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The unspoken reality is that the U.S. patent system faces an even bigger problem: a market so constricted by high transaction costs and legal risks that it excludes the vast majority of small and mid-sized businesses and prevents literally 95 percent of all patented discoveries from ever being put to use to create new products and services, new jobs, and new economic growth.
Patents: The Innovation Killer.
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To be bought and then parked in a box, hidden in a room, placed in a basement, behind a security door, far away from any temptation to make the world something easier and equitative for all.
As far as there are still ways to make money with the current ones, why bring something out that can kill the current golden eggs chicken, better wait and replace it first after its death
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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Well, they issue stupid patents, whaddaya expect?
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The fact that a huge number of patents aren't worth the paper they were filed on couldn't possibly be part of why 95% of patents never make it into a product could it... 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Sony, LG and Denon will all show Wi-fi connected speakers at CES in Las Vegas this week that support Google Cast, the same technology that’s at the core of Google’s popular Chromecast streaming stick.
Cast on Cast on Cast.
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Business analysts will create more enterprise apps, cloud-based mobile development will go mainstream, and HTML5 will beat native, all in 2015
"We in the mobile business. And cousin, business is a-boomin."
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To help improve common queries and other searches, Microsoft is looking for human help and could be launching the addition to the service in the near future. The product, which we are hearing is called Distill (or that could be the codename) is aimed at bringing humans into the search equation. So, they're reinventing Digg? (or any of the other 'human search' sites)
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Tech Pro Research's latest survey shows that the Bring Your Own Device movement is booming, with 74 percent of organizations either already using or planning to allow employees to bring their own devices to work. No. BYOB is not "close enough"
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Bring your own Drink!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Ah HA! I knew someone would figure a way around that.
TTFN - Kent
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You're still doing it wrong; why buy a drink when you can just buy the distillery instead. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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BYOD == "How to make your employees pay for company hardware"
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Which explains why so many companies are doing it, yes. 
TTFN - Kent
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Yup. If someone else has control of the remote wipe switch; it's not your hardware any more...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Last summer, the option to bring your own device was presented for cell phones; the company is moving away from providing cell phones to on call personnel. If you choose to opt into the program, you can be compensated for a portion of the amount on a monthly basis. It doesn't cover the entire bill, but it helps.
Now, the option of bring your own PC is being touted; you then get access to a virtual desktop. Some early adopters are very happy with it (the only person I've seen doing this uses an Apple laptop).
Our manager has specifically stated: he will not approve our request if we ask. Each of us has a pair of flat screen monitors. If even one of us indicates we can work without them, it is too easy to pull them from all of us.
United we stand...
Tim
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In the past 7.5 years I have supervised over a dozen programming interns at Ronimo and have seen hundreds of portfolios of students and graduates. In almost all of those I saw the same things that they needed to learn. How to properly ask for the codez plz?
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The main thing they need to learn is self discipline. The discipline to always write the clearest code you can, the discipline to refactor code if it becomes muddy through changes later in development, the discipline to remove unused code and add comments.
That is NOT a problem solely in the domain of young programmers. But of course, young programmers don't have that discipline because everywhere I look (and just look at practically Git repo) NOBODY WRITES CLEAR CODE, NOBODY COMMENTS, NOBODY REFACTORS THEIR CRUD!
Sorry to shout.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: NOBODY WRITES CLEAR CODE, NOBODY COMMENTS, NOBODY REFACTORS THEIR CRUD!
Maybe not nobody, but very few do.
/ravi
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What is "young" programmer mean. I don't think age has factor here. If you are not experienced, regardless of age you are non experienced. Period!
Hence the title should
What most non-experienced programmers need to learn or What most less experienced programmers need to learn
Wonde Tadesse
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Folks, things are hopping over here at MSDN Magazine. We are kicking off the new year with a pair of issues: Our regularly scheduled January issue and our special issue of the magazine focused on Visual Studio 2015 and Microsoft Azure. Two! Two big issues for your reading pleasure (even with a VB article!)
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Indeed.
Two big issues for the two products with big issues. 
Marc
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I figured a programming language used for distributed systems was about as far from client side JavaScript as I could get for a few weeks, so I decided to check out golang. "Hey ho, let's go! "
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If Go is any good, .net will support it soon.
I do note however, that Go is only half-good. 
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