mrlyc

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by mrlyc 16y ago
I'm a lot more embarrassed by the few times I didn't even try than the times I did try and failed.
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by mrlyc 16y ago
No, I don't think so. I'm still quite proud of the Vic-20 bulletin board I wrote 26 years ago that got me my first job as a programmer.
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by mrlyc 16y ago
PC Outline, a brilliant little DOS-based outliner my manager gave me in 1987. He said, "Here, you're organised - you'll like this" and I really did. I use it for everything - prioritised todo lists, packing lists, pseudo code, shopping li
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by mrlyc 16y ago
I'm learning C++ so I can get a job. I've been programming since 1976, doing C since 1987 and embedded C since 2001 but there are more job ads for COBOL than C programmers.
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by mrlyc 16y ago
Honeywell Aerospace, doing avionics. I got hooked on safety-critical work when I did some air traffic control software for Lockheed Martin. You might need five to ten years more experience but it's worth a try.
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by mrlyc 16y ago
http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2004/01-15Sep04-Print-E...
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by mrlyc 16y ago
For business and marketing books and other media, David Maister at http://davidmaister.com/ IMHO he's better than Heller, Harvey-Jones, McCormack and even Drucker.
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by mrlyc 16y ago
I wouldn't mention the weed site as potential employers would wonder if you'd come to work stoned. As for the fan site, don't say how you got the domain name. Just say that you set up an unofficial fan site, listing all the features and bu
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by mrlyc 16y ago
I've found kernel and embedded programming to be the most difficult, particularly when there are big-endian/little-endian issues. Porting Linux to a new SBC is challenging, as is writing the board support package for it. Also fun is havin
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by mrlyc 16y ago
What works for me is to estimate how long a project will take if there are no major problems, then double it.
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by mrlyc 16y ago
Facebook sucks because it is careless about my privacy.
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by mrlyc 16y ago
I'm working on a program that uses the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface to stop charging my netbook battery to 100%, thus shortening its life. Instead, it will start charging at 40% and stop at 60%. There will be an option to ch
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by mrlyc 16y ago
TED Talks: "Riveting talks by remarkable people" http://feeds.feedburner.com/tedtalks_audio Conversations with Richard Fidler: a little-known, even in his home country of Australia, radio interviewer who is better than Michael Parkinson
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by mrlyc 16y ago
There are a lot more low level technical programming jobs in Sydney than there are in Melbourne despite a difference in population of only 12.7%. For example, a search for "embedded" on the Seek job site at http://www.seek.com.au yielded
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by mrlyc 16y ago
Melbourne, Australia. Programming since 1986. Latest work: Linux device drivers for an air traffic control system, medical equipment and a cell phone base station. Earlier work: portable data terminals, air conditioning control systems,
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by mrlyc 16y ago
I think the main parts of project management are to take the heat from upper management and remove roadblocks so my people can do their work. The best information I've found is David Maister's "Managing Professionals" at http://davidmaist
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by mrlyc 16y ago
Wallet, keys, gym membership key fob, unironed handkerchief, coins, engine immobiliser remote control, five year old Nokia 3315 phone and a PDA. The PDA is usually a four year old Palm Pilot Tungsten E2 with a 1 Gig SD card full of author
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by mrlyc 16y ago
Calling between 60 and 100 companies a day and asking why they haven't paid. I did that for three years while I saved up to go to college. I'm a programmer so I'm unemployed and not doing anything now, apart from fiddling around with the L
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by mrlyc 16y ago
David Maister at http://davidmaister.com/ I find him more practical than Drucker, Harvey-Jones and Robert Heller.
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by mrlyc 16y ago
Just a few random thoughts: What were you doing before the VLSI course? How did you get your experience with C, HTML, CSS and Perl? Can you rewrite your resume so it emphasizes the experience you have had with programming, even if it wasn
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by mrlyc 16y ago
Photography and weightlifting. Back in the old days when I had a full set of lenses, I could combine the two. Now that I've bought a digital point-and-shoot, I have to go to the gym.
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by mrlyc 17y ago
To organise my music and video collections and save information from surfing the web and the 77 RSS feeds and 160 podcasts I subscribe to, I use a partition which is structured as follows: multimedia downloads torrents ebo
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by mrlyc 17y ago
Melbourne
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by mrlyc 17y ago
I still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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by mrlyc 17y ago
Newspapers can be a very unreliable source of news. I haven't read one every day since January 1980 when 10,000 of us motorcyclists rode to Canberra to protest against the latest round of "four wheels good, two wheels bad" road rules. Tha
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by mrlyc 17y ago
I do weightlifting and photography. The weightlifting gives me something physical to do which is a nice change from sitting still all day. I like photography because I like being visually creative. The work I do is creative but not visua
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by mrlyc 17y ago
Little Miss Sunshine Pleasantville
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by mrlyc 17y ago
"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes (the short story, not the novel) "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
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by mrlyc 17y ago
Have you thought of listening to podcasts as well? Marshall Goldsmith's are at http://coachm.hipcast.com/rss/marshall_goldsmith.xml These could also be useful to your entrepreneur side: David Maister http://feeds.feedburner.com/DavidMai
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by mrlyc 17y ago
When I was that age, I really liked the "Mike Mars" series of books by Donald A. Wollheim.

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