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> I find the whole hubris and humilty (sic) thing is (sic) ridiculous. Can you elaborate?

• not_the_fda 5y ago
  Oxide Computer is a startup without a product on the market yet. Embedded operating systems are a solved problem, there are many available on the market used in mission critical systems. At most companies that are trying to ship a product and have a mountain of work to be done, and someone said, "I know, lets build our own RTOS", even though there are already many perfectly fine ones out there, they would be laughed out of the room.
  • bcantrill 5y ago
    I encourage you to learn more about Hubris and about how we arrived at it -- certainly, it was nothing as you convey (and to the contrary, we tried hard to get extant systems to work). Read Cliff's blog[0] for details, but we are not lightweights and nor are we rookies, and the ideas represented in Hubris come from decades of our collective experience at the hardware/software interface. I also emphatically disagree that "embedded operating systems are a solved problem" (or indeed, that operating systems are a solved problem) -- and that in general such proclamations reveal much more about the technologist than the technology that they proclaim to be finished. [0] https://cliffle.com/blog/on-hubris-and-humility/ https://cliffle.com/blog/on-hubris-and-humility/