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Back in the 90s I ran Minix on my Atari and did serious development on it as a contractor for various defense and aerospace companies. One war story, a big nam
by droithomme 7y ago
Back in the 90s I ran Minix on my Atari and did serious development on it as a contractor for various defense and aerospace companies.
One war story, a big name company had some image processing that needed to be done on a spacecraft. Their scientist had written some software in lisp which was incredibly slow and took 15-30 hours to process one image on a Sun workstation. I was brought in to port it to C in the hopes of improving it, as well as to add several new features. I saw that his algorithms were really bad and rewrote the entire thing using entirely different algorithms I invented myself, bringing the run time down under 10 seconds on my Atari.
I was pretty excited about this. The scientist took my algorithms and published them in a journal as his own work without crediting me. So I quit. Still pissed off about that one.
- wizardforhire 7y agoWell you’ve got my support! This is amazing, thanks for sharing!
- ddingus 7y agoYou should have published, with source, time stamps, the works.
- madengr 7y agoI filed an invention disclosure with my company, but they were not interested in patenting it. Then one of our “business development” people ran his mouth to another division about the technology. Two years later I get a call from that division, saying they “may” put my name in their patent if I disclose more details about the technology. I’m still pissed about that.
- btrettel 7y agoIf you're comfortable with giving details, I'd recommend posting a comment at PubPeer on the paper. https://pubpeer.com/ https://pubpeer.com/ Plagiarism like that is far too common. Every paper a plagiarist gets away with helps their career and hurts other more honest folks because the number of academic positions is limited.