisecond for the IntelliSense dialog to pop up.
Edit: Read further down along. I see what you mean with contextual menus now. I have nothing to say about that, some of them do load slowly. | null | 0 | 1316767954 | True | 0 | c2lz9p5 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz9p5 | t1_c2lz76m | null | 1427636550 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | If you are doing a full-page application then Silverlight to WinRT/Metro is no where near as bad as VB 6 to VB.NET. For even large Silverlight apps you should be able to port the code in a day or two.
If you application mixes Silverlight with JavaScript you are in for a rough ride. But then again, that is also a problem for Silverlight Out-Of-Browser.
WPF to WinRT/Metro is very difficult, just like WPF to Silverlight. | null | 0 | 1316768095 | False | 0 | c2lz9y5 | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lz9y5 | t1_c2lvan5 | null | 1427636552 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ashleyw | null | Source? From what I understand, they're worth jack-shit on their own, you still have to get a court order for anything to happen.
If you get granted a patent which covers the entire design of wheels, that doesn't mean that you'd be able to defend your IP, just that nobody had been stupid enough to try and claim themselves originator for the idea before. You'd still lose in court, every time, so it's worthless. | null | 0 | 1316768172 | True | 0 | c2lza31 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lza31 | t1_c2lz9lc | null | 1427636553 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | It isn't even abandoned yet, let alone dead. There is a lot of risk that it will happen though, so if you care about it you need to let Microsoft know. | null | 0 | 1316768195 | False | 0 | c2lza4p | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lza4p | t1_c2lx6hn | null | 1427636554 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cornmountain | null | I think there are few software engineers in the industry who will disagree with you. The problem as I've seen over and over again is that it's easy for people to bitch about it from the trenches but nearly impossible to get those voices heard at the legislative level. | null | 0 | 1316768226 | False | 0 | c2lza6r | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lza6r | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636555 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Microsoft never saw Silverlight as a way to kill flash, that's just what the developers wanted. As this article illustrates, Silverlight was really just tech porn; Microsoft still doesn't know what the heck they are going to do with it.
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True | Bamafan | null | >The problem with comments is that comments can lie. The code can change or the programmer made a mistake.
To this I would say that a programmer who doesn't update comments has not really completed his job. A bad comment is a bug in my book.
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True | Bamafan | null | > People don't keep comments up to date 100% of the time.
That's only because we allow them to get away with this. I think we should stop doing that! | null | 0 | 1316768856 | False | 0 | c2lzb7u | t3_kmk56 | null | t1_c2lzb7u | t1_c2lp8ia | null | 1427636570 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tragomaskhalos | null | Nonsense.
1. In what sense is it "wrong"? If I need to analyse some data it's convenient to get the query working in the GUI , capture the output to CSV or XLS and take it from there. A decent GUI should be able to handle tens of thousands of rows, and indeed decent GUIs do.
2. In any case, no-one mentioned large datasets - a big query that takes ages to run doesn't necessarily result in a large dataset - the issue is the time the GUI wastes by rerunning a long-running query, not data volumes.
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True | jkff | null | Can anyone explain why it is so ridiculously difficult and expensive to protect against obviously invalid patents? Is it because you're not allowed to represent yourself and therefore must hire astronomically expensive lawyers, or because the judges are by far too incompetent in the problem domain, or what? | null | 0 | 1316768929 | False | 0 | c2lzbcb | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzbcb | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636572 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Almafeta | null | End software patents, so we can end up with a system where the big three encrypt all binaries, using undocumented processors (custom-designed by their particular subservient silicon provider) to ensure there is no possible user-level access to the workings of their trade secrets. | null | 0 | 1316769163 | False | 0 | c2lzbp0 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzbp0 | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636575 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bamafan | null | >... because if you change the function x to either not use the value or not care about the initialization and don't change initialize, the comment immediately becomes obsolete/useless/confusing, etc.
Well that's just the thing. If function x changes and the current function/variable being inspected is no longer needed, then you should delete that function/variable. Because now you have dead code (a huge sin).
> From one side it's a good idea to comment on side effects, but this particular case it's useless (IMO) because I'm initializing attributes of an object during initialization.
I would say it's LESS useful, but hardly useless. The side effect explains a bit about what calling functions should expect (e.g. what value a variable is being initialized *to*). That said, do I think that comment was critical? No. But I always favor on the side of too many comments than too few. I'd be happy to a comment like that because I'd be confident the rest of the program got the same amount of attention.
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True | ThatsALogicalFallacy | null | A patent is necessary but not sufficient for such a lawsuit. If you have no patent, you will not stand a chance at a lawsuit, even if you actually did invent it first. | null | 0 | 1316769197 | False | 0 | c2lzbra | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzbra | t1_c2lza31 | null | 1427636575 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | manixrock | null | Technically we're asking for a solution to the software patents problem, regardless of which tree needs barking at. | null | 0 | 1316769332 | False | 0 | c2lzbz2 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzbz2 | t1_c2lyz4z | null | 1427636578 | 87 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aslate | null | Ugh, I remember having to learn all of that...to run on a quantum computer. I think my brain died a little that week. | null | 0 | 1316769357 | False | 0 | c2lzc0w | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lzc0w | t1_c2lxwlq | null | 1427636589 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rlee0001 | null | Patents give you the right to litigate against anyone that steals your original idea. It grants you a temporary monopoly over the commercialization of that idea.
Unlike copyrights, inventions are not automatically protected upon conception/expression. Just because you had an idea first, even if you can prove that fact, doesn't mean that others can't take that idea and commercialize on it. | null | 0 | 1316769419 | False | 0 | c2lzc3n | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzc3n | t1_c2lza31 | null | 1427636580 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | moreyes | null | — Wow, they create new languages to write browsers these days...
— Makes sense, since browsers will replace OSes! | null | 0 | 1316769474 | False | 0 | c2lzc6x | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2lzc6x | t3_kos4z | null | 1427636581 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dnlprkns | null | Ah, but the point is that the patent office is executive and therefore subject to the court interpreting the law. The only real way to change this is through legislation. Which of course requires the legislature. Which is currently only describable as a shit-acaine or possible a shit-nado. | null | 0 | 1316769705 | False | 0 | c2lzcjg | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzcjg | t1_c2lzbz2 | null | 1427636586 | 48 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | blergh- | null | I was under the impression it was there for the tricks that are pulled in for example COM. But apparently, Microsoft indeed implemented this for live patching. No wonder the operating system is an unstable mess. | null | 0 | 1316769773 | False | 0 | c2lzcna | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lzcna | t1_c2lwwwg | null | 1427636589 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | slurpme | null | > This is inconsistent to the original MySQL business model.
As if this is even remotely relevant anymore... | null | 0 | 1316770054 | False | 0 | c2lzd2p | t3_ko20r | null | t1_c2lzd2p | t3_ko20r | null | 1427636592 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikaelhg | null | Yes, with modern IDEs doing all the work for you, there is really no excuse to do otherwise.
I'm currently having to modify code, the author of which had the strangest ideas of how to produce maintainable if-else structures. | null | 0 | 1316770115 | False | 0 | c2lzd6a | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lzd6a | t1_c2lys1l | null | 1427636594 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | If he has 50 million invested in a patent troll, you hating him is really not going to mean anything. | null | 0 | 1316770116 | False | 0 | c2lzd6c | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzd6c | t1_c2lz9mp | null | 1427636595 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mattrussell | null | I find it hard to locate the New and Noteworthy pages for various milesones -- is there an obvious single place where they are published? | null | 0 | 1316770237 | False | 0 | c2lzddi | t3_knx2p | null | t1_c2lzddi | t3_knx2p | null | 1427636596 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AStrangeStranger | null | personally I like the way Enums in Java allow you to have values other than ordinals attached to them - I find most the time I want to persist/display them as a string (e.g. makes much easier to check database if status is list of values like "new", "in-progress", "cancel", "rejected", "complete" rather than 0,1,2,3,4). In these cases it make sense to keep with Enum how to match a string to the Enum when loading.
I find having multiple attributes on an Enum can also be useful – e.g. for status it can be useful to have a isFinalStatus flag
But some people will always abuse things and move things in which make a mockery of it being an enum | null | 0 | 1316770318 | False | 0 | c2lzdhq | t3_kocub | null | t1_c2lzdhq | t1_c2lvqc6 | null | 1427636598 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cheater00 | null | He's also giving the talk at Oct 11, in MIT 2-143, be there or be square | null | 0 | 1316770326 | False | 0 | c2lzdi5 | t3_kow8f | null | t1_c2lzdi5 | t3_kow8f | null | 1427636598 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DoubleDekker | null | Exactly. If properly approached, Euler problems can be hard and make us learn new concepts. Most people come up with hacks instead of a proper solution. I'd say the majority of problem forum posts confirm this. | null | 0 | 1316770506 | False | 0 | c2lzdr1 | t3_koio1 | null | t1_c2lzdr1 | t1_c2lz20w | null | 1427636601 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kataire | null | tl;dr code is data and you can't patent data. | null | 0 | 1316770556 | False | 0 | c2lzdtt | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzdtt | t1_c2lz254 | null | 1427636603 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KumbajaMyLord | null | And that sentence perfectly illustrates why pointers are somewhat *tricky* for people new to the concept.
You, Mom, the friend, the uncle and the hairdresser are all concrete entities. The pointers are You**r** and **'s**.
When I say "Your Mom's friend's uncle has a new hairdresser", did I manipulate the pointer or did I just update the previous hairdresser entity with a new one?
That is one level of dealing with references that is just not present in the way we use references in everyday life, but it is an important difference in programming. Grasping pointers requires a different way of thinking and adjusting to that requires some mental transfer. Of course, once you grasped the concept it seems easy. | null | 0 | 1316770849 | False | 0 | c2lze8a | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lze8a | t1_c2lys4z | null | 1427636607 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alexeyr | null | And you can't get that court order if you just have a public declaration, but not a patent. | null | 0 | 1316770976 | False | 0 | c2lzeey | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzeey | t1_c2lza31 | null | 1427636610 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | captainbarky | null | It looks pretty cool in the demo. I shouldn't have looked at the code. It's shit like this, "_len, _len2, _len3, _len4, _ref, _ref2, _ref3, _ref4, _ref5" and oversized functions. | null | 0 | 1316771119 | False | 0 | c2lzemf | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2lzemf | t3_kolze | null | 1427636613 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oorza | null | 4.0 was released a year ago this last June. 4.1 was released last June.
4.0 was a platform preview release, primarily targeted towards plugin developers who need to develop their plugins against changes made to the platform.
4.1 was an early adopters release, with most of the core plugins available for the new platform. It's not yet ready for prime time, but (almost) usable on a day to day basis.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think the plan is to make 4.2 a much more public release that is usable on a day to day basis and have 4.3 be the first release that replaces the 3.x series (which would be June 2013). | null | 0 | 1316771241 | False | 0 | c2lzeso | t3_knx2p | null | t1_c2lzeso | t1_c2lz578 | null | 1427636616 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JL235 | null | Some patent trolls put their own money on the line, investing in R&D, to develop good products. They then license them out, to get the money back, which they plow into more R&D. They are worthy of investment, and worthy of being successful.
I'm not saying all are like that, or that there isn't a problem, just that there are examples out there where the patent system _does_ work. | null | 0 | 1316771287 | False | 0 | c2lzev7 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzev7 | t1_c2lz9mp | null | 1427636616 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oorza | null | If you're familiar at all with how Eclipse is developed, the fade change probably took all of 10 seconds. It's almost certainly just a SWT option that they changed. | null | 0 | 1316771307 | False | 0 | c2lzewb | t3_knx2p | null | t1_c2lzewb | t1_c2lvn3w | null | 1427636616 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wildbob | null | You might be barking up the wrong tree as well. The courts interpret statutes passed by Congress, and the statute covering what patentable subject matter is is very broad. The Supreme Court case that established patentability of software is from 1981 (Diamond v. Diehr). If Congress wanted to expressly exclude software, it could have in the 30 years since that decision. In addition, broad judicial interpretation of what is patentable is not a new phenomenon. It also makes sense: patents by their very nature deal with new types of inventions, sometimes radically new designs. Why potentially limit new subject matter if the purpose of the system is to promote innovation.
As an aside, do you think software is included in "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter", particularly the word process, where process includes "process, art or method" That is the statute (35 USC 100 and 101) courts interpret for determining what is patentable subject matter. | null | 0 | 1316771330 | False | 0 | c2lzexi | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzexi | t1_c2lyz4z | null | 1427636616 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kataire | null | Yes. We must sacrifice virgins to the industry gods so they don't get angry and take away our source code access.
That's not how it works, you muppet. Apple is already heading towards security by obscurity (i.e. shutting down end-user access to internals) but they still need other developers to be able to produce software for their stuff or else nobody would buy it. Also, secure DRM is technically impossible (Bob might be Eve) and reverse engineering with a clean room will defeat any level of obscurity, given enough time and determination.
Lastly, remember that (although this may be hard to believe) big corporations are not evil. They're just greedy. There are plenty good economical incentives to be nice. Software patents aren't one of them. | null | 0 | 1316771395 | False | 0 | c2lzf0n | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzf0n | t1_c2lzbp0 | null | 1427636617 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alexeyr | null | Released a year ago: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Eclipse_SDK_4.0_FAQ | null | 0 | 1316771779 | False | 0 | c2lzfke | t3_knx2p | null | t1_c2lzfke | t1_c2lz578 | null | 1427636626 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kataire | null | Having an idea isn't worth jack shit, despite what seedy "founders" on craigslist will tell budding developers.
Patents allow you to ~~extort~~ ask other people to give you money when using the patent matter, but they obviously have to be valid to hold up in court. The trick which is used to circumvent this issue with frivolous patents (i.e. ones which wouldn't hold up in court) is to ask for ridiculous amounts of money and offer dropping the charges for a much smaller sum out of court.
Unless you're made of money, it's usually not a good idea to take the issue to court even if you know the patent is frivolous, especially in a silly legal system like in the US. You have to prove you're innocent (i.e. prove the patent is frivolous), which is really _hard_, even if you are. | null | 0 | 1316771855 | False | 0 | c2lzfob | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzfob | t1_c2lza31 | null | 1427636628 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kataire | null | > Unlike copyrights, inventions are not automatically protected upon conception/expression. Just because you had an idea first, even if you can prove that fact, doesn't mean that others can't take that idea and commercialize on it.
Considering how many people I've met that claim to have come up with the ideas of Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc "first", that is probably a good thing.
Of course given the state of software patents, they could have just described those sites in vague terms and patented the entirety of Web 2.0 with just a handful of filings. | null | 0 | 1316771996 | False | 0 | c2lzfvk | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzfvk | t1_c2lzc3n | null | 1427636640 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UnoriginalGuy | null | How about a compromise: Just stop issuing new patents. All existing patents will be around for the next 20 years but no new patents can be created. | null | 0 | 1316772013 | False | 0 | c2lzfwo | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzfwo | t1_c2lyumj | null | 1427636640 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AvatarOfErebus | null | Thanks! I actually learned something today! :-)
(The "typo" was bothering me as well) | null | 0 | 1316772131 | False | 0 | c2lzg2z | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzg2z | t1_c2lz8t6 | null | 1427636642 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Geofferic | null | Aint nothing there for me. | null | 0 | 1316772179 | False | 0 | c2lzg5c | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzg5c | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636633 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hortinstein | null | can you post to github? ive been cloning into it for 5 min.... | null | 0 | 1316772290 | False | 0 | c2lzgas | t3_kltgu | null | t1_c2lzgas | t3_kltgu | null | 1427636635 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hortinstein | null | got it | null | 0 | 1316772528 | False | 0 | c2lzgn7 | t3_kltgu | null | t1_c2lzgn7 | t1_c2lzgas | null | 1427636644 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JimH10 | null | > Let's say I'm a bank and I lent $50M to a company based on the value of its IP portfolio. Am I just out the money now?
You know, at this moment in history, I'm not all that sympathetic to banks. Perhaps you need another example? | null | 0 | 1316772567 | False | 0 | c2lzgph | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzgph | t1_c2lyumj | null | 1427636654 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | [Hasty generalization fallacy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasty_generalization) meets [Theory of Mind](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind). | null | 0 | 1316773010 | False | 0 | c2lzhbw | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lzhbw | t1_c2lxl1t | null | 1427636664 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wildbob | null | Yep, it is. Black's law dictionary defines it as "For that thing: for it, or them." The term is a bit anachronistic, though. | null | 0 | 1316773016 | False | 0 | c2lzhc6 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzhc6 | t1_c2lz87q | null | 1427636664 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | My toy language, Neat, actually detects when an else is on a different level of indentation than the opening if. Saved my ass at least once. | null | 0 | 1316773280 | False | 0 | c2lzhrf | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lzhrf | t3_kooiy | null | 1427636662 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | foreheadteeth | null | I'm the author of Numeric Javascript. I wrote this so that people can write web apps that do fancy calculations in the browser. I've also tested it on my iphone -- this means you can calculate eigenvectors and do quadratic programming in your phone!
I'm an academic and this is a side project. I hope that it will be useful to redditors who need to write little scientific calculations in their web apps. Please give it a spin and click on the demo. | null | 0 | 1316773743 | False | 0 | c2lziem | t3_koxfh | null | t1_c2lziem | t3_koxfh | null | 1427636669 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | terrdc | null | I think that for the most part a long and intensive interview process will make a bad team.
Instead what it will do is provide a monoculture for a team. A bunch of people who think and act identically. People who will all agree that those other types of people suck and that they are the best.
The reality is that diversity brings a lot of value to teams.
Programming is primarily about determining requirements and multiple different opinions help alot in something like that. | null | 0 | 1316773772 | True | 0 | c2lzigc | t3_korcu | null | t1_c2lzigc | t3_korcu | null | 1427636671 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wildbob | null | >I have yet to see any algorithm of value that has made it through the patent system, all the way to public domain (mostly since USPTO only started granting them in earnest in 1995).
You defeat your own argument on that point. If the PTO only started widely issuing software patents in 1995, of course there would not be any useful algorithms from expired patents, because none of them would have expired yet. When the Pagerank patent expires in 2017, will that meet your definition of an algorithm of value working its way to public domain?
And for clarity, the $500 billion cost estimate is not as damning as it sounds. The number comes from a reduction in the stock price of sued companies, so that figure is unrealized. The study also looked at 5 and 25 day marks after announcement of a suit, we have no way of knowing if the stock recovered on settlement/conclusion of a case. Yes, it is a measurable cost, and one that probably does harm the company, but its not like suits caused $500 billion to be spent in suits that would have gone elsewhere, which is the conclusion I've seen way to many people take from that study. | null | 0 | 1316773801 | False | 0 | c2lzihx | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzihx | t1_c2lz46e | null | 1427636671 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You are a very disturbed person you know that?
Also you are the only person I have ever heard of that develops .NET apps in windows and deploys them on Linux. I have never heard of anybody doing such a silly thing.
But yea you are profoundly disturbed. | null | 0 | 1316773847 | False | 0 | c2lzikf | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2lzikf | t1_c2lrjie | null | 1427636671 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316773855 | False | 0 | c2lziku | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lziku | t1_c2lz9p5 | null | 1427636673 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | altrego99 | null | Why does someone write so much? Do they really expect people to read it all? | null | 0 | 1316773865 | False | 0 | c2lzila | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lzila | t3_ko2wv | null | 1427636673 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lexchou | null | kBluetoothAMPManagerCreatePhysicalLinkResponseAMPDisconnectedPhysicalLinkRequestReceived
from http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/source/tree/HEAD/trunk/i386/include/IOKit/bluetooth/Bluetooth.h | null | 0 | 1316773894 | False | 0 | c2lzimd | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lzimd | t3_klhlv | null | 1427636673 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bucknuggets | null | Ah, no - to be good with recovery on Oracle it's essential that you spend a week doing backup & recovery drills every year for a while until you really learn the ropes.
Whereas with DB2 for example, you could get the equvil familiarity in about a day, and be far less likely to screw up due to human error and really make a mess of things. It's also less likely for you to need to do a recovery in my experience. | null | 0 | 1316773948 | False | 0 | c2lzior | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzior | t1_c2lyz9y | null | 1427636673 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316774019 | False | 0 | c2lzirw | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzirw | t1_c2lwevq | null | 1427636675 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Zarutian | null | *Whoosh* the plane passes over you standing there uncomprehending. | null | 0 | 1316774028 | False | 0 | c2lzisd | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lzisd | t1_c2lz5xj | null | 1427636675 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | name_was_taken | null | Better: Stop issuing them now, all existing patents die in 5 years. That gives everyone time to move on, without tying up the industry for the rest of our lives. | null | 0 | 1316774031 | False | 0 | c2lzisg | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzisg | t1_c2lzfwo | null | 1427636675 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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