Bank of America Patent Application #20140229239 – “Face Retirement Tool”
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Searching for the phrase "java pearl smalltalk" reveals that BoA has been copy-and-pasting the same text into a number of other patent applications without proofreading it.
Is that like impromptu programming?
EDIT: since two of you asked. it's not a big deal, just that you should be able to use "it", "this" or "that" with your IDE and interactively (unscripted, or impromptu) get it to name your long variables. Likewise for what you mean by functions and so forth. Then you could say somethinhg like, "Siri, double the value before you pass it to the function, then take what it returns and if it is greater than zero...."
and it should be able to make some guesses as to which C++ block you meant. (i.e. present you 4-8 variations or interactively ask you, "Did you mean if the first value is greater than zero, or if the value the function returns is greater than zero?" Then after all that your impromptu session is not saved, only the one you ended up selecting is.
It's sort-of like Googling for code, but with the difference that the machine makes all sorts of different guesses, and you just pick the one you mean. (When you Google for code you're doing practically the same thing, entering a tree where you descend first by which link you click in the search results, and next by which answer you select on the page...)
I still think it must be faster than typing, but until there is an unscripted/impromptu programming environment we'll just have to wait to see....
y = 2x; if (y>0)...
Seems way faster to type (or say), and much less ambiguous than using "it", "this" or "that" ;-)
of course it seems easier to you, after you've taken the time to learn a language and know the syntax by heart. Now do the same thing in a language and framework whose features you want to use but which you haven't learned yet.
Definitely not something unique or anything but conventional.
Note the second line of the table of data on the google page:
"Publication type Application"
It's a combination of extreme, even admirable, erudition and a very hokey experimental setup designed to quantify the obvious.
aside: IMHO it's a great idea!!! hats off, BofA!
Who comes up with these descriptions? I can't possibly imagine what "face retirement" means, and even after reading the description it's not a whole lot clearer.
Why is that?
And in doing so I saw the rather nice (entirely unlike the passive aggressive nature of reddit) notice to read the approach to comments.
Two points I liked: Upvote what is substantial. Make substantial comments. What would have been better is "consider using the word 'because' in your comments", because people don't (see what I did there?)
But then I saw something I didn't like. The whole "what you would say face to face". You know why? Some idiot tried to use what I suspect is this very "rule" as a fallacy for a comment I made on reddit.
The people running this have some ideas, but they are half baked.
as if your future self is "another person" that can deal with whatever happens, and its really not much of your concern.
are they really filling patents based on the work of these free ad-supported apps' developers?
Seems like thinking to create a troll patent is not even required!
If so, then even if it's using software to achieve that, it will be patentable.