mindentropy

What machine is this being hosted now? Is it the same Solaris machine?

> I have a translation of a Russian book of high school physics problems, most of which I can't solve.

Irodov by any chance?

It is just me that I used to find CRT monitors much more soothing and soft to my eyes. I feel the LCD monitors to have a very synthetic contrast, brightness and colors which I find harsh to my eyes.

> If you are young and healthy without crushing debt. Don’t go looking for a job. Go find an adventure.

I am looking exactly for adventure. I was in a consulting company where I was solving such problems. Now I am in a large product company where the bureaucracy is becoming unbearable. It is also more about where you are presently to get opportunities. I am in a country where the scope is limited.

What kind of expectations did these companies have when they interviewed you? Did they expect you to have experience in the domain or samples of previous work etc?

Isn't network bring up done asynchronously in distros these days? I see my network interface not up and running even after the system is fully booted.

What are the chances of having your startup in areas other than web and mobile application development ecosystem?

Do you think starting a company working on compilers, operating systems etc will even work without huge resources and connections?

Curious, what type of interesting problems did you work on?

I am at my wits end trying to find some challenging work. I have grown up reading about Stallman, Carmack and team, Zawinkski etc. I used to love reading "A little Black book of Computer Viruses" by Mark Ludwig and Michael Abrash's books on optimization.

I am into embedded domain because of being so close the metal guys and there were so many greats in the electronics domain too.

I still remember the days of early linux trying to boot Gentoo on a iMac G3 and going nuts seeing the final bootup. Building computers by myself. Reading war stories and flame wars on slashdot.

All these were in the golden years of the 90's.

Currently I am finding no inspiration with work as there is nothing revolutionary coming out. Corp jobs are a complete mess. The systems suck with uninspiring team members. No experimentation whatsoever.

I too am in the same place as you just 4 years older. I used to do interesting personal projects before but it has completely reduced because professional life really screws you over and reduces you to an empty shell. Now all I do is grind leetcode so that I can retire in some good engineering driven company.

This is really great! Keep doing what you are doing, Sir.

I once had the pleasure of interviewing a German consultant who was into Android programming and he was like 48 or 50 years old. The interview was like listening to stories of his programming days with various hardware(Commodore etc) and it was fascinating that too with his precise German English accent.

Funny. I too with 14 years also with a lot of love for programming want to have a career like him. Like you I too am leetcoding so that I can get into a proper engineering company where I will not be discriminated based on age.

Hope we both will do the same as what the OP did.

This is good for IoT devices etc. There is a lot of major/minor upgrades that need to be done and such a tool can be helpful.

Is this similar to NodeRed for IoT? I was trying to bring up something similar for IoT with CEP rules and source and sink connections on the Edge.

It is pretty complex with both Qemu and Gem5. If you have experience in Embedded then it should be ok but still a lot to learn. Currently it is just an exploration for me but I would want to use that knowledge to complement my work i.e. develop a emulated board with all the peripherals and bring up the kernel before a board is fabricated.

Resources would be Computer and CPU Architecture books.

Very nice work. I love hardware based projects. Regarding the FPGA isn't the Lattice ECP5 FPGA too costly for a personal project?

> The end project is a low cost combination signal generator / oscilloscope for aligning antique radios that I eventually want to sell.

What do you mean by aligning antique radio? Could you please explain a little bit on this?

Are you using lattice tools to build or open source tools?

Also is it similar to Red Pitaya board?

How do you manage to test your engine? I have an interest and working on emulation and for me it is to just run the existing firmware etc and improve.

Do you create complex scenes or demos to test your engines to the limit? Don't you actually have to create a game to test your engine? For this do you port an existing open source game to your engine?

I am currently learning on how to emulate a CPU and have picked the MSP430. I am trying to emulate it in Qemu and also thinking how I can also do it in Gem5.

I have selected MSP430 considering it has just 27 instructions and I love the architecture.

You are thinking like it is a technology company. I think app is just a small part of what they do.

> Plenty of people put in a lot and don’t get much back. Just because life worked out great for you—you put in effort and saw a return—doesn’t mean it works that way for everyone. I personally worked my ass off for 5 years and then got screwed out of my work by people with more money.

Dude, I worked especially hard for 13 years and got screwed badly. You are lucky that you got that knowledge in 5 years that hard work does not equate to anything and did not waste a lot of time.

Most of the people who graduated with me found loopholes in the system and are more successful exploiting it. Very few people took hard work route and even less became successful. (Note: I am not from the US)

> And then we have comma, which controls your vehicle on a non-realtime system...

Lol. This is what I found extremely shocking and is the first thing that I noticed. I don't think anyone serious about embedded design would touch it. They are trying to ignore decades of experience in real time systems and build some hacky stuff and make it open source.

When you have words like "shafted" in a news about investments etc then what do you expect the story to be but unprofessional.

Not sure why you have been downvoted but even I too was gnashing my teeth. Also introducing unwanted complexity of cache coherence etc and linking irrelevant concepts to support his argument. Sigh!

These are all well understood by RTOS firmware and Linux driver people. The author, if he has not understood the problem or what is happening should at least use the mailing lists, read on documentation etc to understand how things work rather than write a blog post blaming the kernel people assuming they have not thought enough while designing.

> life really is unfair and success in life is more linked to the lottery of birth and opportunities available to you than any amount of hard work.

Of course it is. My life is one example. Working in a third world country I was working like crazy and I had many of my customers in Europe and US F100 companies say that I am the hardest worker and I am way better than their employees. When they came to know how much I was paid they were in complete shock. My company too used to ignore the appreciations because if they do then they would have to pay me more! I worked in the company for 12 years. Moved to another smaller company and the cycle repeats there too and have moved out after 1.8 years in it.

It is a lottery alright. That is why you had gold rush and mass migration in search of better life. Lower migration barriers and majority in poverty motivated them. It is difficult to make this decision now as there is a feeling of OK pay and a bigger migration barrier.

I lost complete interest in SDR due to the fact that antenna's are very important. I am ok with the tools etc but the fact that I cannot do anything with the antennas and the interference put me off.

I found the book to have a very Western perspective of things. I am from India and could not relate very well to it considering it has good reviews. The book also has very dark undertones to it. It has this very "Return of the prodigal son" feel to it.

Do you have any material on their money laundering?

Lol. What is the lecture you are studying for? Who is the author?

> It's a worthwhile bet given the Indian consumers purchasing power/quality expectations are on the rise.

Isn't it undergoing a saturation of sorts as of now? Correct me if I am wrong but the general Indian consumer purchasing power/quality is led by employment in IT sector. What happens if there is a severe downturn in it or there is significant competition from other countries?

> Someone is going to build it.

Definitely but if they see profits and positive cash flow in it which I don't think companies like OYO are looking at.

> You can always ask the established chains in the west and they will tell you how long they think it will take.

This is because there is something called standards and inspection in the US. This is absent in India. One just has to look at the shoddy houses and apartments being constructed by some reputed builders.

> But Reliance Jio did it anyway.

With the full support from the Government I think it would be possible. Also is Jio making a profit? ( https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/telecom/teleco... )

Also would Jio be profitable once they achieve their targets?

Do you consider candidates from outside the US?

> I recently had a phone screen with them (no offer otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this) and all of my communication was with this MIT math PhD.

What were you applying for? A software position? If yes I am curious as to what programming questions did he ask.

Why were jobs in Switzerland affected?