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I almost stopped trying to rationalize the world around me at that point in my life. I assume my experience was simply because the CTO had everyone under his thumb and he decided it was a good idea.
Autoimmune diseases in no small part ruined my life. Forgive me if I seem rude, but I don't trust pharma to solve jack or shit without the correct financial incentives, and those proper financial incentives just can't organically exist for chronic sufferers of any novel disease.
It is much easier for humans to rationalize hardships around them as something they can control. Nobody can control a monkey suit's decisions, specifically when they exhibit the emperors' new clothes type of issues. This is before you get into any of the usual resentment relationships that occur when companies restructure around their own self interest.
Try not to let the anon vitriol get to you. I understand that's quite a ridiculous thing to ask someone when their job/career is on the line.
The incentives for corporations are misaligned with the constituency as well, and from my perspective they work together to rule in the modern day. A corporation can run away from a country they created, a citizen cannot do so as readily.
Would you expound on this please? I've seen people reserve the first element as the size of the buffer but then, say a char buffer, has a size limit based on the size of char itself. What advice would you give yourself if you were just becoming a senior developer today? I do embedded myself
At some point we are just outlining in general terms what we want from a language. If C was a toolbox it is a limited number of essential tools, other languages add so many things Alton Brown would faint from the unitasking nature of them.
C programmers love this. I know I do.
Looking at a player with all /////////// chars in their name. The evidence is a game they lost, in which they lost every clutch. Their k/d is not great. Aim metric looks to be maxed out, but I don't know the weight of that metric and most everyone in that match had near max aim stat.
EDIT: There is a demo download in one of the horizontal toolbars.
What kind of things were you playing with that when you purchased it new? I'm in this industry in no small part to watching my brother play Descent with a joystick in the 90s. I think his was made by the same company - F-16 Flightstick. I remember it having suction cups on the bottom though
- My frat house during chapter
- Also US government
That is frightening
I made wrong moves applying for part of the year most likely a full quarter, but by middle of the summer I was applying to around a dozen a day with researched applications and taking phone screens every other day. I was taught as a EE so for entry level jobs I think I was being beat out by objectively better investments. I also spent half the year trying to land a hardware design job and then moved to embedded software since all the offers I had for the former would have literally made me homeless or foodless in California.
It pains me not to use much of what I was taught. Honestly I just want to be in a job where I actually work in the embedded space. Every place I went it seemed like it was going to be a job of fighting legacy code, reserved and silent experts, and high turnover of said experts.
I hate interviews but I was planning on taking at least one every 6 months to keep ready.
Its hard to describe without spilling the beans on who I work for. I was hired to do embedded programming work but I do nothing of the sort and just fix/cleanup code in C. My team is being broken up and I have a chance to work with someone who has a project that actually needs embedded work.
He is abrasive as hell and corrects me all the time. I have tried to engage with him as much as possible over the last week. I am afraid even though his behavior is exactly what I envisioned as my best fit (I have worked with such a man before and I grew alot). I am also afraid because the CEO is moving to our building and the project is directly linked to whether or not the business is viable after the next 3 years. I know I can do the work as I have literally done the same kind of project before with a different standard (Project is a proof of concept), and I want to do this work as opposed to playing Barney's cleanup game with half assed projects. I liked doing Barneys cleanup song with that at my old job, but that was new frontier for me (CUDA).
I have done all I can to make sure this man understands exactly what I am capable of doing on my own, what I will need to bug him about, and things I have no experience in. Trying to cover all my bases to make sure I am a good fit for him. Yet I cannot shake this feeling of whether it is a good fit for me. Its like trying to sleep before the first round of engineering exams but constant.
In the end I decided to join his team because he used to subscribe to "embedded system design" magazine which is a resource I used to prepare for interviews. (Can someone point me to a company that will actually test me on embedded principles in a interview for an embedded position? Literally every interview asks things I learned in first year or a thought puzzle.)
Maybe I feel to paranoid about all this because I went from producing 50x more at a startup to here where a simple change can get deadlocked for a week. Believe me I work frantically. I spend 80% of my time researching and taking notes since all the domain experts have quit (terrible benefits) and nobody seems to want and be able to assist me in a proper training rampup period (y'know instead of having me work a fucking call center).
Everyone seems to barely know the part of the code they live in and honestly as I walk around productivity/attention is literally the lowest I have ever seen in my life. To this I try and convince myself its just the change of employer type and that other people are literally watching movies at work so I should not fret so much.
Sorry for the wall of text, but the first thing I learned is that at corporate you have to cover your own ass. So it is cathartic to be able to express myself here. Any input would be greatly appreciated. I have no idea what I am doing.