1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Nice. Does that go pretty smoothly across different devices? I've never done anything with android, but it seems like a widely used OS with a huge range of actual hardware. Seems like it could be nightmarish.

 

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Yep. The winding little road on HWY 16 between Alread and Clinton.

 

shit, I drove through Conway just after sunset

 

Python (lots of django and pandas) and bash for the most part, with a few slivers of java (I don't know java, but I can fake it) and more NiFi than I want. I come from embedded development, so I'm kind of itching to get back into C (masochist at heart, I guess).

Travel is nice because its a change of pace. I struggle with same-old-same-old, especially this year, travel breaks things up into chunks.

 

Ah ok. Nice. I rode the Tail of the Pig north of Ozark some years ago and was wondering if it might be that. AR is beautiful though, need to visit more.

 

I'm from Little Rock originally. Then moved to Oklahoma City, then to New York City/NJ, then to Tampa FL, then back. I've been moved.

 

oh god embedded development. I had to learn MIPS and do shit for that and also write a paging implementation for an arduino project and i wanted to die

 

How did you like the NE in comparison? It must have felt like a different world

 

The pig trail looks like that too. Common scenery in the north-western part.

 

Yeah its...something. I've had embedded projects that felt great from the get go, and then there were ones where I just wanted to cry a month in because I'd been fighting buggy i2c implementations for weeks (I'm looking at you, STM32...).

Maybe I just like inhaling solder smoke or something

 

you must be a very patient man. is that what you've always done?

 

I liked the northeast. NY/NJ was fun. I enjoyed it for what it was. I met up with a nice looking Cuban/Italian woman in NJ. Had a big NYC wedding. Three kids. Did it all.

 

I've bounced around a lot. Air conditioner testing and diagnostic tools in VB.net right out of college, then pulsed power electrical engineering and wind turbines in grad school, then railroad signalling with a railroad, then embedded devices for radiation detection, then 2.5 years of freelance/unemployment/travel, now back in the rr business, but on the supplier side. All in ~10 years.

My patience varies, thats for sure. Its gotten better as I've gotten older, mostly because when I get impatient, I just kneecap future-me.

How'd you get into tech?

 

Not much to see from the interstate, unfortunately. The backroads going north are the most fun.

 

You can easily take care of that pain if you take the lower part of your neck and with great vigor, slam it into the edge of your kitchen counter.







Your back will stop hurting if you're a quadriplegic

 

Thats one of those 'read the entire set of instructions first' scenarios.

 

I might be a masochist but if I wanted to live a life of pain i wouldn't have to change anything

 

damn I wish I could read

 

my parents were super strict growing up and discouraged me from working in the trades even though i was interested in mechanics and fabrication. the one area i had to explore was computers so i grew up writing mods and hacks for video games. I went to school to be a mechanical engineer with a minor in computer science but I was really struggling with the engineering courses and the software ones were way more interesting to me. I ended up to switching to computer science with a minor in economics/business instead.

 

damn, yeah, sounds like it has worked out well for you. the winters up there must have been a big change though