Future Front Page Perpetrator?
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
They do ... strange things, let's say, to TCP connections.
I wouldn't care if they left the HTTP contents alone. They don't. And their "HTTP optimizations" fail under certain circumstances, which results in broken responses being forwarded. It's a nightmare.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
Microwave clocks still have to format data, specifically time information, for human readability. ;)
Not to mention, connected microwaves probably get their time from a NTP server, so...
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@acrow said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
Massive data: I don't know what exactly you need for this. I don't want to know either, since it's as far from my world as it's possible to get.
Not really. Some of the large supercomputers are looking at running as effectively megaclusters of embedded processors. For very big data though, you're really working on how to move computation (well, basic filtering and summarization mostly) to the data so that you can get things small enough to bring back to a more central location. Also, in big data circles there's sometimes a need to deal with big complexity, with just stupid levels of variation in detail making thing awkward. That's just deeply bleah.
IME, a separate class of “different programming” is numerics-intense code, which is rather different to what most programmers are used to; the usual math assumptions do not apply, and you need to be vastly more careful than normal.
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@levicki said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
He seems a perfect fit for Visual Studio dev team.
Seriously, find me one single IDE that does what you're talking about.
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@Carnage said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
@Carnage said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
toy problems for the most part.
The most complicated piece of software I wrote in college was a calculator that basically (if I did the assignment according to the instructions) supported four functions. Maybe. And, a "jukebox" that used an embedded Windows Media Player control to play two hard-coded files in sequence.
Naturally, I went way above and beyond. My calculator supported everything the Simple view of Windows' calculator, including history log and memory storage. The Jukebox application supported scanning a folder (default to the user's Music folder as specified by the registry) for all known playable types, playlist management including add/remove/reorder, shuffling, repeat one/all, and save/load.
My studies were for game development engineer, and apart from the small and large team projects we had, every bit of code written was a small toy problem. Granted, the toys might be complex, like neural nets, or graphs, but they were very small and contained bit's of code, which entirely side steps the code quality and readability of programming.
I think I could do most of the practical bits of the classes in one week for each class now. A few years after having started working I found some old code from my student days, and it took me and another guy a week of work to produce it, and now I'd say I'd have the code written in a day. And it'd be a lot better as well. And have unit tests. In a language I haven't used before, just to make it a tiny bit fair to student me.My degree does not even have a single mention of software/computer/engineer in it and yet, I did something messing around in C++/OpenGL for my graduation thesis. I swear that the crap of mine is sitting inside a forgotten old usb stick that might have been trashed.
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@WPT said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
My degree does not even have a single mention of software/computer/engineer in it and yet, I did something messing around in C++/OpenGL for my graduation thesis.
I've mentioned before that my Senior Project included attempting (unsuccessfully) to port chip design software from one version of UNIX to another and from one display device to another vector graphics terminal. It also included a C program to simulate the logic of the chip (that was the reason I learned C) and one to translate the file output by the chip design program (CIF — a text file describing the geometry of each layer of the chip) to a plotter file (HP-GL — also a text description of the geometry the plotter should draw) for documentation.
I swear that the crap of mine is sitting inside a forgotten old usb stick that might have been trashed.
Mine is on 5.25" floppies, in Word for DOS 3(?) and HP-GL. I still have the floppies but no drive that can read them. It's entirely possible bit rot has rendered them unreadable, even if I did have a floppy drive and software for such an old version of Word.
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@HardwareGeek said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
@WPT said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
I swear that the crap of mine is sitting inside a forgotten old usb stick that might have been trashed.
Mine is on 5.25" floppies, in Word for DOS 3(?) and HP-GL. I still have the floppies but no drive that can read them. It's entirely possible bit rot has rendered them unreadable, even if I did have a floppy drive and software for such an old version of Word.
Half of mine is printed into Appendix B of my thesis, sitting on the shelves of the university library, a few friends and family (required minimum print run was 5 copies), and the digital publishing archive the university subscribes to. Some 250 lines of C, if I recall.
The other half, a metric ton of Arduino C++, is somewhere in my archives, sitting on my file server (with an ancient - though still up-to-date on this particular item - backup on my home desktop).
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@WPT said in Future Front Page Perpetrator?:
My degree does not even have a single mention of software/computer/engineer in it and yet, I did something messing around in C++/OpenGL for my graduation thesis. I swear that the crap of mine is sitting inside a forgotten old usb stick that might have been trashed.
Searching... Ah! Got it! My senior project was a .Net application incorporating a fingerprint scanner, MySQL database, and serial connection to a MCU to control the delivery and verification of medication from pill dispensers. Literally two of my classes before then did anything to do with that, and only tangentially because serial communications was only really briefly touched on from the microcontroller class. I may have talked about it sometime in the past here...
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