jeff_marshall

Ublock Origin (or equivalent) compatibility is a deal-breaker for me.

The reaction here is interesting, but it won't change my opinion without concrete feedback. Please tell me why this opinion is wrong.

Yes, as well as some lower-level software. (sharing portions of a PCI BAR region isn't trivial in a hypervisor, when multiple guests are involved).

Mixing safety criticality levels is hard.

This kind of question is a gold mine, IME. When I interview network protocol devs, my favorite question is:

"tell me what happens between the time you type something into the address bar and when you see a result". so many opportunities to show understanding at various levels there.

> The misunderstanding first...we are not selling anyone to anything. We have no involvement in finding you the job, we are not recruiters, we are not headhunters. So we have no alignment with anyone other than YOU.

How do you get paid? ... and the obvious corollary, why should I trust that our interests are aligned? (either as a candidate or a hiring manager?)

Xilinx has being doing CPU+FPGA for longer than that. I did some C runtime enhancements for the PPC 440 included in the FX70 for a product made by a former employer (shadow stacks for better CFI, more locked down MMU use, etc).

Is any employee of Docker, inc. critical to your use of containers? Is any copyrighted, non-OSS Docker, inc. code critical to your operations?

Where does the money go.

>No, those are all policy choices we made.

Who is "we"?

I doubt it. I certainly don't recall being asked, and I'm in a privileged position, relatively speaking.

I'd be curious to see how I could participate in the current environment.

How large is large? Hiring junior engineers or developers definitely happens in companies smaller than FB or GOOG.

Perhaps you mean something specific by "capable"?

I won't disagree that c++ (as a technology) can be a minefield, but this also holds for many technologies and markets (civil aviation being a great example).

I may have missed an implicit /s, for which I apologize in adavance...

Do you watch professional sports (football, basketball, etc)?

Watching competitive video games (starcraft 2 is my favorite) has a similar appeal, to me. If you don't watch any sports, than the appeal of esports may not make sense to you.

Of course, twitch is bigger than esports, but each viewer category has their own needs & content that fills them.

Thanks for the references - I'll look into them, I'm definitely interested in multi-tool workflows given my experience (systems programmers aren't necessarily mathematicians). If only the systems programmer could be pointed at tools that don't have horrible false positive rates ... ;)

Yeah, dealing with vendors can be frustrating, for sure.

I'm still a little sad about the I-178 eval, since a lot of the work I saw done by RC was quite good, if limited in scope. Seeing The vendor (imo) misrepresent that effort to sell other software was rather disappointing to someone who had (at the time) just spent a couple years jumping on the formal methods bandwagon.

I'm also not particularly happy with the trend towards process, rather than results based evals. (DO-178, and CSFC, I'm looking at you), but I can see how we got here after the EAL7 well was poisoned.

Regarding the arxiv link on verification methods, I'd be careful reading too much into the summary tables. The authors don't appear to have done their homework there (they overstate the C&A accomplishments of the company I work at and our competitors).

On an unrelated note, I'm pleasantly surprised to see a tech report I contributed to as an undergrad cited - How on earth did they find it?

True enough, but so what? Who among us will claim that monetary success is not based on circumstance? Certainly not me.