Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread Tyson Sawyer
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org 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

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread Carl Heidenblad
Grinning  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 kfre...@gmilcs.org To: David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org; gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent:

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread David Rysdam
Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org 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

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
Kevin French kfre...@gmilcs.org 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

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 da...@rysdam.org wrote: roger.levass...@comcast.net writes: The embedded stuff that I've been working on over the last 10

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org 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

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

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 da...@rysdam.org wrote: I've been at my current position for almost 11

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread David Rysdam
Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org 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

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread Derek Atkins
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org 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

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

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 drive

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 Mark Komarinski
On Jan 7, 2015, at 7:35 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org 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