georgeburdell

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by georgeburdell 8y ago
I used to work in the industry and caught this article a few days ago during my usual arXiv trawling. Prof Reed's group has put out a few papers on erasable ion-implanted waveguides over the past couple of years from different angles,
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by georgeburdell 8y ago
Well the two are not mutually exclusive. I worked there for close to 5 years on a few different silicon-related projects that I characterize as unique in the market and not a single one has even made it into an announced product. These we
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by georgeburdell 8y ago
As someone who left Intel last year for one of its customers in the Valley, I have to say I'm sad that the future looks pretty dark for them. In the exit interview, I said I might come back if the CEO and my department head left (they
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by georgeburdell 8y ago
Having laws that we selectively enforce is also unethical and despotic. The laws should be changed if there is no will to enforce them.
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by georgeburdell 8y ago
As a hardware engineer who admittedly has a bit of contempt for software types, I can't help but think that maybe software startups just aren't novel enough these days? As noted in the article, software has dramatically lowered t
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by georgeburdell 9y ago
>Home price appreciation serving ‘as a kind of second job’ I had this thought the other day, actually, when tallying my net worth for the quarter. My home went up by ~$100k in value since December (hot neighborhood near Apple) and my fa
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by georgeburdell 9y ago
That's a little disingenuous. Intel's 700 series SSD does not have anomalously high power. The Optane SSD, based on a completely different technology, has power consumption that is higher but is the top performer in many other m
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by georgeburdell 9y ago
The Obama birther movement was borne out of an inability for Republicans to reconcile that Obama had won the election legitimately, and sought to disqualify him with anything they could find. Is the parallel more clear now? The Russia ele
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by georgeburdell 9y ago
You are focusing on the crimes and not on the effects. The documents you link would detail the same crime if 100 or 100 million people were influenced. No one cared about Russian influence before Trump got elected, and now it's a pos
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by georgeburdell 9y ago
Agreed. The Russia meddling controversy is the Democrat's "birther" movement, ameliorated only by the fact that there appears to be some truth to it, albeit with grossly overstated effects. It's a bogeyman that represe
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by georgeburdell 9y ago
Maybe if they paid competitively they would be able to attract new grads. Many of my Berkeley and Stanford EE acquaintances are joining Apple, Facebook, and Google as hardware engineers and getting 6 figure initial RSU grants and $140k sta
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by georgeburdell 9y ago
It sounds awfully like the arguments that traditionally nationalist groups use against immigrants, contending they're less intelligent and accept lower wages because they're culturally inferior and just don't know better Is
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by georgeburdell 9y ago
Google is also poaching quite a few Apple hardware engineers if my group of acquaintances is any evidence. I wonder if they're going full on into hardware production with tight integration like on the iPhone?
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by georgeburdell 9y ago
How much does this apply to senior employees? I have a PhD, started out at the "Senior" level as a new grad, and I just recently got my first promotion to "Staff" Engineer, which represents roughly the 85th-90th percent
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by georgeburdell 9y ago
Long overdue. I had hope that Galileo might be an Arduino/Raspberry Pi competitor, but Joule was blatantly an attempt to recoup some of the cost of their already-cancelled smartphone SoC program. Why now? They just announced that the
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by georgeburdell 10y ago
Glad to see this finally got dismissed. I was a Ph.D student in the department when this happened and it caused a lot of discontent among the faculty. Perhaps related, GT's royalty agreement is quite a bit less generous than other sc
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by georgeburdell 10y ago
Are you sure? Titanium sublimation pumps exist because Ti is so reactive. Perhaps the reactivity is self limiting with depth
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by georgeburdell 10y ago
If by market you mean someone not Intel. They probably sold all their capacity for the year to certain key customers, and possibly even with the parts not meeting spec (some companies won't care if they still see a boost), and the sma
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by georgeburdell 10y ago
You didn't read the article linked by GP. The Syran Jewish community was using it as a slur against the Ashkenazi
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by georgeburdell 10y ago
You'd be surprised how quickly it comes back. I recently had to design a simple ~50 node circuit after ~10 years of not doing anything of the sort, and I had it simulated in SPICE and prototyped after maybe 10 hours of work over a few
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by georgeburdell 10y ago
We don't want to be shackled to a house we can only afford if we make at least our current salaries. A $1.2 million dollar house would not be such a house, as even if we made only $200k we could likely afford it. We are planning to l
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by georgeburdell 10y ago
Our jobs are high stress, evidenced by the median tenure at our jobs being about 3 years. The people that leave are not job hopping, they're having existential crises and changing career paths. Basically, we don't want to risk b
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by georgeburdell 10y ago
I live in the Bay Area. My wife and I, early thirties and a few years out of grad school, make about $300k combined and in our area (Sunnyvale) there are maybe 2 or 3 houses for sale at any given time under our rough budget of $1.2 million
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by georgeburdell 10y ago
This is good news. I believe that circuses and zoos will be viewed, in retrospect, quite harshly in the future, and we'll wonder why the unnatural confinement of animals was so normalized. I have fond memories of these places as a ch