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This happened with me and Google (Antbot/Cellbots stuff, circa 2011). The difference is that the Google person in charge of the fork of my project was actively
by spiritplumber 2y ago
This happened with me and Google (Antbot/Cellbots stuff, circa 2011). The difference is that the Google person in charge of the fork of my project was actively hostile to me. He told me that I was just a hobbyist and that my product didn't exist.
So I put a PCB of my product in his hand (it had some through-hole components), and squeezed it really hard, and asked him "If it doesn't exist, why is it making you bleed?"
All this at a meeting/presentation where my bot was literally running circles around theirs because mine worked and theirs stalled.
I think I have video of this somewhere, but there's no audio.
The guy left Google a year later, tried to sell bots independently, and folded. I on the other hand am still here.
It was a bit of a weird interaction overall. Why would someone say "this doesn't exist" while staring at it? I figured that haptic feedback would help with their solipsism at the time.