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A powerful three word phrase that summons forth buried trauma for many. May the ignorant be so lucky as to continue enjoying their bliss.
by xyzzy_plugh 3y ago
A powerful three word phrase that summons forth buried trauma for many. May the ignorant be so lucky as to continue enjoying their bliss.
- cryptichash 3y agocould you explain why a little more? [background: though wind river got bought by aptiv... paid a pretty penny for it]
- bluGill 3y agoWind river is also behind vxworks which is scary to some
- bigiain 3y agoVxWorks has a reputation, for which I have no great feel for whether or not it's deserved. But to their credit, it's running on Mars, on (at least) Pathfinder, Spirit, Curiosity, and Opportunity. Meeting, and in most cases seriously exceeding planned mission lifetimes, earns VxWorks some serious kudos from me.
- lloeki 3y agoI remember doing some coding on VxWorks during my engineering school. From my then limited experience it was an oddball but also as my first exposure to hard real time programming it sure was approachable and reliable as fuck. Definitely not surprised it was picked for space stuff. Comparatively, toying with RT Linux was obscure and full of duct-tape and footguns. I wish I had a chance to try and code on QNX beyond merely booting that magical 3.5" floppy.
- bigiain 3y agoOh man! That QNX floppy was _so_ awesome. (I wonder how it'd stack up today? Surely an ESP32 has more compute grunt than anything that QNX demos ran on back in the '90s, I wonder if anybody has ported it?)
- fatnoah 3y agoMy very first full-time (non-internship) professional job in the late 90's was to adapt a COTS ATM protocol stack to run on VxWorks as part of a military project featuring a satellite equipped HMMWV to provide connectivity. Part of that job was a three week trip to Alameda, CA for training and certification on VxWorks. In general, the software worked as expected, and did what a RTOS is supposed to do in terms of being predictable and deterministic.
- xcrunner529 3y agoAnd runs tons of rollercoasters and amusement rides on AB PLCs.
- phone8675309 3y agoTheir hiring process is a shitshow too. I got contacted by a previous manager to apply. I applied, and _tried_ to set up a first round interview. I had email receipts and calendar invites for an interview during my lunch break on a weekday. I was ready and available and connected to the Zoom meeting and nobody showed for an hour (which was the end of the interview slot and the end of my lunch break where I had to go back to work). I emailed them asking what was going on, nothing back for two hours until they sent me a new calendar invite for the middle of the afternoon in my workday. I told them I couldn't make it and they canceled the interview and did not respond to several emails sent to them to try and reschedule. Second worst Linux distro interview process after Canonical.
- blux 3y agoOk, I'll bite. What happened at Canonical?
- red-iron-pine 3y agolotta threads here in HN about what a shitshow the Canonical process is. Give us your high school GPA and write all of these essays and bla bla bla. Then they ghost you.
- i_am_a_peasant 3y agoI've gone through it too. Twice. The 2nd time I just told them that their process sucks and they said basically "thank you for applying please don't hesitate to try again!"
- indigodaddy 3y agoI didn't even proceed when I saw what they wanted. I thought about how many people are likely to be applying to Canonical, and decided not at all worth the time.
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- usr1106 3y agoYes, I remember reading pretty negative comments about it. Don't remember what the complaints where about exactly. Bad license, i.e. GPL compliance? Bad support? (Why would you pay for Linux if not for support?)
- MaxfordAndSons 3y agoFunny, "Wind River" is also a film that bordered on traumatic to me.