chris_gogreen

Seriously, why not just answer the questions on the form truthfully? I hope that was an oversight. Fibbing to the feds will get you in big trouble.

No, you have to ask an interesting question or propose an interesting scenario for people to want to comment.

For a hacker trying to find data suggesting the PTO and possibly some patent agents are not performing due diligence, where would you propose we start?

How many patent agents are there employed by PTO? Are they all full time?

Let's publicize who the actual people reviewing the patents are, some personal accountability for the patents someone issues or approves could be powerful. I'd like to understand the KPI's of the PTO, are there patent agents issuing patents faster than possible? Robo signing? Are there incentives for an agent to issue more patents to keep organization wide throughput high? Where can I get Open Data related to the PTO?

Is your data stored in a graph database? Because that would be cool.

The family tree is semantic by nature, it shows the relationships between "entities". But you might have been joking?

this would be great

Does the rate that up-votes come in change the rankings?

Handling bad and dirty values from business users is the bread and butter of the data cleansing industry. Cleaning user inputs is standard, if you expected to build a database application without having to properly clean user submitted records, you have sent yourself on a fools errand.

Find a new job. This is just a little taste of what is to come from your employer.

You know what else you saw while at Zynga? The stock price drop like a rock. They spent two months teaching you things someone in your position of Technical Assistant to CEO of a public company should already know. This is an example of poor allocation of resources.

Could the back of your skull sustain the impact? Might you bundle up your coat and use it as a pillow?

Do both. Learn on your own and pay someone to do the heavy lifting, eventually you can help them while at the same time making real progress. Learning to code has made me a better designer, communicator, manager, thinker. You will not regret it if you learn.

Good, that guy wasted your time, bandwidth, annoyed your real customers and users. This amounts to money out of your pocket, it's only fair he see some sort of money out of his, hopefully the release of his info will cause this. But more likely you have trained him how not to get caught the second time around. I doubt he will face any penalty, as he is in LATVIA!!! If you really wanted to stop him you should board a plane and show up at his door.

maybe you can seed the database with event that are already available.