Long discussions about long names

Posted May 5, 2009 15:33 UTC (Tue) by branden (guest, #7029)
Parent article: Long discussions about long names

Hmm, replying to specific messages in the thread is broken in my browser
(Konqueror 3.5.9); I have to "Post a comment".

Patent claims are in the public domain; it is implementations that are
monopolized. In software--and I don't know if this is due to statute,
court precedent, or simply a Mexican standoff among large patent
holders--the source code is regarded as documentary, and the executable as
the implementation.

Thus, for compiled languages at least, it's perfectly okay to IFDEF code
that would infringe a patent if compiled, because in uncompiled form it's
just another way of stating what's in the patent itself.

to post comments

Long discussions about long names

Posted May 5, 2009 15:36 UTC (Tue) by branden (guest, #7029) [Link] (4 responses)

...and after posting one reply, magically the "Reply to this comment"
buttons appear.

Anyway, my response was to Southey.

Reply to comments button missing (off-topic)

Posted May 5, 2009 18:23 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link] (3 responses)

I, too, have seen missing "Reply to this comment" buttons on LWN pages (for the past several years now, using various releases of Firefox). I think that refreshing the page restores these buttons. Any idea what's going on?

Reply to comments button missing (off-topic)

Posted May 5, 2009 18:24 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link]

s/seen/experienced/

I clicked the wrong button that time. :(

Reply to comments button missing (off-topic)

Posted May 5, 2009 18:30 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

My guess is that this happened immediately after you logged into the site. It's a matter of getting the right stylesheet; the old, anonymous-user sheet doesn't time out for a minute or so after login. I know how to fix it, I think; it just kind of fell off the list. Putting it back now.

Reply to comments button missing (off-topic)

Posted May 5, 2009 21:35 UTC (Tue) by jhhaller (guest, #56103) [Link]

It's not just after logging into the site, as I remain logged in over browser sessions. I must still be logged in, as this was subscriber-only at the time I read it. I needed to refresh the page to see the comment button. Perhaps the anonymous style sheet gets pushed early in the visit before anything verifies the login cookie and changes the style sheet.