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I have developed firmware for Microchip 18F and Freescale 9S12 microcontrollers. My code is running in utility electric meters, truck instrument panels, locomotive airbrakes, remote environmental monitoring instruments, data communication equipment, and training simulators.

I am unemployed.

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Ask HN: What's your favorite scientific paper? 17 years ago

Lucas Kovar, Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass

[http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html]

Abstract: The exponential dependence of resistivity on temperature in germanium is found to be a great big lie. My careful theoretical modeling and painstaking experimentation reveal 1) that my equipment is crap, as are all the available texts on the subject and 2) that this whole exercise was a complete waste of my time.

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Ask HN: Does system administration dumb down the brain? 17 years ago

From alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ v1.799999999999999998... [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sysadmin-recovery/]

  Perhaps Abby Franquemont summarized the life of a sysadmin the best, when she described us as:

  "disgruntled, disenchanted with things we used to really get a kick out of,
  foul tempered, hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, overworked, with no real social
  life to speak of."

  Or perhaps she was being optimistic.
I have not had responsibility for the operation of a large computer and communication system since the dinosaur era, but I found the work so repetitive and tedious that it motivated me to go back to college and get an EE degree.

Over a decade of lurking on asr shows that some sysadmins preserve sharp perceptions, wide-ranging interests, and pointed communication skills.

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FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers 17 years ago

[attitude=prudent]

I do not want my company's communications disrupted by an FBI raid on a service firm that turned out to be a criminal enterprise. I had best look for a service provider that has been _pre-investigated_ by the government. After all, I have a responsibility to my company's shareholders and customers.

[/attitude]

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Almost Perfect - The Rise and Fall of WordPerfect 17 years ago

"the gold standard" -- Amen. WordPerfect 5.1 fulfilled every one of my (modest) document needs. If I buggered something up, the View Codes mode allowed me to find and fix the embuggerance. I bought Microsoft Office only because response to job postings required resumes in Word .doc format.

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The Right Size 17 years ago

"One day soon there will be car companies that have 200 employees."

And they will all be filling out forms to assure the government that their cars have automatic restraint systems, automatic braking, automatic collision avoidance, automatic position reporting, automatic speed reporting, and police-operated remote shutdown.

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