Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, David Rysdam wrote: > I've been assuming that "embedded" meant some significant subset of the > following properties: > > 1) realtime > 2) re-entrant/parallel/interrupt-driven > 3) specialty hardware > 4) specialty OS (if there's an OS there at all)

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread Tyson Sawyer
You likely are more qualified than many of the people we've talked with "senior embedded software engineer" on their resume. On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, David Rysdam wrote: > roger.levass...@comcast.net writes: >> The embedded stuff that I've been working on over the last 10 years >> have CP

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread roger . levasseur
I would say things have expanded out - no doubt that there are still very specific products that meet your list of properties; Once upon a time my employers application did serve as its own OS. Moving it to Linux opened the door to lots of flexibility, capabilities, and portability. The purpose

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread David Rysdam
roger.levass...@comcast.net writes: > The embedded stuff that I've been working on over the last 10 years > have CPUs (ARMs) that in terms of compute power, RAM, and storage that > outclass PCs and Workstations that I worked on during the 1990s. It > was a big deal when that first 1GB SCSI disk dri

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread roger . levasseur
The embedded stuff that I've been working on over the last 10 years have CPUs (ARMs) that in terms of compute power, RAM, and storage that outclass PCs and Workstations that I worked on during the 1990s. It was a big deal when that first 1GB SCSI disk drive became available to put into a works

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread Derek Atkins
David Rysdam writes: > Tyson Sawyer writes: >> I've seen a good number of systems with plenty of memory and CPU. >> However, they don't have a keyboard/monitor and updates or normally a >> significant PITA and crashes/visible bugs are unacceptable. ...so >> don't write crummy code. ;-) > > I've

RE: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread David Rysdam
Kevin French writes: > While I am quite happy working in the library profession, it's not one > where getting absurdly rich is a concern. Wow, you aren't kidding. Thanks for forwarding the posting. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnh

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread Carl Heidenblad
  "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein From: Kevin French To: David Rysdam ; "gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org" Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 9:20 AM Subject: RE: poking around for opp

RE: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread Kevin French
While I am quite happy working in the library profession, it's not one where getting absurdly rich is a concern. There is currently an opening at the Nashua library Job Posting on behalf of The Nashua Public Library POSITION: IT COORDINATOR DEPARTMENT:

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread David Rysdam
Tyson Sawyer writes: > I've seen a good number of systems with plenty of memory and CPU. > However, they don't have a keyboard/monitor and updates or normally a > significant PITA and crashes/visible bugs are unacceptable. ...so > don't write crummy code. ;-) I've written plenty of needs-to-run-

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread Tyson Sawyer
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Mark Komarinski wrote: > Embedded is just a fancy way of saying “you don’t have a lot of memory or > CPU, so don’t write crummy code” :) I've seen a good number of systems with plenty of memory and CPU. However, they don't have a keyboard/monitor and updates or n

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread Mark Komarinski
> On Jan 7, 2015, at 7:35 AM, David Rysdam wrote: > > Tyson Sawyer writes: >> I'm not sure what area you looking for, and it's in Woburn, but >> levantpower.com is hiring. We are a well funded start-up developing an >> active suspension system for cars. > > Milford/Nashua area. > > This pla

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread David Rysdam
Tyson Sawyer writes: > I'm not sure what area you looking for, and it's in Woburn, but > levantpower.com is hiring. We are a well funded start-up developing an > active suspension system for cars. Milford/Nashua area. This place looks OK in general, but doesn't fit for a reason that's worth br

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread Tyson Sawyer
I'm not sure what area you looking for, and it's in Woburn, but levantpower.com is hiring. We are a well funded start-up developing an active suspension system for cars. Cheers! Ty On Jan 7, 2015 7:07 AM, "David Rysdam" wrote: > I've been at my current position for almost 11 years now and I'm

poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread David Rysdam
I've been at my current position for almost 11 years now and I'm thinking about moving on to something fresh. I'm looking for some ideas in the Milford/Nashua area. The kind of thing I would be looking for would ideally be some kind of non-vanilla-business-app thing (engineering/scientific, for in