L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal

Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by com2kid on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:56PM (#19804561)

I helped design/write an embedded runtime when I was ~29. Got a lot of patents out of it.

If I'd done it at 22, it'd have been a crappy OS.

Getting software patents is easy. I used to take time to file one whenever I had a 6 hour or more flight. Boredom and all that. Also my employer's patent bonus paid for my airfare.

You have decades of life left. One of my mentors had the time of his life programming in his 50s, putting his mark as a leader on multiple amazing products that sold in numbers ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions upon millions.

Up until then? Rather uneventful. If I remember, lots of years working on test equipment.

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Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by pauljurczak on Thursday May 02, 2019 @01:18AM (#19804966)

Thank you for clogging the patent pipeline for the rest of us! ;-)

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Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by com2kid on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:30AM (#19805282)

No problem! If you are willing, for only a few thousand I'm willing to sit down and write a 1 page draft on a variety of topics!

Semi-seriously, my team did solve a lot of very hard problems in a very resource constrained environment, and we didn't competitors sueing us to oblivion, so... patent everything!

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