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It reminds me of that Frank MacSherry paper[1]...

[1] "Scalability! But at what COST?"

Ender's game.

Good thing I stockpiled on Planck boards. All good things have an end I guess.

I have the exact same experience with an EX30. Their entire line of full EVs is a disaster. I will never buy a Volvo again.

I had a similar experience with HardCaml back in 2015/2016. The benefits where overwhelming: higher productivity, higher reusability, less intractable bugs, tighter TTM, and no more slippage in deliverables timeline. The performance where comparable to Verilog-only project (density, path length). In the end, the effort was shut down by management because the approach was “too complicated”.

I believe he means that by better understanding the tools, one better understands the trade.

@saurabhsharan Signed up; my account page is blank and I am not getting any result. I am not getting any way to unlink my accounts or check what is being done with my information. Seems a little fishy so far.

Either your promotion is made of geniuses or as @sk5t said your GPA is indeed meaningless.

Wikileaks believed at the time that Clinton was ready to send a drone to get rid of Assange. Between due process and a drone attack, I take due process any day.

You may be right about the DE -> Fellow promotion, although I only heard of it once, and that person was pretty spectacular. The Fellow -> DE path is unheard of. As is the RSM -> DE. All the DEs I know came from SWG and were STSM.

Re: my “dilution” comment, i was not thinking about DEs. I was thinking about non-technical people (management, law, accounting, ...) that have been creeping up the Fellowship lately. Also the bluewashed executive that were given a fellowship package to seeeten the pot.

The IBM ranks are inaccurate. Fellows are not above DEs. Both are the highest ranks indeed, but of two different tracks. DE is the highest rank of the engineering track, while Fellow is the highest rank of the research track. Fellowship have also be granted to non-research people over the past 20 years, diluting the merit of the title IMHO. Examples of fellows are: John Backus, Gene Amdahl, Ken Iverson, Benoit Mandelbrot, etc.

Both levels may reside in different pay bands, but they are both at the executive level. And DEs cannot become fellows, and vice versa (some exceptions to the rule may have existed).

Yes they are.

I was in undergrad and grad school in Grenoble where I had F. Maraninchi and P. Caspi as teachers for the synchronous programming and VLSI classes (embedded system track). We did a lot of Lustre. It's a pretty great way to get acquainted with synchronous programming and all the fun stuff that derives from it (cf. SDF, code generation, soft/hard real-time, and FPGA programming). Fun times.