sriram_sun

He also said that it all boiled down to just one hour of kernel development work.

Why is that even part of the image?

I wonder if Wodehouse ties together both types of heroes in Bertie and Jeeves! Though it's been decades since I read a Wodehouse book, I'm just uncontrollably laughing now just thinking about it! My grandfather had pretty much the whole collection.

> "Where Claude excels:"

Am I reading a Claude generated summary here?

Good point! I was look at it from a users pov. Let's say I have a BPF script for monitoring a set of processes - their disk, network and CPU with some filters on specific messages. Now can I use it in qnx or what's the equivalent? It can run in userspace for all I care.

Is there an eBPF equivalent for QNX? Also, with the real-time linux patch (which has been mainlined now), I'm able to run C++ ROS2 control loops @ 1ms down to even 250us on commodity off the shelf i3 and i5 hardware with dedicated cores.

I've worked on vxWorks, QNX and Linux and I found the pace of development using Linux the fastest.

This is about 25 yrs. back. As a grad student, I used to stumble into his papers pretty regularly. Later, I'd scan for author name and pay a lot more attention if it was by Arvind (also a few others). I'd always smile after looking at the author name. Growing up in India, your last name doesn't mean much.

I guess everything was "remote". My dad had to mail his code (punch cards) from (IIT) Madras to (IISc) Bangalore. He did say it was a pain though.

* IISc - Indian Institute of Science

* Madras, now Chennai was probably an overnight drive in the late 60s.

S-Corp, W-2 for myself. I do pretty mundane programming related stuff for safety critical systems (med device and am always looking for interesting stuff). Been remote consulting averaging 1-2 clients since mid 2017. Here's my profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sriramsundar/. Worked full time for about 15 years prior.

nit: Fields Medal (no apostrophe).

Cost of policing is close to or possibly the highest expense for any city. That did not put security guards out of business.

There is some credence to the "make your own or shut up" argument here on HN.

If we reconsider your "criticize a restaurant" analogy, we are not random folks walking into a restaurant. We are professional chefs criticizing the output of other professional chefs.

In that context, "go start your own restaurant" does actually make sense.

Nice article! FTA: "One for one indicates that if a child crashes it, it and only it should be considered when restarting." What is "it" in this context?

When Linus says, "let's give it one last round of testing", what happens?

Well that's a great reason for ycombinator's existence! Acquisitions are a great way for established players to "develop" products.

Like I said above, it made me more empathetic, not envious. However, I'm pointing at instances like this so that hiring managers with a enough resources also consider other pipelines.

Not envy. Empathy.

The "room mate" network is pretty exclusionary and self selecting.

Noone within the team was a founder.

It was shocking to me that room mates could get hired that easily.

This was the bay area.

My comment is highlighting structural imbalances as they exist in society right now.

Even though networking as a way to grow, it is not an option for a lot of people until much later in their careers. That is because of social conditioning.

There is another dynamic that helps the recommended hire succeed in the workplace environment. They initially get help navigating the workplace. This is extremely important for career development. For e.g. If you know what to look for in a code base that might make a difference between a commit on day one versus messing around the code base for a week and trying to be really careful.

Here is my own experience of getting hired into a startup. The day I got hired the manager took the team out to lunch and I asked them how each one got hired. So results:

White male - Room mate of employee

White male - Room mate of employee

White male - Knew early employee from college in Switzerland

White female - Recruited off of LinkedIn

Indian American - Recruited off of LinkedIn

Immigrant Indian American - Recruited off of LinkedIn.

There is a lot of favoritism that goes on in industry as well. However, it is so large that it can accommodate both merit-based and network based hiring. Hiring is a total crap shoot anyway and this is not to say that just because someone comes recommended by someone else they are automatically bad. They just look better in comparison because mentally we automatically lower the hiring bar as this person comes "recommended" from a known source.

I really like the "Here's what's not changing" section. Honorable mention for Twilio. Also, the kind of platform companies where you sign up and play tend to get acquired and become the kind where you sign up and a sales person calls you!

It was on a 28.5 gallon (108L) tank. Still impressive!

Yup! A whole other real-time industrial protocol called EtherCAT has been built on top of the same hardware.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge had pretty deep religious ties when they started calling themselves universities.

This is not the first time I'm reading about Ziggy!

Is Phoenix a tech heartland? How long has Intel been around that area? My guess is no.

What do you mean vaporized? Never heard from them after they joined Databricks?

Contract jobs are never part of layoffs.

OTOH, not all full time roles have an actual human assigned. They could also be budgeted for, but not filled yet. Post 2008, managers usually kept a couple of unfilled roles for events like this.