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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

#31185 — More about wisdom and more about what's an invention

Hello..


Now more about "wisdom" and about what's an invention...

We have to have "wisdom" also to define more correctly what's an 
invention...

So please follow with me because i will try to define more what's an 
invention...

If we look at programming, how then can we define an invention in 
programming ? we can take the sadistic way of thinking and define
it to have overall a quality of 9/10 and 10/10, but this is not
a correct way of defining what's an invention, so how can we define an 
invention in programming and what's the correct way to define invention 
? invention can be defined from the point of view of one "criteria", or 
from the point of view of many "criterias", so what are those criteria 
that we must think about when defining an invention, we have the 
criteria of how easy to use is the library or program, and this is  like 
"art", it's like if you are painting a more "beautiful" picture, so i 
will give you an example to understand me more, if you look for example 
at my parallel varfiler here:

https://sites.google.com/site/aminer68/parallel-varfiler

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: i mean everytime you add a key and its corresponding data, it 
will add it immediatly to the memory and to the hardisk's file, so from 
the point of view of the "easy" of use,  we can considere it an 
invention because the interface is easy to use and mroe beautiful to 
use, it's like "art", you have to look at it like looking at a beautiful 
painting picture... also the fact that it's a parallel hashtable that 
uses lock striping and the fact that it supports those characteristics 
that i have just talked about makes it a good condidate to be called an 
invention...so if you understand me more, i am defining an invention in 
programming also like a painting art, and i am telling you that if the 
interface is creative in the easy of use, so if it's more beautiful than 
other libraries so we can call that an invention, my definition applies 
to my other projects... and of course we an judge and define an 
invention from the point of you of other criterias like efficiency 
and/or speed and/or portability etc.



Thank you for your time.


Amine Moulay Ramdane.

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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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