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If possible, it would be interesting to see it graphically on a map since it has all the city and states.
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Have you ever experienced coworkers discussing something in front of the computer and touching the monitor screen time and again to point out things? It is not the most popular use case, but it does show that touching a screen to interact with a desktop is a natural inclination. Even with a desktop.
Sounds brilliant!
Arduino? Pshhh... just wait until the raspberry pies are done!
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Serious question; would it have been cheaper to just license the patents on a royalty basis?
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I've always wondered why everyone puts so much emphasis on the number of patents a company has. Not all patents are created equal. It seems like it would be hard to accurately assess the value of thousands of patents in any reasonable length of time. Did Google research every one of these patents or just buy all of IBM's patents associated with the mobile industry?
Awesome idea and a great way to get positive energy out there - especially since teachers are facing a lot of pressure these days....thanks for putting this together
Yeah this is just the Senate subcommittee bill, which is run by a big spending Marylander who represents the program's home base in Greenbelt. It still has to pass the full committee and then the full Senate. Plus the U.S. House. And there's also a budget supercommittee that's supposed to propose major cuts later this year.

Just some context. Meanwhile, this year Fannie Mae will get more direct bailout funding than NASA's entire budget. The Bush and Obama policy is continuous and the same, sacrificing science for subsidized mortgages and bank bailouts. Enjoy those granite countertops, people!
Yes, but that's because Emacs' windows were invented for the console. So they had to use a different word for what they call "frames" later on.
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Agreed, he's in Turkmenistan! Checking with my publisher to see what his options are. (I'm the author)
You are in an interesting position...they want to work with you. You have a product, users and serve the needs of this national chain. It sounds like you are asking for help finding a business model.

You will first have to answer some questions about your goals. Do you want this to be a full-time project or stay a side project? In most cases, you're probably thinking, "I want it to be full-time, so long as I can comfortably transition without affecting my lifestyle too much." That's probably not going to happen, but it might.

When negotiating from your position, you should be honest with them. If your goal is to build a system that supports loyalty programs for lots of restaurants, say so. If that's the case, you probably don't want to build out specific features for this client alone. Possible sources of revenue could be:

1) targeted adds - your app can either serve ads / push notifications to users (if you want to get fancy, you can use a geo-fencing tool to trigger offers). Everyone wants another point of contact with their users and they'll pay to get it.

2) License them the code and allow them to re-release it as a branded app...think of your current product as a white label. You can keep your app going and allow them to market their white labelled version and acquire their own users. This can include an upfront fee and annual payments based on the size of the user-base.

3) Sell them the whole thing...which they probably won't want to do.

Unfortunately, there are no standard terms in any of these sorts of deals. They want to work with you and that probably puts you in an advantageous position. However, it might not all that much in terms of what you can get. The person interested in incorporating you into the fold (somehow), probably can't swing a bigger budget than they have to work with and you're impact might not be big enough to warrant significant time and effort to hammer out non-standard terms.

Some things you'll want to ask for...and there is never any harm in asking are: ability / license to use their company name / logo / testimonials for your own promotional purposes, access to data w/ rights to use (in generic form), support agreement (x hours of custom work / integration baked in, with above and beyond as billable, but this depends on what kinda deal you strike) and...you get the picture.

Note, they came to you. Always start the conversation with, "Why are you reaching out / what type of deal were you looking for?" They'll lead and you'll follow.

I hope that helps. My email is in my profile, feel free to reach out.
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What sensationalist claptrap. The author can't even find consistency between his title and the content of the article itself:

"Laptop and desktop PCs will never die off entirely; the keyboard and big-screen form factor is ideal for desk-bound tasks."

Wait, I thought the desktop PC was bound for extinction? Now it's never going to die off entirely? Isn't that the definition of "extinction"?
I agree. F# and Scala are on the right track. Previous attempts to build total ecosystems around functional languages were too ambitious. In a mixed environment like this they can be allowed to shine doing the things they do best and programmers can ease their way into new paradigms with working code and familiar tools and libraries.

Unfortunately I think Scala is a little too indebted to Java/JVM and tries a little too hard to match the syntactic flexibility of Ruby. A Scala-- would be an easier sell, I think.
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Interesting paper on the history of skyscraper heights in NYC
That would be like buying the bullets instead of the weapon.
Or as Wh. Like we write Nm for Newtonmeter.
I think the more likely interpretation is that they're "betting on the future"; i.e. that tablet and other "portable" devices will continually get more powerful and that letting services and applications run in the background will continually become less and less of a problem. Seems like a pretty safe bet to me.
In case you didn't notice, mobile is the next big thing and everyone who is worth anything is either spending or making billions of dollars or both.
I've read the rate of improvement for batteries is around 8% a year. That's still exponential, just not as good as transistor count. But nothing else improves that fast.
Thanks! You do have the narrative correct – this has happened very organically, and today's success is a huge surprise!

I'm glad the community has my financial interests in mind. After all, the better this book does, the more I can dedicate myself to teaching design.

Still, I sympathize with OP, as he appears to be in Turkmenistan. Hopefully there is some legit way for him to get a copy. I'm looking into it.

(I am the author)
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Whats the standard practice when it comes to future patent profile?
Hello,<p>I am joining a startup and has already worked out an equity agreement. However, I dont know the standard practice for future patents that I would be involved (if any). I mean if in the future the patent profile is up for sale, do I only get a portion as specified by equity (say only 10%) or can I work out a clause that would result in more shares for me in case of patent profile sale, say, 50% of it. whats the usual practice?<p>I am not even sure if the question is right!<p>Thanks in advance.<p>ps. I am dealing with suites here hence the sense of paranoia
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I'm working on a few apps. http://www.jobbrew.com is one, basically bookmarking(or lead mgmt) for freelancers.

Another one i'm also testing is an indie game marketplace.

PS: liked http://www.kiveve.com/
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That seems to be in line with Steve Jobs' vision of the future, in which PCs become "trucks" while average people drive "cars." I do see early but pronounced signs of that split.
The most surprising part of this is that they didn't spring for an extra patent.
Usually you get nothing. Patent licensing isn't treated differently from other revenue in terms of sharing with employees.
2^10 - 1 patents by coincidence, or as it's a fun number?
Trello looks good but it's not exactly what I'm looking for
I don't like "agile" or "light" project management software. Trello is just the latest example. They are either too much or too little. Some have a lot of flexibility but no structure and they send you on a path of confusion and exploration which I don't have time to deal with. So I decided to build my own. Just a few to-do lists and a great time estimation feature with burn-down charts.

I think we found a way to help developers and non-developers take advantage of some of the cool stuff that Agile teams have without having to read a 500 page manual.

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hopefully we'll be able solve these types of problems in the future by having a name/school/email database that you can pull from. always room to grow.....
Heroin is a short-circuit of the brain's reward system. It's a validation of my point, not a refutation. That reward system exists to make us feel good about things that enhance our survival. That means, throughout history, the vast preponderance of things that make us feel good (eating, exercise, sex, etc) are also evolutionarily beneficial. Sure, lately, we've become very good at targeting the pleasure without the effort required to achieve the benefit, but for things like posture I'd still contend that a comfortable position is likely the one that's best for your body. See: slouchers have less back problems than people who sit straight in their chairs.
good point - we're hoping to build this out and get it up and running soon
Yes. Clearly someone is a zombie if they upvote a John Gruber article that contains one false speculation. It can't be that they found the rest of the article appealing.
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I'm really curious what Alex's reaction is to the discussion here. He posted a link to the blog post, so he must be reading it, no?

The comments so far seem pretty negative, and not really for unimportant reasons.

The two main issues I see are: (1) too complicated as well as lacking contrast, so it will not print well on t-shirts, letterhead, and business cards and (2) the logo does not look like a shell without seeing the process that produced it (and in fact looks more like a pig, breast, or heart, all of which are kind of weird).

Were there business or other reasons for ignoring these aspects? Would it be possible to change the logo at this stage if this feedback were convincing?
And Windows 8 is trying to be the SUV here.
Except these patents (and the massive profits they generated for IBM via this sale) are the direct result of R&D.

IBM would be crazy not to invest the profit back into R&D to develop another patent library...
You are probably a little on the low side, but that could be based-on any number of factors (and as mentioned, feel free to negotiate). How many founders are there? Consultants? What do you bring to the table? What do you bring to the table? Were you a significant contributor to a major startup?

What's the cash position? Do you know you have a job for at least 12-18 months? If so, I'm not seeing the significant risk that warrants a significant equity bump. I'm assuming they raised 350-550+k in angel funding and there is a probably an A round close / in the works. Also, what does the angel financing look like...if it's convert capped or even better for you, the Yuri convert/uncapped, you don't have that much to worry about pre-A vs. Post A dilution.

The dirty secret is startups are a home run only game. A 10 million dollar exit means (early successful exit) the angels get paid and founders get a paid a bit. A 50 million exit means angels & A get paid, founder are happy, but looking for a next project and employee 1-3 might get a down-payment out of the deal. Employee number 2 doesn't get to retire unless there is a couple hundred million dollar exit...the higher the better.
Indeed, and due to various miracles, the source for QuickDraw and MacPaint is at:

http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/
But what would it look like? Consider Powerpoint. There needs to be a way to switch slide layout, add elements to the slide, work with animations & transitions, reorder slides, etc. And that's just some of the things that users will want to do all the time, on almost every slide. There's just no way to have that sort of rich interface in Metro. Heck, there's not even a menubar.

Remember, we're talking about regular users, here... these people (broadly speaking) never use keyboard shortcuts. Everything needs to be clickable (touchable) with the mouse (finger).
Love how quick people are to assume that Microsoft would just be scrapping the memory dump and error log entirely. Come on folks, you should know that's unintuitive and unnecessary to the average user. Don't get caught up in assuming your skills are anywhere near the norm.
Does that apply to everything including Office and all that stuff?
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Hard to believe they needed a set of patents that numbered exactly 1023. So they either bought too many, or not enough, and are playing with shareholders' money. Must be nice to have that much money to play games with.
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"1. ["same way"] Netscape had a monopoly, it wasn't injecting JS into a situation where there was already a scripting language widely used on the web and implemented among multiple competing browsers. It was not fragmenting a multi-lateral browser market or web content language ecosystem..."

"First of all, you did not cite market share numbers to show lack of an effective monopoly..."

"Netscape was a monopoly in effect (it's very rare for a real-world monopoly to have 100% of the market)..."

I don't think you know what the word monopoly means. Market-share is entirely irrelevant. What constitutes the definition (the reason the term even exists: what is meant to describe) is not how "big" a company is, but the _exclusivity_ (as in: is anyone else allowed to ENTER that sector of the market). And using the words "effective monopoly" or "in practice/real world" doesn't work as a permission to misuse the term, either. In fact, it does the opposite. Actual real-world "effective" monopolies would be: An entity holding a patent for some invention, the State having exclusive control of force, etc, etc.

Some company being "the only company who is currently doing X" is not a monopoly, as long as anyone else can enter the market.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monopoly

BTW many of us developers are totally against the evil "effective monopoly" (see what I did there :P) that this not-so-pretty JavaScript language has in the world of web development, so the idea of more options doesn't sound bad at all.

Because last time I checked, there was no axiomatic law embedded in the fabric of the universe which stated that "Every desired improvement and/or business endeavor in the realm of browser scripting should be expressed in the form of a proposal for a next version of JavaScript, over at http://wiki.ecmascript.org, or else the oh-so-heavenly multilateral dimension of the interweb net will fragment and spiral down eventually collapsing into a black hole made of kittens"

Dart is probably going to suck, though (and Java-stained ideas polluting its design will probably be the cause). Also, unless Chrome wants to commit suicide, it's gonna keep supporting JS in the current and future versions, so you JS people should put a halt to this soap opera. Pause thy bitchfest.
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>You can’t ... remotely log into an iPad.

Tell that to Aaron Barr. I know the iPad wiping story isn't confirmed, but it would be pretty easy to refute were such a thing impossible.
Thanks a lot. I merged your changes :)
Eric Raymond describes this sort of transition here: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1759
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I'm not a Windows fan, but if you watch some of the channel9 videos and see what they've done with Win8, they may be on to something [finally]. They tried some of this with Vista, but with iOS showing them the way, they may have stumbled onto something that will actually work.
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1023=2^10, 0-indexed.
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I have to admit that I just don't understand the value of this discussion. Regardless of whether JavaScript is like assembly or C or C++ or MSIL or punch cards, I'm pretty sure all of us have heard of cross-compilation and that many of us realize the value of targeting the installed base (which is why we supported IE6 during the dark years).

Cross-compiling a language designed to address JavaScript's numerous flaws into a safe subset of JavaScript for wide deployment seems like one of those ideas that we already have a noncontroversial word for -- polyfill.

Prediction: Someone writes a CoffeeScript to Dart cross-compiler.
I'm not sure the interesting split is ARM vs x86. There is clearly a lot of interest in putting ARM chips in laptops and desktops, so why shouldn't the desktop version of Windows 8 support ARM?

At the same time Intel is trying to make mobile chips, so it might just be that the mobile version of Windows 8 will be Metro-only, regardless of whether it's running on x86 or ARM.
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I am also confused by this. The name of the startup actually appears to be "Groove Networks LLC".

Obviously, there are a lot of Famous Ray's Pizzas and such, but "Groove Networks" seems so oddly specific. Does this startup have some relationship with the original Groove Networks of the early 2000s?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove_Networks
>Office itself may eventually be divided along those lines, with a lightweight, tablet-friendly spinoff

It'd be interesting to see how such a thing would differ from Google Docs, and if it would justify the kind of prices MS likes to charge for Office. An Office app for lightly-spec'd computers makes sense, but you'd have to charge app prices for it and I don't see MS sacrificing their second biggest cash cow any time soon.
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Just because they demoed it that way doesn't mean they'll ship it that way.
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A lot of the time businesses don't know how to optimize certain things, and frequently prefer to choose big, round numbers. The only difference between them and Google is that regular businesses choose numbers that are simple to express in the decimal system and Google chooses numbers that are low-complexity in other ways, like the the square root of two or 1024.
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I was told to do this in a psych class I took freshman year in college.

I emailed my second grade teacher, who was probably the person that got me into reading. She was extremely grateful, and a decade later still remembered everyone in the class.
It's been here for a while already.
I read somewhere about using object-oriented languages for programming-in-the-large, and functional languages for programming-in-the-small. That is, using OO techniques for overall architecture and organization, and FP techniques to push data around. I should try to find a link...
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That would make sense on laptops and other small devices, but not so much if you're sitting 2-3 ft away from 2-3 large screens. Which is not uncommon for programmers and designers these days.

Right now, from where I'm sitting, I can't touch my desktop monitor without leaning forward uncomfortably. Even if large touchscreens become cheaper over the next few years, my arms aren't going to get any longer, and my field of vision isn't going to get any wider (larger monitor = sit further away). In this situation, touch isn't simply imperfect, it's physiologically impossible. It'll be even more impossible if your "screen" is a 50" plasma TV on the opposite wall.

So it seems that @jonpaul does have a point.
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thx. I thought so, but that seems unfair. Even if a company go down or the people who'd left it must get something if they were involved in developing patents. In case of startups that may not seem significant but I wonder who got the money when Nortel sold its patent profile?!
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I just realized a major advantage that the Metro IE will have over the Desktop IE. If you're using Metro, software packages won't be able to install their crappy (and/or spyware) toolbars in people's browsers all the time.
Really neat interface. Also thanks for making developer/designer/copywriter checkboxes instead of radio.

Update: I just received an email with URL to edit my profile without having to create/remember password. Very neat but one problem: It's http. You really should make that https, especially when you start dealing with paying customers.
I understand that patents are negotiable instruments like stock certificates, nevertheless it seems like cheating when you can simply buy creative ideas to engage in what seems like "Magic: The Gathering"-style legal warfare.

"Ha ha! My 'System and Apparatus for Propagation of Radio Signals' confers a +2 legal mumbo-jumbo bonus on my 'Transmitter switch-on in a dual-mode mobile phone'. Your move, sport."
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Thanks very much. It might be my favorite one yet :)

You're welcome. It's the same on the project side, so should be interesting to see how the targeting works out.