Can you imagine doing coding back in these days: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/a-deep-dive-into-the-apollo-guidance-computer-and-the-hack-that-saved-apollo-14/
Talk about both time and hardware constraints, oh and people die if you screw up. I wonder what their effective cost per hour (or line of code) was. -----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Robert Sent: Friday, January 31, 2020 11:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] bufferbloat When I was a wee lad working at my first real engineering job in nuclear power, my boss had me sit down and figure out what my actual self-cost was as my very first job for him. I came up with a number like $22/hour. He then showed me what my actual overhead number was, and it came out to like $58 for the company and he told me that the company would be billing me out at over $100. I was astonished. So it's an exercise I still do. Now I am at about $95 all up cost. Much of the work I do is at a loss against that, but I make it up in bulk, LOL. But the time value of money is more like $450 right now. The hours left in life are getting shorter, bank assets are getting longer. Spend more time on fun than work. On 1/31/20 8:41 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: > I think they have integration with common CRM's like Sonar. > > You sound exactly like I sounded 15 years ago. The more stuff I have > to deal with every day, the more I'm ok with outsourcing some of my > troubles to someone else. > > I just paid a guy $800 to replace an exhaust inducer in my furnace. I > know that inducer is $99 and goes in with 4 screws and a hose clamp, > but it's more worth my time to let someone else take care of it so I > can do something else. Same goes for Preseem vs the $300 Linux box. > > I'm not knocking your method. There's a point in the business cycle > where there's more time than there is cash, and it will make sense to > do some more DIY things. I'm just saying the Preseem thing has value > too. > > -Adam > > > On 1/31/2020 11:34 AM, Dev wrote: >> I’m getting spammed like every day with the Preseem guys selling what >> seem like expensive hacks of fq_codel to reduce bufferbloat. Is there >> anything else interesting about their technology besides deploying >> open source implementation of fq_codel or CAKE on commodity hardware, >> which we already do to great effect on a $300 single board Linux box >> with a few ports? I guess they have a pretty dashboard, anyhing other >> than that? > -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
