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John DiFool posted:Just chiming in to say I loving hate webex it could be worse - you could be using microsoft teams. gently caress teams.
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Guinness posted:so say we all
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taqueso posted:The "cool" part is, the EEs at this company mostly just do embedded software. I do approximately 1 week of real EE stuff per year. So you're saying I'm just signing up to write software with worse tools and a shittier codebase? Maybe limited storage will curb the worst excesses, lol. ryanrs fucked around with this message at 22:56 on May 18, 2023 |
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Hadlock posted:I think the version we used just now was Google Meet Duo Allo Chat Hangout+ Enterprise (free trial) edition I was making 250 as a bay area L5 six years ago, for a job that I did an absolutely trash job of negotiating for. Their HR needs some serious fact checking.
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ryanrs posted:So you're saying I'm just signing up to write software with worse tools and a shittier codebase?
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I can write an interrupt routine that uses FreeRTOS queues and task notifications to provide a simple blocking API to higher-level software in the firmware. What is this called, firmware driver development? It feels like OS device driver development, minus the OS stuff. I'm a little wary of being stuck in a role where I ONLY do firmware, though. Given my extensive SW job history, they will be tempted. e: re my EE experience, yes much of it involves gluing chips together with I2C. But I can also glue stuff together using op-amps (to an ADC and I2C). ryanrs fucked around with this message at 05:21 on May 19, 2023 |
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Hadlock posted:0) jitsi What kind of programmer starts counting from one? No offer for you.
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Option 0 is always skipping the meeting.
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ryanrs posted:I can write an interrupt routine that uses FreeRTOS queues and task notifications to provide a simple blocking API to higher-level software in the firmware. What is this called, firmware driver development? It feels like OS device driver development, minus the OS stuff. The job you want does exist and IMO its super valuable to have those skills. I've definitely done what you're looking for at small (<50) person companies, and I think consulting (on your own or with a company) could be a viable path to it as well. In my experience, there's 3-5x as much embedded+ level work than hardware work, so if you were the 2nd EE at a 10 person eng team, you'll probably be mostly HW. Your project looks interesting and relevant. Now is a good time to search because you won't be competing with recent grads. I'd guess you may have some holes in your basic EE knowledge like amplifier/filter design, power supply design, board schematic and layout. Your pay will probably drop.
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gbut posted:What kind of programmer starts counting from one? No offer for you. i count from 1 because i compartmentalize all of my job duties and they along with my programming knowledge evaporate as soon as i close my laptop
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biceps crimes posted:i count from 1 because i compartmentalize all of my job duties and they along with my programming knowledge evaporate as soon as i close my laptop I count from one because it's the only natural sequence.
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biceps crimes posted:i count from 1 because i compartmentalize all of my job duties and they along with my programming knowledge evaporate as soon as i close my laptop based
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VB6 still alive and well in tyool 2023
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Lua indexes start with 1 and that's a perfectly cromulent language.
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leper khan posted:I count from one because it's the only natural sequence.
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luchadornado posted:sql indexes start with 1 and that's a perfectly cromulent language.
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luchadornado posted:Matlab indexes start with 1 and that's a perfectly cromulent language.
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i am doubting the cromulence of all three rather severely, as a matter of fact, having used all three in anger, regrettably
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CPColin posted:bob dobbs is zooted
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The best part of interacting with non software folks is explaining why 1 is the second number or why A corresponds to 0.
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All of the Excel lookup functions use 1 for the first row so the non software people, especially the finance people, give 0 fucks.
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^^^ I believe you mean -1 fucksStumblyWumbly posted:The best part of interacting with non software folks is explaining why 1 is the second number or why A corresponds to 0. Um, A corresponds to 65, actually 
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Matlab is categorically not a perfectly cromulent language. Worst headache I've ever had the misfortune of having to interact with.
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Wandering Orange posted:All of the Excel lookup functions use 1 for the first row so the non software people, especially the finance people, give 0 fucks. Doesn't the data start on row 2 since the first row is headers? 2-indexing ftw
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Matlab is categorically not a perfectly cromulent language. Worst headache I've ever had the misfortune of having to interact with. honestly so glad I haven't had to think about this poo poo since uni I run into R folks now and again, but never Matlab thank god
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Chopstick Dystopia posted:honestly so glad I haven't had to think about this poo poo since uni If you're one of the big auto companies and you have full simulink model of 18 different trucks, you're sticking with Matlab, but for the person who just wants to turn some data into a spectrogram, Python
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StumblyWumbly posted:The best part of interacting with non software folks is explaining why 1 is the second number or why A corresponds to 0.
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StumblyWumbly posted:My thought/hope is that Matlab for casual users is getting demolished by Python, especially if you combine it with Jupyter Lab or something. That just lets you do the same thing, but in a free platform that lets you do more and is more widely supported. Matlab was the choice of language for the machine learning community back when I was in school but a couple years later NumPy became good enough to replace it and now no one uses Matlab anymore. There's no gold standard free replacement for Simulink yet, but it's probably not too far off. The real locked in userbase are the ones who use the toolkits for filter design and other things that require some pretty specialized programmers.
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Vulture Culture posted:January is 0, case closed But the first day of January is 1 of course.
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Plorkyeran posted:But the first day of January is 1 of course. The 0th day is the null terminator for the previous month.
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That reminds me that my boss is always forwarding me security bulletins with the body just saying "fyi" and I always have to make sure to delete them ASAP so I have less of a chance to reply "idc". The latest one was listed as "no known exploit" because it was something dumb like if I paste a carefully constructed string into my application.properties file, I might run out of memory. Okay, thanks Boss. I'll be sure not to do that dumb thing that I'd have to do on purpose, I guess.
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CPColin posted:That reminds me that my boss is always forwarding me security bulletins with the body just saying "fyi" and I always have to make sure to delete them ASAP so I have less of a chance to reply "idc". reminds me of when the CEO emailed me "what are we doing about this?!" with a link to a log4j article nothing in our stack used java
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If I remember correctly, for us, the only application that was including a log4j JAR was so old, the bug hadn't even been introduced yet 
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Chopstick Dystopia posted:reminds me of when the CEO emailed me "what are we doing about this?!" with a link to a log4j article "We've already completed our risk assessment of this issue, and determined that none of our systems are vulnerable."
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Vulture Culture posted:The CEO doesn't want to get caught having to play telephone if asked about it by someone else important. My go-to language for something like this: I like this phrasing.
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Yeah I mean the CEO is a little clueless, but remember they don't know your tech stack at most companies. Vulture Culture is 110% right here, and that response also makes you look like the sort of person a tech-unaware CEO wants in charge of their technical stack. Like if magic was real tomorrow, and you had to hire a staff of wizards, you probably would send them some poo poo like 'I HEARD THIS RUNE CAN TURN YOU INSIDE OUT???' and you would want them to be in control of the situation and not to be like 'we don't use Bigby's translocation pattern here gosh jim read the arcane scriptures'
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Dear CEO, Leave the technical decisions to me and I'll leave the idiot business decisions to you. Love, (my boss's name instead)
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Falcon2001 posted:you probably would send them some poo poo like 'I HEARD THIS RUNE CAN TURN YOU INSIDE OUT???' somedays I just don't know what the arcane council is thinking. I hear they're using clockwork automatons to draft all their warding incantations these days
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CPColin posted:Dear CEO, On the other hand, sometimes CEOs read huge tech news, and I would much, MUCH rather them come to me, taking what in a case like this would amount to a few minutes of my time, instead of sounding an alarm among the other executives and causing a big stink that will linger for weeks. Hell, executives routinely discount the experience they're paying me for, so having them actually seek it out is a notable event.
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A bit of background. I write software for a company whose customers are very averse to updating. Some of our customers are still using versions of our software from over a decade ago. It is not uncommon for us to backport fixes to old release branches to allow them to gain one specific fix without pulling in all the changes inbetween. Earlier today I messaged the point-of-contact for one of our customers who had recently updated and had been getting false positives ever since that were causing their system to go into an error-handling mode. Since that "update" we've completely overhauled our UI, so I asked if they would like a custom release with just the fix for the false positives. The point-of-contact said nope, they're happy to use the release with the new UI. He replied immediately, so it's obvious he didn't ask them. Oh well, I tried. This afternoon the same point-of-contact sent out a broadcast email that today was their last day. I just had to laugh. Well played. If the customer is upset with the UI change, it's not the point-of-contacts problem anymore. LLSix fucked around with this message at 21:28 on May 26, 2023 |
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