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Embedded Engineers: what workflows will you tolerate?
2 points by drvdevd 10y ago|3 comments
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by drvdevd 10y ago
> Otherwise, I'll assume there are major flaws that nobody has found, just because nobody has cared enough Unfortunately, this is the state of 99% of all software, everywhere, it would appear. And I'm dubious about that extra 1
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Yes. The scale of the irony here is "smack you in the face" level, whatever reason Insys had for donating.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Agreed, though this is a situation that should be improved if the industry wants everyone using browsers for everything.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Very cool looking project!
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by drvdevd 10y ago
One reason terminal apps haven't moved on much, and one of the major challenges for any piece of software trying to act as a terminal emulator, is the number of escape sequences that must be supported for common emulation modes (e.g. e
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by drvdevd 10y ago
True. But they do seem to have created a niche in the market for someone else to fill, due also to their high markups. Most "developers" don't actually need Macs, many of them just haven't realized it yet.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
This is a really great article I should add and I do wish them luck in their endeavors to support Apple hardware. The developers tone is quite inspirational.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Agreed. It's still frustrating -- see my other comment in thread. Even for non-Apple x86 stuff, I'm researching well going forward.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Yeah in the future, I will certainly be buying hardware that is designed to run desktop/server Linux (and support features you mention like BIOS upgrades easily as well) or is otherwise known to support it well. No more random COTS buy
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I'm very much of the opinion that sugar should be considered a psychotropic substance in line with Caffeine and other addictive drugs. When I crash from sugar, it feels very much like any other addictive substance - I feel my mind crav
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I have read in the past about developers using various quantitative measures (number of commits, for example) to measure their own work. I think in that scenario it's different because the extrinsic reward is driven by intrinsic mo
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Makes perfect sense, actually. Well said. [edit] I will add that much of the responses to the metrics are quite cynical -- assuming people will game the metrics. Therefore, I agree.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Although I have experienced that choice on Apple hardware recently (2015 mbp retina), lately Linux seems to, let's say, 95% Just Work on non-apple x86 hardware for me, WLAN, sound, and suspend/resume. [edit] and this is with any d
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by drvdevd 10y ago
So, wrt the article, by my estimate the quantifiable criteria you listed are: * Fixes bugs/regressions quickly (time spent) * Creates test plans (number of plans created) * Helps with recruiting (number of candidates interviewed) * Kee
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I would argue that if you're not engineering for reduced stress, you're doing it wrong. IMO - that means bursts of stress, possibly, to make sure you build things right the first time. In my experience, prologed periods of stres
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Yes. I posted an interesting technical article I found about it on here recently: https://ge0n0sis.github.io/posts/2015/12/exploring-androids-... [Edit] this is specifically about the SELinux Kernel policy
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I feel that any system that can benefit from a high level of control (e.g. any production system) can also benefit from a source based distribution model. Of course the sysadmins using it need to know how to take advantage of that control (
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Actually, yes. That's exactly correct. You can probably directly correlate their growth with the rise of widely available broadband internet access for homes in the 90s.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
One issue is just that unless you work for Google (and maybe even if you do ) -- you can't know exactly what kind of data structure(s) you are to Google (or any other service provider, large and small). You could be just an IP addre
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by drvdevd 10y ago
The interesting thing about Google though, is their seemingly humble roots and how quickly they rose to billions in ad revenue. I still remember when they didn't exist. I believe that kind of quick, meteoric rise is a relatively new ph
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by drvdevd 10y ago
We also have to consider the (near future?) implications of machine learning on sifting through the "noise" that is generated with tools like this. In fact, by knowing that one is using such a tool, one could envision a scenario w
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I had a late-2015, 16GB of RAM mbp, and it also would spin up pretty high and get noisy, especially when using Google Chrome. It would also have some kernel thread crash during suspend, causing it to come on in my bag and get extremely hot.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Exactly how I felt.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Wow. I remember scanning this writeup when it first became public, but looking back over it, I'm certainly struck by the author(s) seeming desire to educate their audience...
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by drvdevd 10y ago
When thinking of this topic, the Hacking Team hack was one of the first to come to my mind, but political motivations are hard to untangle or to separate from even purely economic motivations (e.g.: commercial competitors disguising motives
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by drvdevd 10y ago
To each their own of course. Perhaps it's the underlying plot that really bothers me with Mr. Robot -- it feels very 90s to me, even if the surface details are much better. Today, we live in a world where "lone genius hacker&quo
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Yeah its not exactly an apt comparison I suppose anyway. Westworld is quite brutal to the characters and you're right, mostly plot driven. And I did find much to like in the first season of Mr. Robot, but then I got bored with the st
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Yes. The story arc matters more than technical detail. And the moral tropes are boring. I've come to realize that I actually care less about the technical inaccuracies than I do about a good plot. I don't expect the general pu
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by drvdevd 10y ago
One issue I take with the entire concept of "coding bootcamps" is the idea that "coding" is even a well-defined term. When you tell someone who's looking for a new field of work they should start coding, you should

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