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Blueprints are not obsolete.
Authored by: jesse on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 06:40 AM EDT
The term "blueprints" are used for basic designs with technical detail
that are printed on paper used for creating an object.

It is not restricted to just the method of creating copies.

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What he describes is not what blueprints did.
Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 09:48 AM EDT
Oracle: When you launch the API design process, what do you do?

Mark Reinhold: Collect use cases, define the problem/solution space, general requirements. Important to get quick to a high-level summary [ of the design ] to share with others. Sketching, writing code snippets. Then you start writing code for the methods. It's important to work on the implementation at the same time as the API specification to find bugs in the specification.
So, he starts with a sketch of the set of interface specifications and some code fragments and builds from there. That early sketch is not a 'blueprint' for the completed API implementation.

What he never says is that nothing in the range from early API sketches to the final Java API Specification is a blueprint of what to make. The whole is iteratively designed until it is ready as production code and the Java API Specification.

That Specification is not, now or ever, a 'blueprint' because it is not a guide to making something, it is a record of the details of how something is made. Or rather, it is the operating instructions for something that has been made.

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Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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  • Not blueprints - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 04:00 PM EDT
Yes, Oysters
Authored by: betajet on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 10:40 AM EDT
Obscure reference to the "Why a duck?" scene in the Marx Brothers' play and 1929 film The Cocoanuts, where Groucho asks Chico: "Do you know what blueprints are?" and he replies "Yes, oysters" referring to Blue Point oysters.

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What are Blueprints?
Authored by: complex_number on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 01:16 PM EDT
Back when I were a young lad, I did a 4yr Apprenticeship in Mech Engineering.
Part of that was working in the Drawing Office. One of my jobs was to take the
Engineering Master Drawings and copy them.
The semi-transparent masters were fed into what I think we called a 'dyeline'
machine. The result was basically a revered print with White where there were
lettters or lines etc. The remainter of the paper was 'blue'.
That is what I think of as a 'blueprint'.

Then there were the 'blue' prints you got everywhere when you used 'Engineers
Blue' but that is another subject.


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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
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Sometimes called diazo prints - in blue and sepia
Authored by: artp on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 01:47 PM EDT
The printing process that I am familiar with is the diazo
process. I'll let you look it up on Wikipedia. The normal
process produced blue lines, and a cheaper (?) process came
out in sepia. I have seen some truly big honking blueprint
machines, some bigger than a car.

I would be surprised if blueprints were obsolete. When I
think about the number of obsolete IT projects still
running, and compare that to the 1921 linen drawing that I
pulled out of a drawer back in 1981, it seems very unlikely
that someone actually spent the money to redraw all those
ancient drawings that produce such low volume.

One final nit: If blueprinting went out of use before CAD
became common, then how did companies reproduce their
drawings? Plotters are nice, but they can't reproduce a
linen or mylar drawing.

Final note: I am a terrible drafter. Besides having no hand-
eye coordination or manual dexterity, I lost a full grade in
Drafting class (1974) for always having a dull drawing
pencil. No jokes, please, Groklaw does have standards. ;-)

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