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by bradfa 15y ago
Interestingly, locally to me most software development jobs want Oracle, Java, and Microsoft to be on your resume. There's an odd posting here and there for embedded developers (bare metal, Linux, RTOS, etc), but by and large, if you can't
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by bradfa 15y ago
I didn't have much luck using Boomerang recently either. The REC decompiler ( http://www.backerstreet.com/rec/rec.htm ) isn't horrible. For simple stuff, it'll give you reasonable looking C-ish code. For anything slightly more complex, i
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by bradfa 15y ago
It'd be interesting to poll programmers who have computer science degrees, electrical engineering degrees, and are self taught to understand the percentage of each who understands state machines, even just at a basic level. I'll wager elect
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by bradfa 15y ago
The link also only counts the population aged 25 years and older. I don't know about most, but I was 21 when I graduated with a bachelor's degree. So if I was unemployed for a few years after graduation, I wouldn't have been counted on t
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by bradfa 15y ago
My impression is that the issues people have with branching in Subversion is down to a workflow problem (the people and their actions) more than the software itself. Yes, Git does branching and merging way better than Subversion. Git branc
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by bradfa 15y ago
Sounds like HP is doing what IBM did not too long ago. Getting out of commodity markets and into markets where profits are higher and it's easier to differentiate yourself from the masses. IBM is still strong in what they do even though t
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by bradfa 15y ago
Generally (the past 2 years at least), if you have been a subscriber and you've provided your email address, they send out a killer deal around Thanksgiving (in the USA, end of November time). $10 for 12 print issues was awesome! I've been
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by bradfa 15y ago
Sure, same for me learning to shift a manual trans four wheeler. But for a huge portion of the population, that's not how their brains work. I described in detail to my wife how manual transmissions work, she couldn't care less to remembe
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by bradfa 15y ago
Possibly. Email me some info, my username @ gmail.
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by bradfa 15y ago
Rochester is an awesome place to raise a family. Housing is low priced, $150k gets you a very nice 1800 sqft house in Irondequoit / Greece or $200k gets you a very nice 2000 sqft house in Webster / Penfield. There's very little vehicle tr
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by bradfa 15y ago
Got any recommendations on companies to check out / learn about that are starting up in Rochester? I live in Rochester but don't have much free time. Have a 1 month old at home. Granted, a good number of the younger talented engineers are
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by bradfa 15y ago
If the rekeying protocol is performed over the air, how does rekeying help in your corrupt cop/gang leader scenario? It doesn't. Wouldn't the gang leader's radio get the new keys along with all the other radios? Yes. I can't see how r
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by bradfa 15y ago
In California and Illinois it may not necessarily be true due to laws those states have passed, but in most other states, it generally is. I live in New York state. My contract states: "I will promptly notify <employer> of all inve
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by bradfa 15y ago
I do. If you have to sign a copyright assignment statement, I'd think you'd be required to by the project (such as for GNU projects). But even if you don't assign your copyright to the project, I have a hard time understanding what using a
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by bradfa 15y ago
I had the same thing happen to me just now. Win 7 with Firefox 5.0. Even after submitting again with the same info filled in, it comes back the same way. I don't get a confirmation. I'm behind a corporate proxy, if that might cause any i
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by bradfa 15y ago
My understanding is that it's not so much a filter as a retransmitter layer. The LEDs give off a rather small spectrum of light that's quite harsh and the yellow "filter" takes that energy in and fluoresces out of a wide variety of wavelen
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by bradfa 15y ago
Any info on who this guy is or what the company is? As an example of embedded programming, do some timing critical work with microcontrollers and you'll find all sorts of fun optimization problems. Recently I had an algorithm that took 13
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by bradfa 15y ago
Usually at my company, if there's a layoff, anyone laid off is offered a contract saying similar things to what yours says. The catch is that if the employee does not sign, they don't get their severance pay or benefits which can be sizabl
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by bradfa 15y ago
Management told me that ;) Our IT is some low paid people answering the phones in a foreign land. They don't much care if I complain. The IT managers higher up who make the decisions aren't any better at listening to employee complaints.
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by bradfa 15y ago
I work with 135,000 of my co-workers and we all get rather slow, outdated, Windows 7 boxes with 2GB of ram. It's the standard config regardless of what you do. Supposedly it's much cheaper to manage for the IT dept than if we got our own
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by bradfa 15y ago
I'm not willing to relocate from upstate NY (starting a family, local extended family, own a house) and my pay is already in the range I could find at other companies in the area. I could probably get a 10 to 15% bump going somewhere else
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by bradfa 15y ago
I still work for my first employer after I graduated from college 6 years ago. I took their first salary offer without negotiation. I thought it was a good offer and I didn't know any better. Turns out, I could have asked for 10% more an
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by bradfa 15y ago
I think you'd work it into the contract with the hiring company to get a % cut of each paycheck. The hiring companies probably already have a system in place for paying contract houses, this would just be a slight change. That'd probably
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Or could a high quality recruiter just start doing this with a small number of select, high quality, recent clients? (developers are the clients in this case) Starting from the ground up with no clients and trying to build a client base on