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Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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Post by depressedpanda »

Skrillex wrote: post #348
depressedpanda wrote: post #123

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> True, but I didn't see that she identified herself, or her gender, in the article. So what's a commenter to do? Simple. 1. Assume an ostensibly correct pronoun of your own choice (like you did) 2. If someone corrects you, optionally acknowledge the correction and apologize if applicable, then use the correct pronoun henceforth 3. Ignore the overly gender-obsessed people who tell you that you should have used ugly o…

Calling "they" an ugly or cumbersome construct seems like a reach. I am a native english speaker, and the use of that word to describe people with unknown characteristics (such as criminal suspects and people with obscured features or seen from a distance) has been very common even before the gender-obsessed people took root. It is merely english.

Fair enough, point taken. In my native tongue it doesn't work at all. I was mostly referring to the "s/he" abomination (and its variants) anyway.

Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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Post by starbeast »

paul7986 wrote: post #344
IshKebab wrote: post #327

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Is that not a fairly simple technology? You're basically measuring latencies (for which there exist very accurate solutions) and accounting for clock drift (again not difficult - USB audio did that many many years ago). I guess you can get fancy if the devices have microphones but I still think it wouldn't be difficult. Like one man-year worth of work.

Creating a web player that syncs audio across all types of IP devices where you can play, pause, fast forward, seek within a track & more as seen in this video isn’t trivial! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9itwp_wYc&index=20&list=UU...

How close is that? It sounds as though there is a very slight spread, but that might be just the chosen music.

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Post by dcow »

InitialLastName wrote: post #359
rodeoclown wrote: post #312

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I've head this comment before, but from my own speech I don't find this to be true at all. It usually means I'm saying something I perceive to be more vulnerable or direct than any party to the conversation has been to that point - not at all that I was being deceptive before that point or after.

> vulnerable or direct than any party to the conversation has been to that point You seem to be sort of acknowledging the contradiction in this one. If the conversation is guarded (self-protecting vulnerability) or indirect, then it isn't being frank.

But what follows Frankly is genuine whereas in the other examples the target phrase is used to reinforce a deceitful stance.

Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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Post by [deleted] »

paul7986 wrote: post #117
paul7986 wrote: post #104

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A mutual NDA was signed as seen here https://ryanspahn.com/motorola-google-Expired-NDA2013.pdf . We started SpeakerBlast in March 2013 & were meeting with Google in April 2013. We filed a provisional before the meeting & have a patent in the patent office.

The tech came a long way after meeting them... its now a web app driven by JS that plays, pauses, forwards, rewinds audio in sync as seen in this 2014 video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9itwp_wYc&index=20&list=UU... We revived it after seeing Google's April 2018 patent & are excited about finally getting it out to the public.

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Post by [deleted] »

Bartweiss wrote: post #349
mikekchar wrote: post #67

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It's very interesting that she is launching the PandaPatents site using her story as the impetus to help people navigate patent law. I haven't had time to look at it, but it sounds like an interesting idea.

I hope this catches on - it looks like there's already a second good story on the HN frontpage, about patent issues with crowdfunding. I'm always impressed at how big a difference it can make to go from "people know this is a problem" to "there's a central place to see what this problem looks like and how much damage it can cause".

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Post by starbeast »

pmarreck wrote: post #365
mr_overalls wrote: post #362

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Money. And money. And pathological drive to win.

It's sneaky and underhanded and shady and evil. Let's use a different real-world example. An acquaintance shows me an "attic treasure" that I know is worth at least $20k on the open market. Do I offer them $100 and not tell them what it might really be worth? Does it depend on how well I know them? In my case, even if I did not know the person at all and never expected to interact with them again (basically, the reci…

>(even though the particulars on how it's possible to not be zero-sum still escape me and hurt my head)

The earth isn't a closed thermodynamic system ;)

Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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Post by bytematic »

paul7986 wrote: post #91

I met/had a similar experience with Google ATAP in 2013 (was Motorala ATAP then; Google recently bought them) though not for a job interview but to discuss working together to build our tech SpeakerBlast into the Moto X. They asked if we ever thought about selling our technology to them before the meeting and at the meeting they baited us for how our tech worked saying we'd like to work with you tell us how it works.…

Reminds me of an episode of silicon valley where they write some of their implementation on a rival company whiteboard.

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Post by butterfi »

gumby wrote: post #356
butterfi wrote: post #329

I'm curious if this idea is that unique -- The Exploratorium published a book called "The Art of Tinkering" in 2014 that has paper circuits that seem very similar to the authors concept.

That's the author's point -- she was working in a field where there was plenty of active work going on, but after meeting with google, the big G tried to patent it.

Well, if the Exploratorium published a book using paper circuits before Google applied for the patent, is this prior art?

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Post by pnw_hazor »

rkangel wrote: post #101
paul7986 wrote: post #91

I met/had a similar experience with Google ATAP in 2013 (was Motorala ATAP then; Google recently bought them) though not for a job interview but to discuss working together to build our tech SpeakerBlast into the Moto X. They asked if we ever thought about selling our technology to them before the meeting and at the meeting they baited us for how our tech worked saying we'd like to work with you tell us how it works.…

This is (one of the reasons) why you sign NDAs before discussing your technology.

Useless. Savvy inventors get at least a provisional patent application on file before meeting with predatory companies like goog, ms, intel, etc.

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Post by rusk »

jessaustin wrote: post #318
rusk wrote: post #314

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isn't neurology more to do with the physiological aspect? Neuroscience is a bit more like behavioural psychology.

Is that really an argument in favor of it being a science? Isn't behavioral psych going through a "replication crisis"?

No. It’s saying that GP has completely miscategorised notwithstanding your clumsy strawman.
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