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It can be challenged in court, but you need the money to do it. I recall reading that there was a patent on saving part of a display before it was overlayed, so that it could later be restored without having to render the overwritten images again.
All of this nonsense is why patents should be eliminated and replaced solely by something much closer to copyright. Patents are also awarded to the first inventor, even if others invented the same thing independently. Nothing but revenue for lawyers.
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Greg Utas wrote: All of this nonsense is why patents should be eliminated and replaced solely by something much closer to copyright.
Totally agree.[^].
Greg Utas wrote: Patents are also awarded to the first inventor, even if others invented the same thing independently.
Nope. They are usually awarded to the first who goes to the patent office with a formly conform registration.
And at least they should first be awarded when you present a half working prototype, not only for a vague concept, that can later slow the real developement of the idea.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: They are usually awarded to the first who goes to the patent office
I had to look it up, and you're right. It used to be as I described in Canada and the US, but they changed their laws (in 1989 and 1998, respectively), probably to align with other countries.
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My (least) favorite is Amazon's patent for "one-click ordering." Software patents are, more often than not, ridiculous. I wonder how many I have violated. I can think of several, most relating to JIT compilation.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Third time the charm I take it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yeah, I'd never taken it upon myself to figure out the steps for your Chud. But finally...  Thank you, Notepad++!
And thanks for putting it on your board!
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Over the course of my life (before I retired) I worked for 5 companies where I was involved in software development. In 4 companies I was the software team - entirely on my own. Most of the work was in plain old C for embedded systems, but there was some C# as well. In the other company I was 50% of the two man software team. So version control was never a big issue and I developed my own VC techniques, with one exception where our two man team used Microsoft version control software (what was it called again?).
Now that I am retired I try to keep an active brain by trying to keep up with developments in the software field. Lately I started to learn Java. Not Javascript (sissy stuff  ). So I am redoing a C# project that took me several years to completely develop, in Java. Then, a week ago Amazon sent me one of their nuisance adds for a book covering Git for Windows. My curiosity got the better of me and I bought the Kindle version for around $3. I worked through the book in a day (only some 160 pages) and found it absolutely all you need to learn Git for Windows if you are a total beginner. The book is "A Practical Guide to Git and GitHub for Windows Users" by Roberto Vormittag.
So I restarted my project, doing Git version control as I went along. Java, Git and I are getting along like a house on fire!
What did I do to deserve all this fun? It makes one feel a little guilty!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Honestly I started using git before I had the CLI memorized. I just used guis and stuff like the Visual studio plugin. I didn't even get good with the CLI until I was using it a lot from linux, but the web interface *almost* makes it pointless.
That is to say, it gets a huge thumbs up from me for having so many ways to interact with it, many of them great.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: before I had the CLI memorized
You got it memorized? 
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the git command line interface? yeah
Real programmers use butterflies
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There’s an official Git book called Pro Git, and it’s available for free on the Git website.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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A book about a mathematician who discovers a theorem...
Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure: Villani, Cédric, DeBevoise, Malcolm[^]
Author is winner of coveted and honored Fields Medal in Mathematics.
Finally, Code Reviews seem like huge fun now. I also like to watch ice melt at room temperature or at other times I like watching paint dry, if it's not too fast.
The thing that will draw you in is the regularity for the inhomogeneous Boltzmann. And, I'm not talking about modulo minimal regularity bounds. I'm talking about unconditional and not even in a perturbative framework. 
―Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan said of the book, “Riveting! A gem.”
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Hey... see the positive side... you won't need to take meds for insomnia problems from now on... 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: you won't need to take meds for insomnia problems from now on...
Ah, yes, take two pages of this and you will fall hard asleep.
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My team's code reviews:
Me: You followed our Standards?
He: Yes.
Me: Well alright then, ship it.
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Large nameless corporation wrote: Our team's code reviews:
PM: You changed all the icons?
Pion: Yes.
PM: Well alright then, ship it.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Having 1 hour useless meeting every workday that I don't care about and talk about 20 seconds in each... 
Starting to use my phone usefully during meetings!
modified 8-Dec-20 19:28pm.
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having 12 devs in the room that can not agree on a single coding standard
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Sarcastic, back stabbing, and mean spirited maybe, but not boring.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Quote: The thing that will draw you in is the regularity for the inhomogeneous Boltzmann. And, I'm not talking about modulo minimal regularity bounds. I'm talking about unconditional and not even in a perturbative framework.
Reminds me of a book I used to have about abstract algebras. Every time I was feeling too smart for solving a really difficult problem, I would read a page from it and go: "Nah, still dumb!" 
Mircea
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