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That entire article rests on the assumption that software patents have some value outside of the ability to sue someone else with them or to ward of lawsuits by someone else. They want you to think of a software patent like it's a piece of music or a motion picture. They're just like Netflix or Spotify for patents! I don't know how anyone working for that company can sleep at night.
Legal battle? I thought Google and Facebook haven't sued each other yet. Have they?
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Patents cover implementations right? EFF should put up a random obfuscated legalese letter generator that says basically "all the code claimed, but not acknowledged, to be offending the patent mentioned has been removed. If you sign this obfuscated, random, draconian non-compete non-disclosure agreement, we will allow you to visit our offices and inspect the code for any real patent offense"

that should take care of most of the small trolls that affect companies just starting up.

didn't vote as i never went trhu this.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2744190
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Do a quick search online and you'll see there's a long history around this patent and ongoing litigation with Microsoft, Ebay, Shopzilla, etc. Have it ready for your attorneys and help them get up to speed quickly. Manatt is basically giving people only 2-3 weeks to pay up until they say they'll file the lawsuit, so they're banking on your not having the time to get your stuff together. Like I said, nice people. Welcome to the mafioso world which is patent trolls.
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No.
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Traditionally, dominant groups have often invoked (fake) claims of a naturally fixed order to protect, justify and market the status quo. For example, this line of reasoning has historically been used to assert that black people are a subhuman race incapable of higher intellectual thought and that women shouldn't be allowed to vote on the grounds that they are immature and hysterical by nature.

Another reason why I believe most of the omnipresent assumptions about a natural order are essentially bullshit is that I know quite a few men and women who violate these supposedly biological gender roles. They are not sick, they are not mutants, they are not troubled individuals with identity problems and they're not trying to be rebels. It's just that they don't care about their socially prescribed attributes.

Lastly, there have been quite a lot of experiments in psychology to successfully illustrate that expectations actually shape your capabilities. Not just the conscious idea of identity itself but indeed capabilities that were always thought to be innate are now found to be subject to variations stemming from motivation and expectation.

Recently I read about a study where participants were asked to do cognitive tasks that traditionally have a strong gender bias, for example spatial orientation. The results were as expected. However, the researchers then did a second run with a second group, explaining beforehand which tasks usually favor women and which tasks were better performed by men. The catch was: the experimenters lied, they actually switched the descriptions around. When this second group then took the tests, they performed according to the (now inverted) "expectations".

So I do have a few pointers that helped me arrive at this "dogmatic" position. So what's your position? What's the actual background of your suggested possibility?
> They have some idea that August 2 is not really a hard deadline ... What happens on August 2 is that the United States of America runs out of cash.

This seems to conflict with this article [1]:

> But several new reports — from UBS, Barclays and Wells Fargo — have cast doubt on that estimate. Analysts have said that daily tax receipts have been higher than anticipated and that the Treasury has quite a bit of cash on hand.

It only adds a few extra days, to be sure, but the deadline is not as hard as the OP makes it out to be.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-could-avoi...
I'm not sure that the Java bytecodoe-to-Dalvik compiler actually completely Java SE 6 compatible (eg that it is a superset), but I think that is irrelevant since their licensing actually prohibits supersets. This is why Sun was able to force Microsoft to discontinue their JVM; it had nonstandard features in it, and therefore their licensing wouldn't be valid.
diolpah, my grandparent here is why you were downvoted. Nowadays, the atmosphere around anything related to gender is super-charged, and people are hyper-super-extra-sensitive to anything that could even slightly be construed as debasing towards women, so even something as simple as observing measured data sounds to them like overt sexism.
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I think a lot of CS departments would be happy to aim at 50/50 gender parity, if their application pipeline were anywhere near close enough to support it. When applicant ratios are in the range of 90% male, it's very hard to get more than 20-30% women in the incoming class, even if you really go out of your way to aim at gender balance.

It took med schools a few decades too, over which they first removed overt barriers (like "medicine isn't for women" attitudes among faculty), then successfully convinced more women to apply, and then finally accepted many of those applying women. CS's troubles are complex, but I think one of the stickiest ones is that interest/disinterest in studying CS seems to develop around high-school (same as studying math), so the imbalance somehow has to be addressed at the pre-university level. Med-school doesn't seem to have the same differentiate-by-age-15 aspect.
Admittedly I stopped reading the article when I got to "IV isn't a patent troll, we're simply just a big patent market connecting suppliers to consumers"

No, you're not simply a 'market'. A market doesn't come and sue you for buying your milk somewhere else.
Let's get (even more) serious for a second. If we get close to the end of the deadline, there will be a vote. Anyone who votes not to raise the ceiling knows perfectly well that in the ensuing fallout, they're in a lot more trouble than just losing the next election.
Do you have any sources about how GIF patents ended up doing a lot of collateral damage? Wikipedia says that .png was invented in response but was that really damaging?
Superbly stated. This is absolutely a correct assessment. This is pure posturing (free commercials) for all the elected officials involved.
Goes well with the academic background, to be honest.
Also, there's value in sticking your head in the sand since if you know a patent exists but don't think you're infringing but then lose an infringement case, you're liable for treble damages (IIRC, IANAL, etc).

Every employee handbook I've seen that has mention of patents has said ``thou shalt not go patent surfing, and if you do, only ever talk to your patent attorney. Oh, but do file lots of patent applications!''
In many ways this is a good thing. For the past several decades our governments have been merrily spending themselves deeper and deeper into debt with the full permission of the electorate and nary a hint that this was anything other than some vague problem for the distant future.

We talk about default as though it's something the US can easily avoid, but we can only easily avoid that if we get our shit together NOW. And that's simply not going to happen if we continue to toss the hot potato to the next generation at every opportunity. We don't just need to get the deficit under control a little, we need to get to a surplus, so we can pay down the debt. And the only way we can get there is to cut spending by a lot and probably also to raise taxes.

In short, fundamentally this isn't a new problem, and it's seriousness isn't new either, it's visibility is the newness.
Just a further point, often the both you and the customer agree that there is a problem that needs addressing, but the customer is not sure how it should be solved. Alice from accounting wants the system to do X, while Bob from compliance needs it to do Y, which directly conflicts with X. Finally Carol in management has determined that they are not going to pay for a solution anyway.

This is exactly the 'crap' that you need to shield your developers from. Shielding developers is a lot deeper than just ignoring requirements.
I own both of those games, and after play Agricola, I've decided that it's just too aggravating (too many tough tradeoff decisions) but Power Grid is a favorite, and in a lot of ways, if you are interested in playing Monopoly, you'll find Power Grid to be 100x more fun.
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You might want to finish the article.
>The average salary for a software engineer is $58,000/yr.

That seems awfully low. I would never have stayed in this business if I was making anything close to that.
Software patents effectively cover features rather than implementations, so a patent troll (or a judge or jury) doesn't need to look at your source code to determine if you violated their patent: they really just need to be able to use the application enough to determine what it does.

Of course, the issue of if you violated the patent or not, or if you removed any offending source code, is pretty much immaterial to the patent lawsuit issue; they can sue you either way, and if they want to take it to court, you'll have to pay a truckload of money to defend yourself, unless you want a summary judgment issued against you.
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I'm not sure I understand your initial question. A feature of an app can infringe a patent (e.g. In-app Purchase), therefore removing the feature removes the infringement. The code implementing the feature is irrelevant to the patent owner.

Let's suppose you've implemented in-app purchase in a way that infringes a patent. If this feature is simply hidden in the app and not accessible by a user, but the code is still compiled into the app, then the app is no longer infringing. In other words, just because my app links against a library (Apple's?) that implements your patented thingy, my app is not in a de facto infringing state.
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Hate to be a naysayer, but there is really a negligible amount of money in debt counseling. It's the finance equivalent of shoe repair. Yes, a few small well positioned operations can make a living on it, but no large company is going to bother with that business. Clients are flaky, have no money and like to do chargebacks. Every situation is a bit different, there's a lot of customer service issues and most people who would be low maintenance customers are do-it-yourselfers. Good luck!
I'm pretty sure we all welcome constructive criticism here :) If you want examples of HTML5 evolving beyond "simple demo" state, http://www.chromeexperiments.com/ is filled with examples that range from "complex demo" to "modern flash game" to "I can't believe its not OpenGL!". http://www.pirateslovedaisies.com/ is a pretty legit HTML5 tower defense game. I'm sure you've noticed Angry Birds in the Chrome app store. Game engine-wise, Impact and Akihabara are both proven for quality pixel art games. While there's no Kongregrate for HTML5 (yet), professional quality HTML5 games definitely already exist, and if you seriously want to see solo devs putting out quality work, you'll find it.

It -seems- like your beef's not actually with the state of HTML5, but with what you're seeing submitted to this site. Which I guess is fine, but more focused criticism would be a more better way to help push everyone forward.

Personally, I just like seeing people make things :) Or I'm just reaaaally laissez-faire.
Hey all, just wanted to chime in about us using this at Nodejitsu. Hook.io makes it much easier to have a huge mesh network of drones for us and greatly simplified our management code for child processes on our stack. If you are looking for an easy way to have a mesh network or a master/slave network Hook.io will be great.

As for personal use, Hook.io is amazing since it is like a mesh network and IPC event bus put together. I create modules, a way of using deamons supporting features through hooks makes life easier and allows them to be services kept alive out of my process.
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Thanks!

Will do tomorrow.
I'm an Erlanger and I like this. I don't think Node will ever replace Erlang for what Erlang is good for. However it definitely is doing a great job taking concurrent programming mainstream.

If anyone is looking for a fun hack, it looks like creating a CouchDB _changes hook would take only a few lines of code, as the hard work is already done: https://github.com/iriscouch/follow
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I recommend listening to the EconTalk Podcast episode on this subject, it's very interesting and informative, as usual: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/07/hennessey_on_th.htm...
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see why it's my job to write to my senator or congressperson merely to tell them to do their job. I believe this is serious. But I'm looking for a more tangible action than writing an empty letter.

What if we made a website where we voted on a "default default", that is - if we collectively voted on a proposal that should go into effect if they haven't arrived at a compromise that they like better?
They are not trying to explain scientific thought. they are trying to explain the theory they are experimenting to prove.

They cover your 1st topic fine (read only 1st and 2nd links from the page. second link was the best in my humble opinion). Your other 3 topics are just required if explaining scientific thought model.
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I don't mean it in anyway as insulting: when a group of guys are together there are in-jokes, playful physical competitiveness (especially when they all know each other well) and talk of girls. All fine things, but spending a year with a bunch of guys in the same room during the workday can get a little draining. If I'm having a bad day it gets difficult when there isn't another female around for support.

To clarify: I love working in any environment where I get on with everyone, regardless of gender/choice of music/language. But it's harder if it's a guy I don't get on with, or there is tension of any kind. Having another girl around to offset that makes a huge difference. Wouldn't it be the same if you're a guy and your workplace is all women?
Yes, this would be awesome! Then we could subscribe to NPM and get Hook.io events every-time a new package was published to NPM.

Wrapping existing libraries in a Hook, is very very simple ( by design ). :-)
Ha! I read the same piece from The Telegraph! It's very well done.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/...
This whole debacle illustrates the best and the worst of democracy. You have a huge jumbo trying to do a safe landing, and there are copilots who are intent to driving it into the ditch before the next election. Your country can suffer one GWB, but the Tea Party is another kettle of fish. They'll burn down the house and then regret it.
I don't get it. What's this for?
It's possible to do the same thing over thunderbolt too.
Both protocols give you memory mapped access to the remote computers memory. You can read and write anything on the other system. Great if you're building a distributed system and want shared memory.

Not so great for the average desktop/server environment.
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"This is a bit of hack" to describe a solution that is very fragile and subject to breaking, or just ignores good practices.

Technically, you could argue that this is in fact the original usage, as the solution's fragility typically is due to ignoring the conventional semantics and exploiting the actual underlying implementation of something.
Interesting stats. There appear to be as many Mac users as Linux users, and Linux users pay 2x more than Mac users.

I guess Mac users spend all their money on OS upgrades :)
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Well what the article is advocating is "management by exception" - basically a callback system. Where as what you seem to be arguing is a polling system.

It sounds like you want to regularly poll each of the developers, asking; "How's it going? Are you done yet? Any problems?". Where as the articles advocates a callback system, where the developer tells the manager that an event has occurred; "I'm done. I have a question"

In general a callback system is always going to make more effective use of resources than a polling system, both in software design and in management.

All this theory is fine. However the practicality is, some developers are never going to work in a 'callback' manner. You need to prompt and ask them and occasionally pull them out of whatever rabbit hole they have disappeared down. Others are going to absolutely chafe if you keep asking them for progress updates. The difference between an ok manager and a great one lies in being able to understand the human side of things and deal with each person as an individual, rather than just blindly following one theory or another.
I agree it's tricky to do anything about it without seeming absurd, but I can also see the motivation. One semester isn't very long, so it's easy for incoming knowledge to completely swamp whatever a course could teach in 14 weeks. But if the goal of CS101 is to put people on track to a CS degree, and the purpose of grading is to give some indication of performance, having CS101 grades completely dominated by incoming knowledge rather than some sort of signal of ability-to-learn seems unfortunate.

On the other hand, this is true to some extent in other fields. For example, hobbyist writers, which these days includes kids who write long-form blog pieces, will tend to breeze through introductory portions of humanities curricula, since grades are often dominated by simple writing ability. If you can already throw together a coherent 5-page essay without having to learn how as a freshman, you're way ahead of the average 1st-year.
It's true that Sun was pissed, and maybe a bit surprised about how different Dalvik was but it is misleading to say it was a total surprise.

Google had been putting a lot of effort into the Apache Harmony class libraries, and most people were expecting them to either use one of the conventional open source JVM implementations, or perhaps one of their own.

The approach Dalvik took was a big surprise, but no one was surprised that they weren't using JavaME.
It's a somewhat antagonistic statement, and those can rankle.
I think all the indie devs that are getting letters from lodsys would tend to disagree with you about whether or not it's a 'real' issue.
It's your job because they represent you. They aren't psychic - if you don't tell them your views, they'll listen to those who do. Ultimately, pretty much every politician wants to stay in power above all else. They fear losing an election more than cozying up to special interests (for the most part).
Or, start investing while people are getting nervous.

Honestly, while the tea party is strong, my feeling is that the majority of the Republican party are somewhat reasonable conservatives who actually like having an economy. They'll use the softness in the stock market to reinforce why they need additional tax cuts or other concessions and ride to the rescue when they 'miraculously' come to a compromise days before the limit.

Such is the state of politics today.
Yeah those Erlang cooties. ewwwwwwww.
I found it amusing that Caribbean Banking Centres own so much of the debt. Didn't realise there was that much capital there.
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Rather, it's just as hard, but not as certain when it will hit. If you're speeding towards a brick wall at 60mph and you think you're 1000 feet away, and someone says "aha, you might be as much as 1500 feet away!", this does not mean the brick wall is suddenly a feather pillow.
It is about the salesman, because it is you who has the choice to either stay at home or go out and sell. People will always buy, but they wont buy from you if you sit on you ass all day.

It isn't some secret, sales motivation comes from survival: if you sell you eat, if you don't, well, you don't eat (and if you got kids they don't eat either).

You have to realize that the sale is about you: your food, your car payment, rent, dipers, hell even the power bill.

The more you see it like that, the less likely you are to pussy out and be a chicken.

I hope that explains it well.

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A better question is: If Steve Jobs started talking to you about a revolutionary idea that was going to change the world, what would you do? Chances are, you'd nod your head, smile, and go about your day.

And then, a few years later, you'll hear about this super successful company run by some guy called Steve Jobs, and you'll be kicking yourself for not getting in on the ground floor of his operation.

Except that you couldn't recognize that kind of success early unless you had experience investing in that kind of person.

And you'd only hear about his smashing success, not the long hard road fraught with peril and failure that he travelled in order to arrive where he is today.

Nothing comes for free.
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If you are using bittorrent, you are almost certainly uploading.

I'm also not sure that they never prosecuted anyone for downloading is actually a sufficient amount of evidence that it is legal. I've never heard of anyone get prosecuted for uploading just one song or one movie, that doesn't mean that it would be legal to do so.
Otherwise, ignore it until it blows up and/or there's an election.

How do you know which side deserves blame for the blow up if you don't pay attention to who did what in the lead up to the crisis?

Or is the logic here as simple as "if blowup, vote for non-incumbent"?
Is this sort of thing an issue in other countries. I'm a tech founder in Australia. I don't think we have the same level of anxiety about being sued for unknowingly breaching a software patent. Can anyone comment on this? Is our patent system different or can we expect to see our industry similarly affected in the future?
How can you be sure? There are other people pretty sure of the opposite

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2809775
Software patents effectively cover features rather than implementations

No, software patents cover ways to implement features. Amazon does not have a patent on "buying something with one click"; the patent deals with one specific way to let people buy something with one click (I'm guessing cookies and stored shipping preferences? I've never read the patent in question).

if they want to take it to court, you'll have to pay a truckload of money to defend yourself

Sure, but this is independent of the subject matter of the claim. In the US you can sue anyone for anything and it will cost a lot of money for them to defend themselves; witness the "90 year old without a computer illegally downloaded porn movies" copyright suits, for instance.