Don’t take issue with the platform. Take issue with companies that are so fanatical with “we’re a microsoft/java/javascript/esperanto shop!” that they’d cram it into medical devices and nuclear reactor controls before doing some sort of sober domain analysis.

Everything has its own set of problems.

tldr is great. I can’t stand --help output that drones on like Proust.

It’s all fun and games until it returns a “maybe”

I’m not really going to address the speaker directly since after reading NSF forums for a few years, I’m convinced aerospace engineers can devolve any innocent or academic discussion into 4chan levels at rates exceeding the speed of light. Of note: the speaker doesn’t speak to anything specific that is being worked on to address issues, and only addresses “linux” as a whole, which is about as useful as addressing SVR4 as a whole.

I will address the blog writer as not being particularly diligent in filling that gap, though. Here’s a few links of what’s going on in that realm since there’s people here of all walks and ages:

Wind River RTLinux

Zephyr Project

OSADL SIL2LinuxMP

Xenomai

Are you in the US? Try searching https://sam.gov/search for things like “platform”, “application”, “software”, etc and look through the RFPs. States and local governments pump them out, too

In Big 4 we just called them “KPMG consultants”

A more honest code test:

interviewer: “see if you can get this project my nephew made in high school to run”

job: getting the next project their nephew made in high school to run

PREFERRED:

• PhD in quantum cryptography
• 3 years of janitorial services experience
• Proof of current therapist

cries in fortran

Historical note: the golden age of crazy uncle email forwards made me completely reject capitalized sql statements

[init]
defaultBranch = chaos

Don’t sweat looking around in more traditional companies. There are a LOT of big tech and big 4 refugees that chose family over work.

Nope, it’s all light theme with comic sans and small caps for me

It’s a logical or in some languages like cobol that were actively used during the early 17th century

I just want Coke to bring back Tab and Pepsi to introduce a competing drink called Space

Was it (2*b | ! 2*b) or (2*b || ! 2*b) ? It’s been a while since I read his book

They’re very useful for the boilerplate stuff and it’s somewhat rewarding to type out 3-4 letters, hit tab and wind up with half a dozen lines in a bash script or config file.

They tend to get in the way more for complicated tasks, but I have learned to use them as a psychology trick: if I have writer’s block, I just let them pump out something wrong since it’s easier to critique a blob of text than a blank page.