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So, in other words you're probably better than 75% of people claiming to know python or C#?
What do you do?
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Probably - They aren't even on my resume though. I am no fool. I got called out for assembly being on my resume and thank god I was able to walk through assembly code with the interviewer.
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Vinen
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No kidding. I'd just do a small personal project to figure out the syntax and you should be fine to interview for the same level or higher than your current job. Hardware programming is 100x harder then application development.
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Funny side note. My wifes mom also lived through the cultural revolution. She's pretty blown away when she's here, our house being bigger than her entire apartment building when she grew up. However, many of her roots are still here: She gardens in the back yard, and we grow a ton of food based on mini-gardens she's set up throughout our back yard. It's kinda weird, but it's nice at the same time never having to buy peaches, garlic, potatoes, tomatos, etc. My wife insists on giving her mom money too, which doesn't bother me. My wife makes well over 100k a year, so even when her mom is in China we can completely support her on less than 10k a year (although that is rapidly becoming not the case).
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My father-in law did gardening before he was diagnosed with cancer (hes a cancer survivor now!... 9 months of treatment up here in Boston). He has some crazy system setup at his house in Alabama (her parents came here to do medical research at UAB).
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Yea, I definitely need to know how hardware works. I can see why anyone hiring a software developer would give a shit about if a guy knows how to build a circuit board.
You know why software developers even with PhDs don't know much about hardware? Because they don't need to. Get the fuck outta here with that shit.
"When I'm looking to hire someone to clean my house it counts for a lot more if they also know how to kinda fix my plumbing."
You know why software developers even with PhDs don't know much about hardware? Because they don't need to. Get the fuck outta here with that shit.
"When I'm looking to hire someone to clean my house it counts for a lot more if they also know how to kinda fix my plumbing."
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I know how hardware works at such an intimate level that all the magic of computers is gone. Childhood dreams crushed.
Cad
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A smart guy can learn that stuff on the fly so fast it'd make "experienced" developers blush. None of that shit is "hard".
So, Noodle might be fucked. But a smart guy would be ok!
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Remember it will cost your company 5 times your base salary to replace you.
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I don't know yet - in fact, I'm not sure I want to switch yet or not which is the problem. It's tough to feel good about what I'm doing here, that's all I know. I might even re-apply to my old company in the future - that place felt good to work at.
I'm looking at places like Google and Facebook developing their own hardware, so maybe that's worth a look.
I'm too much of a hardware guy at heart to really think about all the options out there that aren't in hardware.
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Haha, OK dude. I do not write software for hardware. In fact, 99% of software development jobs and projects don't take hardware into account at all because they are written to be hardware and even OS agnostic to an extent. They are written for people to use on most any computer and no knowledge of hardware is needed, this isn't 1990. You're completely delusional and the more you speak about things in this and the Comp Sci thread the more full of shit you sound.
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Lol... you write software for a layer of the OS, not to the hardware. If you know the difference then go back to school.
The only ones who write software to the hardware are "drivers developers" which is what Noodle is doing right now" .
"You write software to the hardware".. that is one outdated statement.
Creating drivers is such a small segment of the market ..
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Noddle, the case in point has zero software years, and 3 hardware years... will you hire him at 90k?
Take your strawmen somewhere else.
Khane
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The only idiot here is you. You must be a world class bullshitter if what you claim about your current position is true.