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Re:“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own ... by pkaye on Sunday December 14, 2014 @09:34PM (#8750443)
Yeah low-level programming was why I have been working on firmware for a long time. But working on truly resource constrained systems can get old. Instead of really solving the problem at hand, you have to work on quirks and idiosyncrasies. I'm glad that we are now working on 32-bit processors.
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Re:“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own ... by lgieron on Monday December 15, 2014 @07:57AM (#8751709)
> Instead of really solving the problem at hand, you have to work on quirks and idiosyncrasies.

FWIW, I work in Big Data and feel the same way :)

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