Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

>> She has an impressive resume.

>> Why would she do something like $badthing?

Am I the only one wondering why anyone would think a person's resume should be any kind of predictor of good or bad behaviour?

You're not the only one wondering that.

In fact, one way to get an impressive resume is to railroad others and use people as stepping stones to your way to the top.

Thomas Edison had a great resume.

He also ‘railroad others and use people as stepping stones to your way to the top‘ so that’s not a counter argument.

I think the argument was that he did precisely that. Yet history paints him as a great inventor (he was, and filed a lot of patents), and most people likely think of him as a "good/nice guy" which he may or may not have been.

Yea, I realized that might be the case after posting. But, it’s an ambiguous statement in context.

He’s not making a counter argument. He’s agreeing with you...

Thomas Edison is notorious for doing this, so it isn’t that ambiguous.

I assume that statement has less to do with good behavior and more to do with doing something that can bite you in the ass when you have so much to lose.

Hi, hello, I'm a person who didn't know, so the clarification was valuable to me.

For others, just about every bio of Nikola Tesla describes how poorly he was treated by Edison. Interesting reading.

Electrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant, says a lot more about you as a human being than the person you're trying to discredit by electrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant.

https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/19/edison-publicly-torture...

https://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant

NSFL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPYikt_qvo

I don't disagree with the larger point but:

"The war of the currents (sometimes called battle of the currents) was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents

Electrocuting an Elephant seems to have occurred a decade after the war of currents January 17, 1903.

So he had even less justification for electrocuting the elephant than trying to discredit Tesla, and he was even older and should have known better. That makes him an even worse human being in my book. Don't fuck with elephants!

Edison was not responsible for Topsy's death. That is a myth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)#Association_w...

http://edison.rutgers.edu/topsy.htm