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Nice work!!!

Another one damn

The contract has been signed already. How do they even end the software ip purchased from weta?

hypothetically if the board faced enormous pressure from the public/investor and decided to reverse their decision, is this theoretically possible?

of course its highly unlikely that board would do that, but I'm just asking if this is theoretically possible?

Thanks for sharing this, that's very insightful.

Thanks for the info, good to know that it's easy to implement from kernel's perspective

Oops, typo :p

True, agree NZ is a great place to work. In fact, I quite enjoy my lockdown-free life in NZ.

Linus is a genius, I don't think I could ever reach his level

Yeah it was a side gig for me, I did spend major of my days for the duration of 2 months last year to work on this.

In fact, I paused on the development of this project for 1-2 year.

But most of the time, it's just 1-2 hour per week side projects on average.

Wow, I didn't know WAND had a github page. I'll get my fork merged with the main repo in that case.

The custom fork basically adds a extra button "Quick Load", since the srec file can be quite large to transfer through serial port to load, so I just implemented extra button to read srec file directly into memory.

:P

Depends on the audience

I did struggle to explain the significance of this project when I was applying for graduate roles, especially to HR people who only look for keywards in CV.

But there are people who appreciate my work.

I got my internship at AWS because my interviewer who had technical background was very impressed with my work, hence the reason I got hired.

Sometimes you just have to find the right audience.

OP here, Yeha I did study in Waikato.

NZ is a very small market compared to the rest of the world, so there is a lot less opportunities here in NZ in terms of number of startups and number of tech firms. The salary is also lower compared to other developed countries. Any software engineer in NZ can easily get a 30-50% salary raise by going to Australia. A lot of talents ran away from NZ because of this.

There are still some exiting companies, for instance, Serko whom I am currently working for is expanding into the international market to seize the post-pandemic opportunities. But overall it's bit stagnant compared to other OECD countries.