wlievens

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1. 151.▲
   by wlievens 11y ago

   This scares me. I'm thirty-two and therefore not very far from peaking, including salary unless you get a management function.
2. 152.▲
   by wlievens 11y ago

   It depends on where you live and what factors you include. Where I live, I'd you just look at money, you'd probably be best of going into construction. You may make less than me, but due to how our taxes work, it'd take me de
3. 153.▲
   by wlievens 11y ago

   Unity is much, much more than a compiler. You'd have to drag a lot of stuff with you and deal with a license.
4. 154.▲
   by wlievens 11y ago

   > I wonder, if we could write one single file that would handle client side, server side, and DB code using the same types, objects, functions, and language with no visible boundaries to the programmer, would MV* become less practical? G
5. 155.▲
   by wlievens 11y ago

   For those who are beyond help, nothing? For the loved ones of the victims, it could provide a sliver of comfort, and that is priceless compared to taking away the freedom of someone who has no right to it.
6. 156.▲
   by wlievens 11y ago

   Decent pay isn't hard, it's just not great :-)
7. 157.▲
   by wlievens 11y ago

   I work for a company with ~50m revenue, 75 employees that's exited a year ago, and both your criteria are true. I don't think we're a startup though.
8. 158.▲
   by wlievens 11y ago

   Google starting salary is more than I will ever make (as an employee) and I'm in fact doing very well for my age group, in Belgium that is.
9. 159.▲
   by wlievens 11y ago

   Did you perhaps also have children recently? They're an absolute joy, but also tend to make you at least 20% dumber :-)
10. 160.▲
    by wlievens 11y ago

    Is that take-home pay after a taxes? Is the left column the gross wage, or the cost of employment to the employer? Eitherway in Belgium you'd keep barely half of that. Seems like the Swedes get the better deal.
11. 161.▲
    by wlievens 11y ago

    You are entitled to nothing!
12. 162.▲
    by wlievens 11y ago

    Sweet potatoes are more akin to pumpkin than to ordinary potatoes, I think. In that sense they function as half vegetable, half starch source.
13. 163.▲
    by wlievens 11y ago

    A photo of my wife and toddler daughter yields "instrumentation". I'm not sure what to think about that.
14. 164.▲
    by wlievens 11y ago

    Now all we need is ctypes support :-) Get cracking Stefan!
15. 165.▲
    by wlievens 11y ago

    Yeah in my experience, the real time sink is the disproportionate cost of making a decent user interface, regardless of framework or environment.
16. 166.▲
    by wlievens 11y ago

    Same here! It's perfectly possible to write quality Java code, without trying to cram everything into Spring.
17. 167.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    The company I work for designs and sells image sensors. Our largest (custom) sensor is about the size of a phablet phone - not quite large format but it's close.
18. 168.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    I work for a company that designs CMOS sensors and the notion of a poster-sized sensor made me chuckle :-) We do have a sensor bigger than my iPhone and that thing is a monster.
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    by wlievens 12y ago

    > You need only imagine someone in your company, who you have a very low opinion of their contribution, become $FU rich while you see only a modest change in your personal net worth. I have seen that dynamic break people. You probably sh
20. 170.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    I'm pretty sure it was in the scope of a rather big conflict.
21. 171.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    Is this an ETL tool? If yes, how does it compare to existing tools in that space?
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    by wlievens 12y ago

    Parts of the post are interesting and challenging, and to some degree I agree that the cost of layering abstractions is often underestimated, but the final few paragraphs read like a naive manifesto...
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    by wlievens 12y ago

    Cool, where do you work? I work for an image sensor company (CMOS - not CCD), though I'm a pure software engineer (wafer and assembly test software among other tools) so I don't know that much of device physics, only that which I&
24. 174.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    I don't doubt the JVM designers have good compiler writers. I rather think that they wanted the bytecode to be accessible to write for other compiler writers, such as the team that implemented JSP servlets a century ago, but also per
25. 175.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    Cool, I didn't know that.
26. 176.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    I know that, but I don't think every material has the interesting properties that Si does for image sensors , i.e. it needs to basically turn photons of the right wavelength range into electrons.
27. 177.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    Wouldn't work for all applications, tough, if I'm not mistaken, as you specifically need Silicon for imaging chips (CCD/CMOS). Or is that nonsense?
28. 178.▲
    by wlievens 12y ago

    Optimal register allocation is an NP-complete problem. By doing away with it, you don't need to allocate registers. How that compares on a practical level, I have no idea. But it's one of the reasons the JVM has a stack-based mode
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    by wlievens 12y ago

    I'm not sure. I thought of the "False Color" concept, but that's pretty much the exact opposite of what you said. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_color
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    by wlievens 12y ago

    Apparently the visible light sensor has RGB color filters. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentDisplay.do?id=PHILA... I would guess these are probably not a Bayer filter pattern, but filters that are mechanically