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Those are both pretty good suggestions.

There are a host of arguments as to why it can't happen, of course.

For the first: the idea of a patent is to grant a monopoly. That should be on a "use it or lose it" basis -- if you're not selling a product (or taking demonstrable efforts to do so) within some t time of having submitted (or been awarded) a patent grant, you lose the exclusive use right. Afterward, you can get some mechanical royalty, perhaps. That still raises issues in the place of software where there are potentially _thousands_ of infringements in a single product. And moreso for free software: is the mechanical royalty some percentage of purchase price (a competitor could sink your market by dumping), is it a fixed per-unit fee (and how is that determined, assessed, and collected)?

Confounding that is the point mentioned in the story: the value of patents is their aggregated use. It's like the Lilliputians tying down Gulliver. Each thread on its own is tiny, but enough of them are sufficient to be immobilizing.

The real problem is that the patent office can literally create property rights out of thin air / whole cloth. The mandate of several recent directors of the US Patent Office has been to "increase production" -- to grant more patents. If the NPR story is accurate (and reading patents is an obscure art, which itself may invalidate the directive of "obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art") and Crawford's '5771354 patent was one of 5000 identical inventions issued at the time, then the patent office very simply isn't doing what it's supposed to do.

The problem (wait, have I used that tuple before in this response) is that there's no one party authorized and/or able to bring about that reform. I've watched the spectre of software patents emerge and grow over the industry for nearly two decades. Richard Stallman's been railing against this since the early 1990s (the man is seriously prescient). Numerous tech companies, including Red Hat and Oracle, are or were part of an anti-patent league. For a time, Microsoft fared very poorly in patent fights (it had a small portfolio of its ownn, hence, a weak defensive position). It's hardly surprising that Myrvold spun out and started IV. So we're kind of stuck. Unless Congress can get convinced to take action.

I'd love to see that. I'm not hopeful.
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>>If you can't even point in the direction of a fix, then there is the possibility that the food can't be made better

So what you are saying is that if something sucks and cannot be made better than I should not say it sucks. Maybe you should not even be making the food in the first place. Start from scratch and make something totally different. Saying that something sucks is a valid criticism. Saying why it sucks would be even better so that the person taking the criticism understands why but that is besides the point. If something sucks, it sucks. Caveat: suckiness is in the eye of the beholder. I'm sure it sucks for the person who's account gets closed and he doesn't even know why.

>>To take an extreme example, if you told me a debugger sucked because it couldn't predict in advance whether or not running your program would end with an exception, I'd tell you that you didn't have a reasonable or useful scale for debugger suckiness.

Yeah, suckiness is in the eye of the beholder. You believe it doesn't suck, I believe it does. To be fair, your example is a really extreme case and that is not what we have here, therefore it is completely irrelevant.
But coming back to the issue that started this discussion: is it your contention that there are very few female developers because of biological reasons?

Again, I'm not making a contention, just suggesting a possibility.

Furthermore, I admit that some factors are social--for instance, if software development weren't a low-status profession in the US, there would probably be more women developers. I'm just not convinced that it all comes down to social factors.

If so (all pop evolutionary psychology and sociopolitical agendas aside) that's a depressing thought, because that would mean there is absolutely nothing that can be done about it.

It's not a depressing thought unless you have a sociopolitical agenda of having every single profession evenly split between men and women.
The closest I've seen has been "Shades" for OSX - it just puts a colored transparent layer over everything (by default black) that makes the screen darker. Handy at night, when the lowest setting is still too bright, though it does make the not-blackness of on-screen black stand out.
Rolling your own small web framework in some arbitrary language seems to be one of the easier ways to add "open source project author" to one's resume. Not that I'm knocking it. But after you've seen the wheel reinvented the Nth time, you get increasingly less impressed on N+1, N+2, etc.
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They can't be serious with that rebuttal. Intellectual Ventures is a parasite who's allowed to thrive on the innovation and hard-work of others simply because they have identified a loop-hole in an archaic system that was never built for or intended for the abusive nature in which they are exploiting it.
I'm pretty sure the plural of middleware is middleware.
Would be interesting to see them putting the same resources in getting to the bottom of who was DDoSing Wikileaks at the same time. But I have a feeling they never will.
Why is it that a critique of newspapers in which the very first criticism is about not linking to source material fails itself to link to the papers which it rips on?

Actually I don't want a link to the actual live offense, but a link to a full screenshot of the entire visible page seems to be warranted. Because I'd like to see a) the context of these screwups (in the first panel, is it actual content produced by the paper, or wire material in which re-editing presents other logistical obstacles?) and b) I want to know what paper made the alleged screwup. Because if the article has a nice link bait headline slamming the entirety of the news industry, yet uses examples from the Podunk Gazette and similarly sized papers, that's also worth knowing.
If we want to software patents go away, we need to see that Microsoft, Apple, and other big players are sued and lose for patent infringement on a regular, expensive basis.

That's pretty much what happened to Microsoft. It got sued and creamed repeatedly in the late 1990s and early aughts. Myrvold's venture is a very obvious outcome. Earlier foreshadowings included Microsoft's pressuring Wang to sue Netscape:
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/1943376/wang-loses-lawsuit-ne...
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-04-17/business/1995107...

(One of many reasons those with long memories have little trust or love of the former Redmond giant).

(Edit: fixed italics on quoted text.)
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The identity verification is the Name + Address + SSN match, which is all that's required for presentation of the data that we showed you. If you wanted to see your score or more detailed repayment history information there would be a short identity verification quiz
I'd advise you to spend more of your time on building what's the core of your new business, because there are tons of higher priority things you'll have to accomplish. Web frameworks, even "lightweight" ones, in Python, is/was not an unsolved problem. Lots to choose from. Pick and go.

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No, it's not haha. that has been fixed.
The WSJ has long been taking in subscription fees.
You mean ... like IBM's endorsement of Linux, and in partnership with Intel and others, forming the Linux Foundation?

Having the free guilds be sworn to some liege for protection while providing useful arts is hardly a new concept.
"What makes something interesting?" His answer is "novelty", since that's the basis of Baillargeon's experiment. Note that this is not exhaustive as other things appear to be interesting to audiences, such as sex and violence. Also, any method of satisfying a currently unmet need will hold our interest, as an oasis in the desert. We can cast novelty in these terms by saying we are insatiably curious. I agree it has survival value, provided it doesn't kill us a la the cat).
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More like: you look like you've got enough resources to pay out, but not enough to put up a good fight.

One of the problems with patent enforcement: the patent holder has the right, but not the obligation, to pursue infringement. Or in plain English: they can pick their fights.

If IBM, Mac's Komputer Shoppe, and Western States Services, Inc. all infringe, odds are good that the PatTrollCo will skip IBM (able to defend) and Mac (no assets) but nail WSS (big enough to have assets, not big enough to have attorneys on retainer or a significant patent portfolio).
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Indeed. The key to dealing with the US government, in my experience, is telling them what they want to hear. When asked, "how much money do you have access to", just do the BTC to USD conversion in your head and quote that number. They are not going to check your bank balance while you're in line at immigration.

The best part is, you are not even lying.
This is wrong.

What you call "Buzzwords" many would call technical jargon.

Jargon is a shorthand way of communicating quickly with others who understand it.

You see "Buzzwords" in are building every website in AJAX, MVC, REST, and HTML 5, where as I think "I wonder if the MVC is a front end Javascript MVC framework operating against the REST backend, or if the model & controller parts are shared by the REST and AJAX front ends, but have different views?"

I know you meant it as an example, but to me it was a perfectly legitimate description of a development stack.
There's nothing I hate more than being linked to a Prezi presentation (even more than Scribd).

It has no added value over a traditional slide, and just adds more delay and friction than necessary.
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> It's not a depressing thought unless you have a sociopolitical agenda of having every single profession evenly split between men and women.

I like to think that I don't. I am however uncomfortable with the makeup of this specific field because I believe it is missing out on a huge potential source of creative and intellectual influence. In other sciences, this is not even a problem: there is no shortage of women hacking DNA, for example. So this makes me vaguely optimistic that CS could in theory be enriched by better recruitment.

Decades ago, there were no women surgeons because it was perceived as not being "in their nature". Look at hospital staff today, the situation is changing profoundly. I hope some day we can do the same for software development.
They were still simple home connections. Big companies suffer attacks far greater than the bandwidth any one of the people arrested.
Also worth noting that New Jersey is the only state to have a programming language named after it. Just saying...
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I'm struggling to think of other things. Maybe a News Anchor and other media jobs?
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If you are carrying more than $10,000 worth of securities or cash, you have to declare that. But there's absolutely nothing wrong with owning more than $10,000 worth of securities and liquidating them while you're visiting the US.

Here's the official government documentation on the matter:

http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/newsroom/publications/tr...

"If you receive in the US, currency ... exceeding $10,0000 at one time ... you must file Form 105."
Apple sure have their downsides, but compared to Linux OSX is just the better Desktop Operating system if you want stuff to just work to get your stuff done.
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This is pretty much true of clearing customs in any other country. The reason we hear so much about the US is because it's a really big country.

(As an American, I hate crossing the UK border just as much as crossing the US border. What's the point of being in the EU if you aren't going to act like it? :)
There's a lot more than just 1.6 trillion which is really just one arm of the sprawling US bureaucracy "owing" it to another criminal segment.

This idea of repudiating the national debt is 30+ years old: http://mises.org/daily/1423

Note the history of states doing it in the story and keep in mind that states used to have more power than today.
There _is_ the doctrine of laches, a defense in the case of suits brought after a long period of non-enforcement. As with most defenses, this entails lawyering up and going to court, part of what makes this process so expensive.

There were also reforms in the 1990s which extended the life of a patent (from 17 years to 20), but started the clock at filing time, not grant. This was due to a slew of patents issued to Jerome Lemelson which he kept appealing to the patent office. These were eventually granted, a practice termed "submarine patents". Lemelson (and his heirs) were awarded over $1.3 billion in royalties (he's also got a wing of the Smithsonian named after him).

But the system's still pretty messed up.
Manhattan (well, it was just New York at the time) and Brooklyn were their own cities. Also, each NYC borough is in its own county (Manhattan --> New York County, Queens --> Queens County, Brooklyn --> Kings County, Bronx --> Bronx County, Staten Island --> Richmond County).
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He wrote long memos and famously pooh-poohed the internet.

http://www.kenauletta.com/themicrosoftprovocateur.html

Correction: this was before he was sent (banished, the article makes it seem) to Microsoft Research.
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Future-proofing is a bit of a myth. You're spending a lot of money on a machine (and the electricity to run it) in order to have some tangible benefit a year or more down the line. But by that time, you can buy hardware that outperforms and costs less than what you bought now.

Additionally, what you want in years to come might not even be the same thing that you want now. Two years ago, I sure couldn't predict what I'd like my machines to be able to handle today. "What? A web server? Whyever would I need that?"

When it comes to hardware, buy what you need right now and no more. Let future-you worry about himself.

Unrelated tangent: why is this text area so small, anyway?
There are business method patents (Google "State Street Bank").

Michael Jackson attempted to patent some of his dance moves.

There's been discussion of patenting specific sports plays.

There are also discussions and stories looking at fields which work well without (or by ignoring) IP protections: comedians, fashion designers, jazz musicians. Even this bunch of hippie freaks doing something they call "free software", but I don't think that will ever amount to anything.
Only IE (so far) has lied horribly to me in its debugger: http://cl.ly/012t192A2s3Y1A3b3j3H . How in the world does that happen? For the record, `FireEvent` doesn't exist, but `fireEvent` does.

And then there's the worthless "{...}" object display from the Javascript console...
Reading compression. I am not suggesting that sit ins are legal. I am asking if participating in one is enough for the police to get a warrant to thrash your house.

Furthermore, sit ins are by definition denial of service attacks. Assertions about differences of scale are 1) irrelevant, 2) questionable (most DDoS fail miserably).

This has nothing at all to do with my approval or disapproval of the politics.
There are others who see this too. [1] Seems to me I'm being down voted un-objectively. To quote from another up voted post:

"Before the iPhone was announced, android was an OS for a blackberry type device. It was better than RIM's OS, I believe, but it was the RIM formfactor and UI style. After the iPhone was announced, suddenly android became a touch-screen phone OS, copying the iPhone.

It is important to remember that a touch screen UI was never done before in this way. There were no touch screen phones prior to the iPhone announcement. It isn't like the iPhoen was just another phone... the iPhone was a new kind of phone. It created a new category. Just as the iPad created a new category (despite there being table PCs in the past, going way back, there was no tablet device market prior to the iPad.)

Apple invented the touchscreen UI, and much of the technologies for the modern smartphone. Apple started working on the iPhone and iOS system for the iPad project sometime around 2002-2003. Google started working on the touch version of android in 2007- after the iPhone was announced. If google had decided to compete, and launched a massive R&D effort, and invented a bunch of stuff, then they'd have patents of their own to defend with. They didn't, they just copied the iPhone.

There is no question android is designed to be an iPhone like OS running on touch screens with multi-touch. Apple invented this category of product, Apple has patented it with legitimate, innovative, non-obvious inventions."

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2770550
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Carrying only an iPad and maybe a Bluetooth keyboard. I've found http://textasticapp.com but I'm really missing git integration. So I've put a couple repositories on Dropbox. Any advice on a better setup for doing some simple webdev work?
When you look up who's at MSFT Research (and there are some truly great minds there -- Leslie Lamport of LaTeX fame for one, I find a certain credence to the theory posited by some that its main function was to take talent off the market.
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Sure, but not for a decade or more. The timescale of patents is simply incompatible with the timescale of software.
"Linking to a random story in the middle of an article"

Thank God I'm not the only one that sees this as nonsensical and annoying. Who first came up with it, and where do they live? I've got to return all the crap they threw at me; I certainly don't want it.
I never ever thought about this, but it does make sense. In any case, I've always used normalized signal/slot names simply because I usually autocomplete them in QtCreator and it uses normalized ones.

Having said that, I don't really dynamically change the signals/slots after setup, so the performance penalty would result in a slightly slower application startup and not affect runtime performance (unless similar normalization must happen at runtime too? I did not check).
You are willing to ship things based on this build, so don't be to quick to dismiss. eBay, Craiglist, and other regional list sites are the go to places. Say you spend $400 USD equivalent on an older Opteron system and a generous $200 to ship it. You're still coming out ahead and would have a higher quality engineered system IMHO. Just something to consider in the future.

NAS, backups, web development, etc aren't going to stress an atom. I/O will be your enemy far sooner in most conceivable server scenarios until wide RAID arrays or SSDs enter the picture.
What happens when revenues are down? fire the newsroom, get content from AP. So true, It reminds me of:

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I thought this was an interesting article as it's more analysis than it is political commentary, something the hacker news community could enjoy from an analytical perspective.
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If you're looking for an organization which is actively working to fix the software patent problem, you can look to End Software Patents: http://endsoftpatents.org/
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I am currently making about Rs. 20 Lakhs per annum (which provides a lifestyle equivalent to what $90K - $100K paycheck can buy you in the SF Bay Area.

I work in a senior technical role, lets say in a company similar to IBM Global Services (though much smaller- having about 15,000 employees). I like my job and the people I work with - even though I do end up working independently a lot on Research/Labs type of projects. I have been making reasonable progress and contributions but nothing spectacular.

Lately, I have been thinking of quitting this full-time job. The reasons are somewhat non-simple - but one of the reasons I've realized is that I don't feel full justified in making this paycheck. I feel that I would be able to deliver more value if I was not working full-time in a Global Services corporation but working independently on my own.

I have realized that given my skill level I will be able to continue in a global services corp. for many years to come- but I'm not sure if that role is ideally suited for me. I mainly work in open-source technologies like Cassandra, HBase (the entire Hadoop Stack) and in the past have worked on large projects related to the secure e-commerce payment authentication industry. Hence, I also have a good understanding of PKI, internet architectures, various web protocols, etc.

I am wondering if there is any kind of arrangement that I can offer my current employer- where I can tell that I don't want a monthly paycheck from them- but I would still like to work for them in a capacity which is relevant and useful for them?

Or do you feel that I'm completely stupid in trying to discontinue my paycheck and should just get my head straight and keep doing what I'm doing in the hope that someday this work will start becoming relevant?
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