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kdunckleeon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

Los Angeles area, CA Fulcrum Microsystems (http://www.fulcrummicro.com), is looking for an Embedded Software Engineer to work on our embedded software, APIs, drivers and applications for our industry-leading semiconductor high-speed Ethernet switching devices. The position would be working on a mix of C, Python, and Perl. It's an awesome place to work and started out of a Caltech research group doing asynchronous VLSI.

Listing: http://www.fulcrummicro.com/documents/Job%20Opennings/125%20...

Email me with questions or resume: hn.kevin@duncklee.net

kdunckleeon Ask HN: How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn

Here's a paper on finding the maximum size of the box: http://www.springerlink.com/content/95mh987542674584/

kdunckleeon Ask HN: How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn

While this is always true, it is possible to get a longer object in if you turn as you go. It's an easy problem if the object has no thickness, but trickier otherwise.