"My hands are tied. Even though I want to use OpenGL 3.x, I can't. The specs say OpenGL 1. So, can you help me with OpenGL 1 or not?"
I was a programmer, and now I'm a DBA. When I ask for help, people understand that -- for example -- when I say "the machine runs SQL Server 2008R2" that there's zero chance of upgrading to v2012 or v2014 just to solve one itsy problem: there's too much effort involved in QAing a huge production environment.
Why do people always as WHY someone wants something?!
Excellent question, young Padawan.
People often ask for help, assuming an answer and thus embedding it in the question. The experienced helper asks probing questions to see what the asker really wants, and then asks that question. When you're older, you'll understand.
In this case specifically, embedded development typically requires specific "non-consumer" I/O requirements that little hobbyist systems just don't support. Thus, saying BeagleBoard or Udoo or RaspberryPi would steer him wrong.
OTOH, maybe he just doesn't know WTF "embedded" really means and is just tossing out the buzzword du jure, when a used laptop would serve his needs much better.
It's my understanding that "install a bunch of gnu tools" is the first thing that many Solaris sysadmins do on a new system.
Anyway, why do you need a low-power ARM system? The description heading mentions "embedded", but your description mentions irrelevant stuff like Solaris, but not the important stuff like what sort of embedded work you'll be doing: industrial control, point-of-sale, sensor monitoring, etc, etc ad nauseum.
It, like COBOL, is only bad if you make it bad. (Shelly & Cashman -- may their non-existent souls burn in non-existent Hell for all eternity! -- made COBOL bad. Real experts in the language showed me how good and capable it (even the much maligned COBOL-74) the language. -85 was even better.)
I like Python, but BASIC on a C-64 VM is what they should first learn.
No need to become an expert in it; maybe just 1/2 of a semester. But with line numbers analogous to memory addresses, GOTO essentially a branch, and GOSUB like subr, they'd get a better sense of what is actually happening in the "h/w", before going to a super-HLL like Python.
what I care about is whether the applicant's skills are a match for what I need to get done.
I'd bet a dime that GP has a large code base to be maintained, whereas your team in writing lots of new apps which don't need lots of specialized application knowledge.
I just "celebrated" 20 years with the same division (though it's been sold a time or two). Started as a programmer but have been a DBA for 15 years. It's been a pretty good place to work, especially since I've been telecommuting for 14 of them.
It is indeed, although it's probably not a physical activity that would be considered to improve your physical fitness.
This is why "normal" people hate nerds & geeks.
Obviously, 12oz curls are a physical activity, but no one in their right, non-Aspergers minds actually calls it a "physical activity" in the sense used by everyone except pedantic ass-wipes. (No, that is not an ad hominem attack, because I have facts and definitions on my side.
So, sitting on the couch, doing "12oz curls", is physical activity....
I'll go tell all the psychiatrists & psychologists that/. says they're actually physical therapists, and mathematicians are actually performing vigorous physical activity when they're thinking really hard.
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When the one was changed to a coin it took the spot that the single occupied
But since the US never stopped making the $1 bill nor penny, there's no room for the $2 bill not $1 coin.
Apparently USians don't like them.
Merchants don't like them because there's no room in the cash drawer. Same with the $1 coin.
Get ride of the penny and $1 bill and there would be room for the $1 coin and $2 bill.
What happens instead is that people latch on to some irrelevant detail in your context
Maybe I just work in an area of IT where such Aspergers jerks are minimal.
How you should use shaders...
"My hands are tied. Even though I want to use OpenGL 3.x, I can't. The specs say OpenGL 1. So, can you help me with OpenGL 1 or not?"
I was a programmer, and now I'm a DBA. When I ask for help, people understand that -- for example -- when I say "the machine runs SQL Server 2008R2" that there's zero chance of upgrading to v2012 or v2014 just to solve one itsy problem: there's too much effort involved in QAing a huge production environment.
but when I'm asking about some detail
Can you really not figure out that the solution to such a problem is to add more detail to your question, indicating what you've already researched?
Methinks more people should read "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way".
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise
Why do people always as WHY someone wants something?!
Excellent question, young Padawan.
People often ask for help, assuming an answer and thus embedding it in the question. The experienced helper asks probing questions to see what the asker really wants, and then asks that question. When you're older, you'll understand.
In this case specifically, embedded development typically requires specific "non-consumer" I/O requirements that little hobbyist systems just don't support. Thus, saying BeagleBoard or Udoo or RaspberryPi would steer him wrong.
OTOH, maybe he just doesn't know WTF "embedded" really means and is just tossing out the buzzword du jure, when a used laptop would serve his needs much better.
So, we ask probing questions.
It's my understanding that "install a bunch of gnu tools" is the first thing that many Solaris sysadmins do on a new system.
Anyway, why do you need a low-power ARM system? The description heading mentions "embedded", but your description mentions irrelevant stuff like Solaris, but not the important stuff like what sort of embedded work you'll be doing: industrial control, point-of-sale, sensor monitoring, etc, etc ad nauseum.
Otherwise, it IS my business so long as I'm paying for YOUR elected activities with MY tax dollars/
You're replying to a post that doesn't mention who pays for it.
Morons. I'm surrounded by fucking morons; literally!!!
Then why aren't you finding new people to surround yourself with?
a bad intermediate language
It, like COBOL, is only bad if you make it bad. (Shelly & Cashman -- may their non-existent souls burn in non-existent Hell for all eternity! -- made COBOL bad. Real experts in the language showed me how good and capable it (even the much maligned COBOL-74) the language. -85 was even better.)
I like Python, but BASIC on a C-64 VM is what they should first learn.
No need to become an expert in it; maybe just 1/2 of a semester. But with line numbers analogous to memory addresses, GOTO essentially a branch, and GOSUB like subr, they'd get a better sense of what is actually happening in the "h/w", before going to a super-HLL like Python.
You think that they get funding from poor people?
Government, you ninny.
Anyway, I was being facetious, since the number of poor people is rising.
Planned Parenthood chipping up as many poor people as they can, perhaps?
But that would reduce the Democrat Party's base, thus reducing PP's funding. (MOAR illegal immigration!)
What "they" need to develop is a chip that releases "sperm poison".
How many of these does the public have to fund before NASA admits
For how many years do you have to go back to school before you understand that ESA != NASA?
Being a European probe, once landed it will ...
Moan and bitch about Spirit & Opportunity spying on it, while in turn spying on economically valuable sectors of Spirit & Opportunity.
what I care about is whether the applicant's skills are a match for what I need to get done.
I'd bet a dime that GP has a large code base to be maintained, whereas your team in writing lots of new apps which don't need lots of specialized application knowledge.
Corporate America took this from us
I just "celebrated" 20 years with the same division (though it's been sold a time or two). Started as a programmer but have been a DBA for 15 years. It's been a pretty good place to work, especially since I've been telecommuting for 14 of them.
No kids? Or running from court-ordered child-support payments?
Or with the signal bars and a bit of driving.
If this is for looking up hidden SSIDs, then why not ping looking for know-hidden SSIDs?
Except that this protocol was designed long ago.
I called my "The NSA"
How clever you must feel for sticking to The Man.
for some insane reason named his after his address.
Why is that insane?
It is indeed, although it's probably not a physical activity that would be considered to improve your physical fitness.
This is why "normal" people hate nerds & geeks.
Obviously, 12oz curls are a physical activity, but no one in their right, non-Aspergers minds actually calls it a "physical activity" in the sense used by everyone except pedantic ass-wipes. (No, that is not an ad hominem attack, because I have facts and definitions on my side.
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/phys/ Physical activity is any body movement that works your muscles and requires more energy than resting.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sport an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/sport An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others
I don't have the exact numbers
Right, because there are no numbers showing what you are hoping can be pulled out of your arse.
So, sitting on the couch, doing "12oz curls", is physical activity....
I'll go tell all the psychiatrists & psychologists that /. says they're actually physical therapists, and mathematicians are actually performing vigorous physical activity when they're thinking really hard.
So... show me where my reasoning is flawed.