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complexmath
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How the compiler interprets the TAB char could be problematic with this rule. Consider: ....if(condition) ........consequent(); TAB more_consequent(); With TAB=4 spaces there would be no warning, TAB=8 spaces a warning would occur.
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frezik
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> The architectural problem lies in HTTP's interaction with TCP congestion control. HTTP flows are generally pretty short (a few packets per transaction), tend to stop and start a lot, and more or less play poorly with the congestion control model. The model works really well for long flows like a FTP download - that TCP stream will automatically adapt to the available bandwidth of the network and transfer at a fairly steady rate for its duration after a little bit of acclimation time. HTTP flows are generally too short to ever acclimate properly. People miss this point a lot when they criticize SPDY. HTTP/0.9 was badly designed for a protocol that was going to be primarily implemented over TCP. So was Gopher, for that matter. Gopher never survived long enough for anyone to start hacking around this flaw, but the HTTP Keep-Alive header and multiple server connections are exactly that sort of hack. Anonymous FTP avoids the problem, but has other complexity issues. SPDY is a hack, too, but a sensible one given HTTP's current dominance.
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00kyle00
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Yes.
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dbingham
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Really, I have a feeling this is going to be a problem with this system. Since it's so easy to put one out there, and pretty hard to have anyone but yourself proof read it before you throw it out there. With no after pushing editing ability or deleting ability, there's no way to have other people review the language and help clean it up unless they're sitting at the computer with you.
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diewhitegirls
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I hate to pull this card, but we live in a much different world now. In '98, I was logging on to usenet and believed that "a/s/l?" was all the verification I needed. For starters, software programming was still in its mythical stage. Even if there was widespread distribution of coding, no one would have any idea what the hell to do with it, save a few. Today, everyone and their brother can figure out how to turn code into functioning software. I blame xkcd. Second, we live in an instant age now. When someone of import sneezes, the world is analyzing it 5 seconds later. In the early stages of software development, there simply was not an easy line of distribution to the masses. Now, you can save it on a USB, go to a Kinko's, anonymously upload and distribute something and the world knows of it in minutes. Look at the Coke recipe...secret since the beginning, until some guy found the recipe and uploaded it a couple of years ago. Finally, you're pointing out something relevant: IP laws are typically REactive, not PROactive. Something's wrong, how the hell do we protect it? Starting from the early 70's, the patentability of software has been a topic of debate, with landmark rulings growing in understanding of the scope of technology. And frankly, there was plenty of software protection before DMCA...that just tried to standardize the laws for this new age we live in. And frankly^frankly, we all know how DMCA hurts more than it helps.
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rhythmguy
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Too many fucking typos in that thing.
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rhtimsr1970
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And while you're in there, make sure to [sign this one too](https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/abolish-tsa-and-use-its-monstrous-budget-fund-more-sophisticated-less-intrusive-counter-terrorism/c7L94bFB).
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kindall
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The Executive Branch has broad latitude in how it enforces the law (the Constitution never states that the Executive Branch is *required* to enforce *any* law, merely that the President "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" -- the definitions of "take Care" "faithfully," and "executed" being conveniently left out) and there may also be latitude in patent law and/or related court rulings that allows the decision to be made as a matter of policy within the USPTO. A common way of handling laws one doesn't like is to simply not allocate any funding to them. Surely the USPTO has examiners dedicated to software patents; one can simply zero that department's budget line item, or else reduce it so far that it makes getting a software patent impractical before technology has moved on. Unless there is a law or court decision *requiring* the USPTO to issue patents for software-related inventions (rather than simply *allowing* them to do so) this is perfectly legal and Contitutional. We see this kind of behavior all the time in police departments, who, after all, have finite resources and thus cannot enforce *every* law or arrest *every* criminal, and so prioritize the law enforcement activities that they believe to be of the most benefit. When a police department decides not to enforce laws against certain activities, because they believe their resources can be better used enforcing other laws, those activities are said to be "decriminalized." Yes, it happens so often there's even a word for it. This is an executive policy decision that can blunt or even negate the impact of a law. Far from being un-Constitutional, this is actually one of the checks and balances included in our system of government. Basically, all branches must be in agreement that a law is good, and agree upon how it should be enforced, before the law will actually have force.
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Mygodjizzbomb
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This is the best thing I've ever learned on reddit. Thank you.
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gamedude999
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His article is talking about teaching methods and how awesome he is compared to regular teachers. It's specifically talking about educating beginners about programming. Moron.
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expertunderachiever
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I'm the guy who had to re-write the tool in C so that we could actually run it on more than one platform. I'm the guy who has been professionally developing software for more than 10 years... I have my software in millions of devices around the world... etc and so on...
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youcanteatbullets
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Reason 19347839 not to build a business dependent solely on another business, especially when that other business is Facebook
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immerc
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Syntactically-significant whitespace solves everything... just so long as everything you ever use preserves that whitespace, and you never accidentally end up with mixed tabs and spaces. If you ever copy and paste code, especially between a website and an editor, syntactically-significant whitespace shows its major flaws. The real answer is to always require an ending token, either braces, an 'end' token, 'fi', etc. That way it's unambiguous to the interpreter, unambiguous to the programmer, and if whitespace isn't preserved when copying and pasting, it's easy to have the editor fix the indentation.
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echidnaman
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Online petitions are slactivism in and of themselves, so it's more like meta-slactivism.
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mcguire
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> ...if I can't see a full-resolution screen shot of the product, I don't bother with that product. Besides, it's not all that hard to photoshop together a screenshot.
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juancn
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It the most cryptic link I've seen in a while. What's Qi?
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mpredosin
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I would sign this petition, but for the love of humanity please fix the grammatical mistakes.
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purplestOfPlatypuses
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I'm no industry expert, but if a company is developing products to license out, they're more of an Autodesk/Microsoft/Bioware/[insert software company here] where they actually sell the licenses to their software. At least in the US, were software patents to disappear, their products would still be protected by copyright and they would lose "barely" anything, because they don't focus on the patent. The value isn't so much in the patent portfolio they have, but in the software they make and license out. A patent troll buys patents and has no software to make or "license"* out really in the software sense. All they can do is demand people "license" their patent so the licensee can write their own software. If the patent disappeared there would be no value left in the company, as it has nothing to sell. Patent trolls are more like expensive tolls on highways where none of the money goes to maintaining the road or whatever else toll money is supposed to be used for. *I'll use "license" for patents to differentiate between licenses for patents and licenses for software.
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MaxGene
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Who the heck is downvoting you? Does nobody read the sidebar? This post is entirely out of place here.
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echidnaman
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A patent isn't an action, though, and the legislation the petition is calling for would merely void the already-issued patents. Having a voided patent wouldn't be a criminal action either. Calder v. Bull does not apply since a patent is not an action, nor would having a voided patent be illegal if this legislation was made. I agree on the need for spell-checking, though.
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cdsmith
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Well, in practice yes. It will, of course, actually be introduced by a member of Congress, but there are so many of them that it's almost sure someone could be found to introduce it. Passing it, of course, is the main problem.
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cdsmith
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> Unless there is a law or court decision requiring the USPTO to issue patents for software-related inventions Indeed that is the case. There is such a law, and there is a related court decision interpreting that law.
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diewhitegirls
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You really don't know how to have a conversation without resorting to insults, do you? It doesn't bolster your case. In fact, I do know what I'm talking about. You brought up copyrights. I pointed out the flaw in copyrights. The implication that you're then intuiting is therefore that my position is patents>copyrights, w.r.t. piracy. That's not my position. IP is a bundle of tools that you utilize to protect your work. Copyright protects media; patents protect innovation. You would utilize those all in effectively protecting your innovation. My position has been that the removal of patents from the software industry would undermine the innovative nature of the industry, thereby decreasing total societal utility. You've gone cherry-picking random tidbits and resorted to name calling as a means of argument. Not really defending yourself well.
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rhtimsr1970
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[Um, I think the site needs some automated cleanup detection.](http://i.imgur.com/xFbOr.png)
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axilmar
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> Which has the exact problem you described in your example. No. If I used references, I'd use them from the beginning, and so, I'd be aware that they shouldn't be modified, so I'd either make them const or not touch it inside a function. > In C++ people always choose at design time whether a type is value or polymorphic, and using it the other way around is almost always incorrect. Not true at all. Take MFC, for example: its control classes are polymorphic, yet when I make a dialog I use them as values: they are embedded into the parent dialog as value-type members. This saves me infinite amount of pain, because I don't have to instantiate every control with 'new', and it's faster than if every control was allocated separately on the heap. But I can also use those classes separately allocated on the heap, if I wished, for example, when the GUI creation is dynamic. Another example: component-based programming, relevant to video games. With C++, I can take the various component classes and mix them as I see fit, in a aggregate with fixed members as value type members. When I allocate new instances of the aggregate, all the aggregate's members are allocated together with the parent component. But some classes require components to be defined at run time (for example, entities defined dynamically), and therefore I can allocate those components as separate heap blocks, as needed in the game's course. I cannot do the above with D, because D separates value types and reference types. I have to choose values types and be sure 100% I'd never need creation of those types dynamically, or try to be on the safe side, making everything a class and lose performance and ease of use. Furthermore, D's structs and classes have the same concepts, but they are named and executed differently in each case: structs have blits, which are nothing more than copies, and classes have copy constructors, which, again, are nothing more than copies. Not only that, but, in the case of structs, the programmer cannot define code that runs before the copy constructor. The programmer can only define postblit actions. This is extremely stupid, and entirely non-orthogonal to and consistent with the concept of overriding and copying. A programming language could have the same ideas but with a much simpler design. It would have a single record type (i.e. struct or class), an optional attribute that defined how this class was to be used (by value or by reference), and copy constructors that were managed in the same way for either the value type or the reference type. The programmer would have to know less concepts and modification/adaptation of the software would be much easier.
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FrankBattaglia
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Who said anything about the DMCA? Guess again.
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robbs
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What about this is noteworthy? edit: Is there anything in this version that's more noteworthy than being able to convert for loops?
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calrogman
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So that's a yes then? */ducks*
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JimH10
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I was thinking more along the line of some hangin's.
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cdsmith
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It would be one thing if there were *just* a couple of typographical errors. Sadly, that's not the case. The entire petition is confusing and unclear due to being riddled with errors. The worse ones are saying "patentable" when it means "unpatentable", and saying "have become a tool of antitrust" when it apparently means "a tool of monopolies/trusts". These things completely invert the meaning, and they do cast the position as one held by uneducated people and unclear thinkers. Since this can't be fixed, the best we can hope for is that this goes away and advocacy by other channels is heard instead.
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xTRUMANx
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> Well one way to tell if someone is passionate, is when he has rebuilt the wheel FTFY. Also: > RayScript, RaysCommons, RaysSigner, Raysforge You should rename yourself narcissistray.
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Harold_Ancell
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Released today: [The Code](http://www.lambdassociates.org/download/index.htm) [The direct link to the code](http://www.lambdassociates.org/Download/download.htm) [The Documentation](http://www.lambdassociates.org/doc.htm)
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FrankBattaglia
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>there may also be latitude in patent law and/or related court rulings that allows the decision to be made as a matter of policy within the USPTO. In fact, there is law and court rulings explicitly to the contrary. The USPTO only has what is known as procedural "rule making authority," but lacks substantive authority; they are permitted to govern the procedure for obtaining a patent, but they are proscribed from having any effect on a person's right to obtain a patent per se. >A common way of handling laws one doesn't like is to simply not allocate any funding to them. The President does not determine funding levels; Congress does. >Unless there is a law or court decision requiring the USPTO to issue patents for software-related inventions (rather than simply allowing them to do so) There is such a law (35 USC ss 101-103), and there are such court decisions (most recently, *In re Bilski*). >We see this kind of behavior all the time in police departments, who, after all, have finite resources and thus cannot enforce every law or arrest every criminal, and so prioritize the law enforcement activities that they believe to be of the most benefit. That works in situations involving prosecutorial discretion, but not in situations where such haphazard enforcement deprives the people of guaranteed property rights. 35 USC 102 is a "shall" statute, meaning the executive has no discretion in the matter. >Far from being un-Constitutional, this is actually one of the checks and balances included in our system of government. Basically, all branches must be in agreement that a law is good, and agree upon how it should be enforced, before the law will actually have force. The Executive's opportunity to question a law is at the time of signing. The Executive has no authority to retroactively veto standing legislation. Were that not the case, we would have a sea change in law every time a new President was elected. Thankfully, that is not the system the Constitution sets up. I'm sorry, but while your post is well-phrased, it is filled with legal inaccuracies.
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cdsmith
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Oh, yes, the plight of the insanely wealthy... Seriously, these sorts of things are part of the risk of making investments. Laws change all the time, and sometimes those changes negatively impact some people. Is it really so unthinkable that a change might be made that hurts people with money and political power, for once? Yes it is hard to imagine, I agree...
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x86_64Ubuntu
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THIS ! When managers say passionate, they mean passionate in doing the job the company requires the way the company wants it in the beauracratic fashion. Alot of companies end up turning passion off, for instance, why should I be passionate about writing maintainable code when management backs up and supports individuals who have no concept of best practices.
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FeepingCreature
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Point is that the article is not supposed to be an _example_ of his teaching methodology in action. Dumbass.
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rpgFANATIC
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That's the saddening story of too many software projects. Great project comes along. Politics gets in the way. Great project gets abandoned
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grauenwolf
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While the training was a bear, WinForms to WPF didn't require a full port. I just updated my app one screen at a time as time permitted. Hell, I was even working on a way to host WPF in an old VB 6 application. It was messy, but it worked.
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mazerrackham
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$48k is the initial licensing cost for unlimited-user Enterprise Edition on a single core (although most chipsets have a licensing factor of .75 to .25), and annual support is small percentage of that. However, anyone who licenses Oracle products without negotiating discounts of at least 50% is not even trying.
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If you're referring to US v. MS, that's a whole 'nother can of worms, friend. I am not nearly educated enough to debate the merits of that clusterfuck. My opinion was always that MS screwed up badly and were lucky to survive. Their defense of "innovation" and "no money from IE" was insulting, when the real problem was in their manipulative distribution methods by undercutting the competition. One or twenty bad eggs shouldn't screw it up for everyone else.
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sparklyteenvampire
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I disagree. This isn't Stack Overflow; posts about the software *business* are also relevant here. Lots of us are interested in how to monetize our work, and keeping ourselves from getting screwed is a big part of that. Especially if we're going to have anything to do with Facebook development.
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The html site is just an export from Keynote, blame Apple.
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gospelwut
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Because that's how it spits it back to me? I have to use the exposed APIs from a hosted service. I mean, once I wrote a few LINQ methods instead of fucking around with CAML it wasn't that bad. The API services are a bit strange too though (have to send empty XML query elements to get "all" columns, crazy internal names, etc).
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whyunofeelguilty
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The White House should just start a Reddit. You can actually create a reddit from your own domain...
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dbingham
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So, due to the failure of language in mine, I'm begging them to take it down. Meanwhile, [Hacker News](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3028999) is working on one with more coherent language and grammar. I suggest we all collaborate on the new one and then sign that one, when it appears. And next time, I'm going to stop myself from late night fiddling with a new system. Especially if it's a government made one where I could end up speaking for a ton of people.
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This is absolutely stupid. The rest of the world doesn't give a f*ck about software patents and does very well with that stance.
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mazerrackham
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You can negotiate unlimited license agreements, but there is not a fixed cost, it is negotiated based on your current license usage and the expected growth of your environment, and it is only for the initial licenses. AFAIK there is no unlimited SUPPORT agreement offered.
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phaker
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So warn if indentation depends on TAB width?
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Pxtl
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The problem is that UI design patents are the ones that are the most notorious for being spectacularly vague and destructive to the industry. I mean, look at the one-stroke-per-character patent. It wasn't a patent or copyright on a specific dialect of grafitti-like languages, but on the whole idea of representing each character with a single stroke of the pen. That's not UI design, that's a *vague idea* of a concept.
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That actually bothered me. It's still wrong to use 'therefor' in that sentence. The whole petition is riddled with grammar and spelling errors.
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cdsmith
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> However, the problems extend beyond that, and Microsoft and Google and IBM and Apple represent their own problems to others. I know this will sound biased to someone not familiar with the facts here, but don't put Google in that list. Google has *never*, not once in its existence, filed an offensive patent action against any other entity. As long as Sergey Brin and Larry Page have anything close to a controlling interest in the company, it won't happen in the future, either. Just because they are a big company doesn't mean they are part of the problem.
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gospelwut
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Where we were you 7 months ago? WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE ME? /sob
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Same Numair Faraz Motorola insider tells all about the fall of a technology icon http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/26/motorola-insider-tells-all-about-the-fall-of-a-technology-icon/
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No I mean you will never have a dynamic type unless explicity called for. I was responding to your statement "and likely tons of the use of dynamic running around under the covers as well." There should in fact be no dynamic types under the covers.
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FrankBattaglia
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>If you're referring to US v. MS Strike two. You're really revealing your hand, here.
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是吗?
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Piracy? You can steal existing source code, but not an idea, so "patents > copyright, w.r.t." is complete nonsense. > patents protect innovation This claim is just too insanely stupid to comment. > the removal of patents from the software industry would undermine the innovative nature of the industry Oh good lord. GTFO of the bible belt. The rest of the world is doing perfectly fine without software patents.
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novagenesis
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If I decide to start a Kava Cafe (something I contemplated for a while) and a bank gave me funding, everyone is taking a business risk. If the day after the Cafe opens, the state passes a law banning Kava. Oh well, money down the drain. That's why they charge interest that is so much higher than the interest they pay. Risk. There's a lot of defaults. This would be another.
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nascentt
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Wow. What a jerk. Have you not seen job applications and emails to corporations these days? There's no formality anymore.
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Patents give you monopoly rights guaranteed by the law.
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tobycatlin
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The whole of Facebook stinks. Zuckerberg is billed as some programming and business genius when all he is a kid that got lucky. If he had done exactly the same thing a bit earlier or later facebook would have died with every other crazy website idea.
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shott85
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[File > Open, every damn time](http://i.imgur.com/wE8LY.png)
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NancyGracesTesticles
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Wait a second. Are you telling me that sitting at my desk and clicking a couple of buttons isn't a valid substitute for *actually doing something*?!? I though supporting a cause was supposed to be a no-risk, no-cost, no-work endeavor.
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gospelwut
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It's strange though. In some cases, it's okay. If I just sat around with C#3.5 and SQL it wouldn't be that bad. Hell, I hate web development but MVC3 is admittedly very good. It seems that many of the things that come out of certain divisions are generally okay, and the stuff that comes out of their more IT divisions (I used to work as a sysadmin), haunt my nightmares forever (SharePoint, Server2003, AD, CMS, motherfucking Access, etc). Though, to be fair, if somebody can name a CMS platform that didn't violate them I will give them an internet $1.
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gamedude999
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Double dumbass on you.
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NancyGracesTesticles
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>FYI the subreddit [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/WhiteHousePetitions/ needs more activity Your use of the word "activity" is ironic for something specifically designed to be used by people who want to do approximately nothing towards the causes they believe in. >I clicked buttons. I'm an activist!
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extremeanger
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This should be reposted more broadly than r/programming. The depth and breadth of Zuckerberg and company's anti-privacy ethics-free business practices needs more light shone upon it.
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krunk7
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I'm wondering if it was even written by someone fluent in english.
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dbingham
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I'm totally and completely with you, actually. I'm begging them to take mine down, and you can probably spot my bright red face from space. Hacker News is talking about collaborating to write one with better language. I suggest we all work together to create a good one. And then shift over to that one. Edit: Okay, so if I'd actually been awake and writing with the intention of publishing, it might have looked more like this. Reddit grammaticos, take it apart! >Direct the US Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents >The US Patent system is badly broken with respect to software patents. Patents are being issued to companies for “inventions” that are, in fact, common knowledge included in any introductory software textbook. The result is that the large software corporations are buying up reams of patents and using them to bully small, innovative companies out of business or into paying ridiculous licensing fees. >Quite apart from encouraging innovation, patents are now stifling it. >The software industry is one of the few industries still strong in America. Even in a time of recession, there are not enough computer programmers to fill all the available positions. Startup companies are forming and growing readily. But if every line of code written brings with it a potential violation of someone else's intellectual property, this will cease to be the case. >To solve this problem, we petition the Obama Administration to direct the Patent office to cease issuing software patents and to void all existing software patents. With these two steps, those of us in the software industry can stop worrying about mutually assured patent destruction and get back to doing what we do best. Also, if anyone else wants to step up to the plate, by all means do! I don't think I'm the best person to be writing this by a long shot. Just edited to add some fixes and changes suggested on Hacker News. At Revision 2.
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00kyle00
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C++0x to the rescue!!! #include <iostream> template<class T> void iff(bool cond, T if_true) { if(cond) if_true(); } template<class T, class U> void iff(bool cond, T if_true, U if_false) { if(cond) if_true(); else if_false(); } int main() { bool cond = true; iff(cond, []{ std::cout << "hello"; }, []{ std::cout << "world"; }); }
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morpheousmarty
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Some men want to watch the world burn.
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FrankBattaglia
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>we live in a much different world now. In '98, I was logging on to usenet and believed that "a/s/l?" was all the verification I needed. For starters, software programming was still in its mythical stage. Even if there was widespread distribution of coding, no one would have any idea what the hell to do with it, save a few. Also, are you serious? Are you confusing 1998 with 1985? That's the most ridiculous defense of software patents I've heard yet, and I've been engaged in the topic for years.
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krunk7
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Resubmit with proper grammar and proof reading and I'll sign. :P
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MaxGene
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Well, the subreddit itself disagrees with you. >Some seem to think this reddit is for "links that programmers might find interesting or funny". No. It's for programming links. Programming. *Programming*. **Programming**. No matter which way you slice it, this post isn't programming and doesn't fit in with the well-established direction of the subreddit.
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phughes
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Touché :-)
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joequin
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A lot of the companies that innovate, use the patents offensively as well as defensively. These large companies both innovate and stifle smaller competition. Other than google, there aren't many giants (none that I can think of) that would be on the side of actual patent reform.
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jtmengel
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This was excellent for me because I'm just this week getting my girlfriend up to speed with Javascript so she can use jQuery. Thanks a bunch for that link
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rasori
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Interesting that none of these underpinning algorithms or data structures have been patented, isn't it? The point we're making against patents is that they're horribly implemented for software. If you really want to patent software, sure, do it, but it should last for about 2 years. That's about the maximum amount of time it will take for anyone who wants to compete with your algorithm to engineer nearly the same thing on their own, but as it stands you get another 15 years of monopoly on top of that for no apparent reason, as after that 2 year point it hits the realm of "common knowledge" and becomes one of those underpinning algorithms that is essential for so many other programs. The reason we make the point that it hasn't happened is specifically because in a field which is advancing as rapidly as software is, *any patent system "supporting" it* ***should*** *allow for the speed of development by significantly shortening the period the patent is effective.* Imagine, using your own example, if C++ had been patented for 17 years. I see an elite few paying for licensing fees *(if licensing was even available)*, while mostly we'd have wound up with multiple other companies either continuing to use older languages *or worse, inventing their own.* The fragmentation of the industry inherently slows the progress of it.
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Section 8 - Powers of Congress "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
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captainAwesomePants
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Is it weird that because you started that with "Yes, " I assumed it was sarcastic and had to read through it a few times to make sure your statement made rational sense on its face?
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twotime
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that seems like by far the simplest and most reliable solution.
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complexmath
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Possible, though I can see people getting upset if the code appears correctly indented in their editor.
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diewhitegirls
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Frank: Then I've got no idea what you're talking about. smcj: The end result of patents is to incentivize the innovator to innovate, by offering protections for their innovation. What are you missing? All: I have opinions. My opinions are rooted in studying the economic incentives of IP and how to shift policy to create the most beneficial outcome for society. I am admittedly shaky in the software realm, but I do have a bit of information on the subject. All in all, the whole realm of software and IPR is shaky and it's the reason debates like this exist. However, it is my OPINION, based on the end-game models that I've seen that patents are an absolutely necessary part of the IPR bundle for software. Eliminating patents leads to over-entry, higher costs (free is not free, Econ 101) and lower social utility. I'm always open to hearing better arguments; I just haven't seen a single one yet. Please share it with me.
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nascent
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> If I used references, I'd use them from the beginning, and so, I'd be aware that they shouldn't be modified, so I'd either make them const or not touch it inside a function. Right but your problem came from not using a reference type in the beginning not, "the struct vs class dichotomy requires upfront knowledge of how a type will be used." And so is not an example of such an issue. > A programming language could have the same ideas but with a much simpler design. It would have a single record type (i.e. struct or class), an optional attribute that defined how this class was to be used (by value or by reference) I disagree with this. But you are also leaving out the polymorphic switch. And best I can tell your example isn't about value vs polymorphic, but value vs. reference and for that you do have struct. Structs have a reference semantic through pointers and [ref-counting](http://www.d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_typecons.html#RefCounted).
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kindall
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Thanks for the corrections.
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smeezy
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Sorry, that was a misquote. Thank you for pointing that out!
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Koreija
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[Mercury IT-Consulting](http://mccportal.mercurycc.com/), [Mercury Software and Technologies](http://www.mercurysofttech.in/), [Mercury Development](http://www.mercdev.com/), [Mercury Software Inc.](http://www.mercurysw.com/), [Mercury Software Ltd.](http://www.mercurysoftware.ie/), [Mercury Taxi Management Software](http://mercurytaxisoftware.co.uk/), [Mercury Software](http://www.mercury-soft.com), [Mercury Mail Server](http://www.pmail.com/overviews.htm), [Mercury Crystal Structure Visualisation](http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/products/mercury/)...
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gospelwut
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Isn't the title the PMs get? Wait, but I (have to) listen to them. `/okay.jpg`
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BrianAtDTS
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In FOSS, currency is number of users. If no one is paying attention to your branch, it might as well be dead. All these new features they are building around the core actually hurts their overall position as they will now never be able to integrate into patches from MariaDB or Percona or any other major branch because it will immediately GPL all their "enterprise" features. In other words they are cashing out their future in the FOSS database world by adopting this strategy. If they had stuck with MySQL's original strategy, they would be a much better position. It looks like they are going to "Hudson" their MySQL product by trying to squeeze profits out what has always been a FOSS product. Seriously, why would I choose a non-FOSS solution when I can have the same FOSS solution elsewhere?
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ricardo_sdl
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The obvious question here is: is Ammy hot?
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dmercer
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I appreciate the reply. Did not know about q[letter] macro recording. I thought "q" was for quitting (as in ":q!"). As for the grep, I imagine there's a plugin somewhere that has what I want, I just don't know exactly how the hole Vim community works. I don't just want a search, but the ability to click on a result in the search and have it open the file and jump right to the place in the file where the match was found. I really do appreciate your help, though.
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Ahh yeah I see your point. That and the one click to buy button are good examples of where it an go wrong.
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H-Resin
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Can anybody explain to me why this is an issue? I'm really just ignorant to it, and I work in a patent office where we get a *few* of these, although not many. This is how I make money, lol. Although, the most we see is Apple suing Nokia. If this is the motive for this, then I think I can get behind that, because Apple just seem to be huge dicks
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gospelwut
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This will come in handy in the future. I'd seriously buy you a dinner for the time you have saved me. If you're ever in Chicago, let me know so I can ~~viola~~get you the best Italian beef you have ever had.
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IRQBreaker
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WTF? How is this a problem? Look, if you use the braces, "{" "}" as intended this is never a problem. if ( a == 1 ) { if ( b == 2 ) { do_stuff(); } } else { a_not_equal_to_one(); } TLDR: USE. THE. FUCKING. BRACES!
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gospelwut
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I don't understand how it can be so universally reviled but loved by all non-programmers/IT. CMS are like the herpes of the tech world.
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