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So, the only reason for Google to refuse to talk about joining the group to bid on the Novell patents would be if google was planning to use them against the group, if it won them.

I don't think Google actually bid on these patents at all (or not much if they did). Maybe they just didn't want them.

I had the impression at the time that these patents weren't that important unless you were planning on building products with deep MS Windows integration.

Given how Google bought the random IBM patents I suspect their strategy has changed since then.
It's important to define the term, "passion." Most people associate emotions with passion often with a negative connotation. This leads to lapses in logic and reasoning.

That being said, passion is what drives people to hustle, do what's necessary to accomplish something. It's that laser-guided focus that leaves distractions aside. It's the curiosity that promotes hacking and figuring out what to do.

Lastly, it's the basis of the hunch. What Eric Ries mentions as the precursor of data-driven decisions. Passion enables entrepreneurs and hackers to go the extra mile and end up with disruptive innovation and new ideas. This often results in improper consumption of sleep, resources, time, and money.

The goal is not to satisfy society and temporary obligations but rather to create something that cannot be done in any other way, or at least not by those who lack passion.
Of course, but it should never be too late to do the right thing. It's better for everyone if people feel safe to contact the people in the know at any point than for them to think that it is too late and that if they just ignore the problem it will go away.
This misses a few things (aside from english grammar).

For one, while there are fields where user demand is the most important design basis, language design is not one of them. I believe that the design of a language should put ab initio thoughts at the beginning. That box "Ergonomic study and user survey" is actually "Old user habits". Nowadays, everyone seems to think that a useful language has to look like C. I think that this habit is a big impediment to innovation in this field.

This brings me to the next point of bother: semicola are not simply something to be dropped from otherwise C-like syntax. It is actually not dropped, but replaced by syntactic whitespace. That means that the programmer has the additional burden of determining whether he may put a newline at some point in code without it being interpreted as a statement terminator. I believe that syntactic whitespace---i.e. that the amount and type of whitespace are significant for the interpretation of the program---is a fundamentally flawed idea. Of course, C syntax is a complete mess, but dropping semicola is not a solution at all because the real problem sits much deeper.
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The UI should tell it. For example the right-click menu, which shows possible actions, could tell you which one is called when modifier+clicking. Or maybe under the popover of the name of the app it oculd say "ctrl+click to open a new window".
The tweet below the e-mail refers to Novell patents. Maybe it was a typo or a Freudian slip, but as the tweet+e-mail stand now, they're hardly a smoking gun.

If true, it is curious that Google would refuse to join the joint bidding team, but there are many reasons to do so, some of which may not be available to the public.
Went full-time when 2010 began and stayed like that for one year. As it didn't work, got myself a new job and it became again a side project while I'm saving some money to go full-time again with a new strategy. I'm so glad I've been able to do this every year or so easily...
You say "in direct contradiction to the last 80 years of economic thought", but we have not been off of gold and on fiat for that long, more like 40 years IIRC.

Even the swiss franc was pegged to gold until 2000. The Fed is getting pretty limited to what it can do by lowering rates.

With only 6% more unemployment, we would be at 1870s levels (completely unmanageable)?

Calling it counterfeiting is a bit extreme, though.
Who offers a vocational education at an university level? Not everybody who is smart wants to be an academic.
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I posit that android would not be on the market in the touch-screen form it is now, if Apple hadn't made its inventions public due to the patent process.

Seriously?

I can see you might say Android would not have shipped a touch-screen version if the iPhone hadn't first, but I can't see the argument that public patents helped with that much at all.

Once you've seen a multi-touch touchscreen work, it isn't hard to work out how to make a capacitive touchscreen do it.
I don't know if someone has already cited this lengthy interview to Hal Abelson (co-author of SICP) about this change, but I think it is worthy to point it out:

http://www.codequarterly.com/2011/hal-abelson/
>If that's the case, why has inflation been so low in the US in the last two years, when the Fed undertook the largest expansion of it's balance sheet in modern history? i.e. it has printed more money recently, than at any other time in it's mandate - but inflation AND inflation expectations are still low.

That is because all that inflation has been exported to other countries. There are economies who have bet their growth on exports and depend on a strong dollar.
I don't want to discount the hard work you and your fellow programmers put into solving latency and jitter issues in games, but (without searching for and reading your patent) there may actually exist prior art from other fields like audio/video transmission, realtime control and monitoring networks (i.e. SCADA), NTP, etc.
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The entire relevant text from the email is "After talking with people here, it sounds as though for various reasons a joint bid wouldn’t be advisable for us on this one. But I appreciate your flagging it, and we’re open to discussing other similar opportunities in the future."

That does not back up your claims. Humorously, the article you linked to, though confusing Novell and Nortel, clearly points out that no context is given for any prior communication (which would be necessary for evaluating your claims of "this was an offer to talk, not an offer of terms"), and gives yet another reasonable argument for why google wouldn't want to agree to a joint bid:

"The search firm might have felt bound by the terms of its "stalking horse" bid, which would let it break up any existing patent licensing terms if it won; it would never have had that option in the winning group as companies with Nortel patent licenses, like Microsoft, would have insisted on keeping them intact."
Mobile companies such as HTC, Motorla and Samsung are being forced to pay Microsoft licensing fees for their Android phones because of patents Microsoft owns. Google needs its own arsenal of patents in order to prevent the situation from getting worse. How is Android supposed to prosper if mobile companies are being forced to pay Microsoft to use it? Owning the patents jointly with Microsoft gives Google nothing to use against Microsoft, therefore defeating the whole purpose of owning the patents.
I have a friend who scraps metal (steel, copper, aluminum). He has the best gauge on inflation of anyone I know.
While I don't disagree that many class action lawsuits are lawyers looking for a pay day, I think there is still value in litigation like this.

Class action lawsuits help to ensure that defendants can't get away with doing a small amount of damage to each plaintiff, but a very large amount of damage as a whole. There simply would not be an incentive to bring this sort of litigation if not for this, and companies would likely get away with these kinds of only-slightly-harmful practices. By bringing this sort of class action, the damages can be large enough that the defendant is forced to rethink their actions and make a change in their behavior.

Without class action, the damages would be small enough that the company could ignore it (because so few people were suing), or the legal system would be flooded with an inordinate number of duplicate cases in order to bring an appreciable amount of damage to the defendants.

That said, it would be nice to see some sort of restriction on legal fees, or on who is allowed to bring class action suits (perhaps only consumer advocacy groups, as is true elsewhere in the world).
You speak a lot of sense. One of my great frustrations with the likes of Slashdot was how people would only read the title and say "they're patenting computer games", etc., like you said. However, couple of clarifications ...

>People seem to presume that patents are on ideas, and that people are patenting really obvious ideas.

Patents _are_ on ideas. Sure you need to demonstrate an implementation but the patent, assuming it's been drafted at all well, will cover more than one implementation. It covers an area of implementations that fit in with the idea being protected. This is why patent claims have "fixing means" instead of "screws"/"nails"/"glue"/....

>I'm responsible for some claims on one of these patents

Do you mean responsible for the invention that the claims cover or for drafting the claims? If you're responsible for the invention then you have a legal right in most jurisdictions to be named as inventor on the patent.

Finally, probably the most important point. As you say, you can sneak things past the examiner. This is in one way a bad idea because getting an invalid patent should be worthless. But here's the rub: invalid patents are worth a lot against people who don't have millions to spend on negotiations/court or don't have huge patent portfolios to bargain with.

An invalid patent could prevent a startup from entering a field unless they have funds up front to challenge the company/inventor holding the patent.

Ensuring that patents have a very high degree of validity out of the gate is vital to avoid negatively impacting innovation IMO.
The cliche here is that the real test as to whether you can start your own successful company hinges upon what you do now that you've had your first "failure."

If what you truly want to do is to change the world through software that people love, then it's never a waste, eventually you will strike on something that people need and want, As long as what you're doing pays the bills in the meantime, then great.

Now, I don't know your full background, but here's a few more thoughts:

1) I personally would never attempt to do a startup in a highly regulated industry without some serious investors. Software for regulated industries carries substantially more overhead for development than "less regulated" industries.

2) Find someone that is as excited about an idea as you are. Work on the idea together (it's all the better if that person is technical, and can appreciate the work you're contributing). You may spend a great deal of time finding this person.

3) Talk about your ideas with your friends and family, anybody that will listen, simpler ideas are better than complicated ideas, your pitch will get better each time you explain the ideas, you will get honest feedback.

4) I don't know how much you're varying the platform you're working on, but take some time to learn a new platform/language that is different from what you currently know. Watch as your brain warps and sees your old code in a totally different light.

No risk, no reward. Don't give up.
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Very niche. At least you didn't put "elastic", "cloud" or a digit in the product name.
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>I posit that android would not be on the market in the touch-screen form it is now, if Apple hadn't made its inventions public due to the patent process.

How is that a result of software patents?
That you believe that just further speaks to my point.
Should be titled, "Why I think I'm better than web developers".

Gosh iOS devs love themselves, they seem to ooze ego.
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I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'. That doesn't mean I want stereotype humor here – unless it can be artfully deployed to add some unique new insight. (Many others don't grant even that exception for referencing stereotypes.)

Also, CYE's humor is way beyond recitation of cliched stereotypes; common knowledge of stereotypes is the setup, not the punchline. Usually, Larry's elaborate mishaps while trying to escape, reverse, or disavow stereotypes creates the humor.

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> Usually, new product categories sound pretty crazy at first, but by having others copy you, they're basically giving you social proof for your business, and saying you're not crazy for making that type of product.

Ah, of course. Because everyone held off buying the iPad until all these Android devices turned up and validated the whole product category. You're on to something there, you know.
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> http://www.amazon.com/review/R403HR4VL71K8

tl;dr: This promotes a view that those who reviewed SICP negatively did so because they were akin to people who wanted to learn how to drive rather than how their car works.

I read the 1st and last page (of 6, tl;dr etc.) reviews and I can't agree with this viewpoint. The negative reviews seem to be based on the structure (viz. haphazard) and tone (viz. boring) of the content rather than the level. That's not to say that I agree with these reviews; I'm just pointing out that the linked page seems inaccurate.
I think there are a lot more difficult problems getting solved in web development (e.g. in Big Data, scaling, etcetera) than in iOS development. I meant to say that it's harder to get started.
Up to now, Washington has thrown every Keynesian trick in the book at this recession, and it doesn't seem to have had a substantial impact.

I don't think this accurately represents the arguments of the Keynesian economists. Krugman, to pick an example, calculated that high unemployment rates would cause us to miss out on at least $3 trillion of wealth creation, and he called for about $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investment. The government would capture perhaps 25% of the restored growth in taxes, so the federal government would come out at least $750 billion behind. But in theory, America as a whole would be wealthier. (All numbers from memory.)

The actual "stimulus" consisted of about $700 billion, of which maybe $350 billion was actually spent on things that Krugman thought would help the economy. He predicted that this was far too small to have any real impact, and that we would therefore spend years in a weak economy. (We later spent additional money on unemployment insurance; I don't know how this affects the models.)

So while you could very easily disagree with Krugman's theory, his models accurately predicted the results of the stimulus: A minor, temporary boost that would be insufficient to actually fix anything. So at least one high-profile Keynesian called it correctly, although you might argue that he just got lucky.

Personally, I don't know enough economics to have an informed opinion on my own. But we have at least 15 million Americans who should be creating wealth, and who are currently sitting around doing nothing. I'd love to see that get fixed, especially because the last 20 years of Japanese history suggests that if we alternate between rounds of weak stimulus and austerity measures, we might be stuck in this economy for decades.
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Her views are relevant because of her position (until yesterday) in Facebook, her surname is just a nice addition to attract more readers, not the reason for the story.
I almost agree with you that programming can be approached from a Scheme mindset... It can be really mind-opening.
But I think teaching programming from C++ or Python perspective can be of (almost) equal greatness...
You can do many cool things here and there... It only depends on the level of the course. I mean, if you are going to take an advanced course in programming languages design, learning Scheme, Lisp and other languages can be of great help; but if you want to give an introduction to programming - to people with no programming-related experience - C, C++ and Python are very good choices, I think.
I'd say it's a fairly clearly-stated argument.
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I haven't looked at the patents that you mention, so I can't comment on your patent(s) specifically. I can comment on patents generally, though.

I am a patent lawyer specializing in patent reexamination - i.e., my day-to-day job is evaluating and invalidating patents.

There is a lot of truth to what you say that what a patent "covers" is grossly misrepresented in the technical press. There is some justification for the popular misinterpretation of claim scope, though; I can't tell you how many people discover, years later, that they have "invented" wifi - or VPNs - or any other successful standard you might care to name.

One good example of this is the RIM v. NTP case. The NTP patents were about pagers. It was later that they realized that they had "invented" email (i.e. sending electronic messages to a hand-held device). When you read the original disclosure, though, it is obvious they had no such thing in mind.

Further, you are right that most patents have more complexity than the high level summary would indicate. Does that mean that the patents are valid? No way. I personally have seen 30-40 patents that I would consider to have any valid claims after a full prior art search is done-and that is after having looked at many thousand patents. My personal kill rate on patents that I have dealt with is in the high 90th percentile.

Bonus tip: as an uncredited inventor, you have a very valuable asset-particularly if that patent is being asserted.
It's simple to whack up a HTML page with "hello world" printed bold on screen, yes. But then it's also pretty simple to do the same on iOS. If you want something quality then suddenly you have HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP/Ruby/Python/Java, server tweaking, cross-browser hassles, graceful fallbacks and whatnot to deal with. It'll always be easier to create a crappy website than a polished iPhone app.

Not that I want to get into an argument about which is easier/harder. iOS is much harder for me but I have a 12 year head start with webdev.
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"Talk to your local data protection agency."

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Ugh, python is a terrible REPL, give me ipython any day.

Yes, I know this is irrelevant to the article's point.
Dear author,

(OP as well)

It is not clear from your website what type of applications you have developed so far for iOS which make it hard to "judge" your choice whether or not you were right about choosing native over HTML5.

But I wish to remind us all that those two can, and in many cases should be combined.

If we take Google iPad suite or Twitter formal client, they are iOS apps which render content through the webkit object.

If your app deals with data which resides on the web, and with loads of it, perhaps rendering the presentation layer in HTML5 is not a bad choice as
your "elite-ios-wiling-to-pay" customers are indifference about it, while at the same time, you can win the other market (Android).
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Well, forcing me to do Lisp when I was busy figuring out the graphic card registers to do cool things could have turned me from IT altogether. But I also think that if you got to the point when SICP is taught (basically university level CS), you have to do the hard things.
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Speaking rather generically, at a certain point, a crime has been committed and a line has been crossed.

Naturally, during sentencing it should be taken into account that someone started acting responsibly and owned up to what they had done, but that doesn't mean they haven't done anything wrong.
The pain of doing web development for a maze of twisty browsers, all alike and incompatible makes iOS a "superior" choice in the sense that it means less headaches.

For me, it doesn't really matter which is easier or harder, but which has the best return on invested pain.

I am working on some solutions to get web pain down for our particular area of the industry, and as a result, I think the web may have a positive return on the amount of pain it causes. (FWIW, of course iOS has pain too, everything does, just using this as a measure of the relative joy vs. hassle of doing what's needed for business reasons, vs. hassle of having to deal with painful technologies metric.)
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"I don't think anybody(or any union for that matter) will stop working just like that."

The trucker's unions in the USA did - hence the aforementioned tearing apart of said unions by the companies and government.
No not really. SICP doesn't, whatsoever, inspires any sort of dogmatic beliefs. And I think it would be more appropriate to discuss the subject (SICP itself) rather than discuss what it's advocates says about it.

Simply put, it's more than an excellent book in the world of Computer Science. It is concise, clear, straightforward and challenging. And I think a text like that deserves every interest and respect from every computer scientist.

Respects.
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Taking twitter for example, it is rendering content in a native app when you're looking at tweets. The content is delivered in json (or whatever) standard format and rendered in native controls, namely tableViewCells. Webkit is used if you look at a web page... but otherwise it is native.

The flexibility and quality you get by taking web "content" via json (rather than HTML) and rendering it natively is a huge win.

I don't see android customers paying for websites wrapped in an app anymore than I see iOS users paying for it, actually less.

Of course if you're making SaaS such as base camp then you can do native clients on either platform.... and sell them successfully... while selling a specialized web browser (That just gives you the base camp website in WebKit) wouldn't likely fly.