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ca01an··on A guide to getting started with embedded systems
What would you suggest they study in order to learn how to write code properly? I've been working in chip design for a few years (writing verilog code instead of software code) but I'm thinking of trying to make a move into the software world
ca01an··on A guide to getting started with embedded systems
I think FB, Google and Apple simply being more profitable than Cisco has more to do with it
ca01an··on The White House’s weirdly hip record collection
He has divulged in the past that “Is that all there is?” by Peggy Lee is his favourite song
ca01an··on Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
What exactly has happened to them under SoftBank that caused their margins to drop so much? I have no idea why they can't turn a decent profit, given that, as you said yourself, the market is more dependent on their reference designs and core IP than ever.
ca01an··on I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now
What tech do you have to specialize in to get $1 million a year?
ca01an··on Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
Did DeepMind have anything to do with the TPUs? I was under the impression another group in Google designed them
ca01an··on Bird populations declining fast across North America
Not sure what it is like in the US, but in the UK, the RSPB doesn't seem to think cats are a major cause of bird population decline https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-...
ca01an··on Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert
Vaccines only help you not get seriously ill, they don’t seem to help much with preventing covid infection in the first place
ca01an··on Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
How does this benefit purchasers in any way? Did you mean to say it benefits the seller?
ca01an··on Ask HN: Thoughts on Working for Huawei?
Would you hesitate to hire someone from Facebook or any of the multitude of western companies with a history of unethical business practices?
ca01an··on Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin
Baffling to me hearing about Americans in SV who can't afford to live on their own on over $150k, that would easily be a top 1% salary in the european city I live in
ca01an··on The last days of Silicon Roundabout
UK doctors earn way less than US doctors, same as engineers
ca01an··on The last days of Silicon Roundabout
UK salaries are a lot lower than US salaries but every country has lower salaries than the US and the UK fares better than most. I would guess this means brits have less incentive to emigrate than people from India or somewhere were salaries are even lower than the UK.

It’s also quite difficult to move to the US from the UK, a lot easier to move to Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the rest of Europe.

ca01an··on Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt
Why is this the case? Looking at the posts on Blind, even Google and Facebook seem to pay their hardware engineers a bit less than their software engineers, probably because they know they can lowball them. It doesn't make any sense, unless the global shortage of software engineers is even worse.
ca01an··on A big hurdle to fixing the chip shortage: substrates
Most chips are not processors running software and most of the manufactured processors are small embedded ones, i.e not the kind of processors running extremely bloated software applications
ca01an··on Ford Hires Away Executive Leading Apple’s Car Project
Do you have the option of just paying for one gym session? Most of the gyms near me have yearly/monthly subscriptions as well as allowing you to pay for a single gym session
ca01an··on TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK
The USA has made life objectively worse for a much larger number of Muslims than China has over the past few decades
ca01an··on TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK
I don't see how it is any worse than the many western social media apps and games that use the same addiction inducing techniques
ca01an··on For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm
I'm curious, what sort of salary range would there be for engineers in your country?
ca01an··on I created a $350M software company knowing nothing about software (2015)
no guarantee that future returns will match past returns but they are a pretty good guide
ca01an··on What really happened to Jack Ma?
Most people are more likely to end up in prison in the USA than they are in China
ca01an··on Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987)
A lot of negative responses here but my own experiences having graduated with an EE degree from an average university (in the UK) 3 years ago has been pretty good so far. I was able to get 3 internships at 3 different semiconductor companies throughout the course of my degree and got a job at another semiconductor company immediately after graduating doing digital chip design so I don't think the job market, at least in my niche, can be quite that bad. The pay is pretty good, well above average for a recent graduate in the low cost of living city I'm based in and a bit higher than my software engineering friends in the same city. Still considering maybe doing a masters in computer science to expand my career options though
ca01an··on Rome's Colosseum opens its underground for the first time
Many of them were slaves, who were also trained athletes
ca01an··on Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
To be fair, humans are literally the best species on earth at driving cars
ca01an··on Optacon
Where can you buy suitable solenoids?
ca01an··on Optacon
What advantages does the optacon have over OCR solutions or phone apps? Why did your cohorts abandon them?
ca01an··on Papers from the Lost Culture of Array Languages (2011)
Do you have any experience with kdb+/q? I was considering taking a job offer where I'd have the opportunity to learn kdb+/q but I don't have any experience with it and I can't find a huge amount of information about it online.