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Re: More about wisdom and more about what's an invention

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On 2/22/2015 10:01 PM, Ramine wrote:
> If we look at programming, how then can we define an invention in
> programming ?

Stealing from the definition of patentable subject matter, an invention 
is something that is novel, non-obvious, and useful. In other words, it 
has to solve a real problem, be something that hasn't been done before, 
and be different from what a reasonably competent and knowledgeable 
would use to solve that problem. If it's good enough to form the basis 
of the last several hundred years of patent litigation, it's good enough 
for me.

> you will notice that my parallel varfiler is a parallel hashtable
> that can work from the memory or that can be saved manually to a
> hardisk's file or that can be saved automaticly to a hardisk's file at
> realtime:

So... you mean a database. The concept of which has existed since.... at 
least 50 years. I fail to see how it is novel, let alone non-obvious.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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More about wisdom and more about what's an invention Ramine <ramine@1.1> - 2015-02-22 20:01 -0800
  Re: More about wisdom and more about what's an invention Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2015-02-22 22:18 -0600

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