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Computer Engineering Major from Brigham Young University. Currently working for HP Enterprise on "The Machine" as a Design Verification Engineer.
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Comment · 2 years ago
Honestly, way less work than you'd think. A couple of months of a few hours per week tinkering. Copilot taught me the typescript and the vscode api is very powerful and well documented. Being able to leverage other extensions already doing the heavy work is a huge benefit (such as DVT for identifying symbol definitions).
Comment · 2 years ago
That's why I use vscode w/ remote ssh. Can't stand input lag on my typing.
Comment · 2 years ago
As someone who's also done a lot of DV and DV tools, I love to see it. This gap was something I took away from attending DVCon last year and seeing all the papers from folks reinventing in the same verif tools.

Feeling inspired after DVCon, I was sick of how annoying our test infrastructure was to interact with so I built a vscode extension as a front end to the existing mature infrastructure. Handles running tests, regressions, opening logs of all kinds, launching vendor tools, jumping to definitions, hover over documentation on all our custom config files, even breakpoints that export to verdi. I've got about 30 people using it now which is pretty neat.

My main learnings are 1) boy it would be tough to make this generic enough to my existing infra without making it lose all the benefits 2) Switching away from my editor is a huge context loss, having tools directly inside my editor keeps everything moving faster.The thought of adding yet another important web page to my browser isn't pleasant. I specifically added features to my extension so I could avoid going to our internal regression results webpage.

Comment · 11 years ago
Hence he said "short term". 2-3 generation from now certainly isn't the short term
Comment · 11 years ago
Exactly. They got early support because of a strong brand they worked hard to create over the last decade. They backed their idea with market research and created something which could be enjoyed from the very beginning. These are important ingredients in their success.
Comment · 11 years ago
If I remember correctly, the XBox was operating at a loss at the beginning. I think it was more than expected that it would take a few years to break into the market.
Comment · 11 years ago
The executives completely renounced the whole dress code thing though. It was some middle manager who though it would be a great idea for his unit and got slammed after it hit public media.
Comment · 11 years ago
Actually ExxonMobile makes that claim still.
Comment · 11 years ago
In my personal use situation, if I want to see a movie from this year I go see it in a movie theater. If I'm just looking for something to watch, I pull up Netflix. Typically I can find something interesting and decent. I don't need popcorn time, because it isn't worth the effort/risk/moral grey area when I have legal paid options. As long as there are no commercials in my Netflix, I'm happy.
Comment · 11 years ago
In my experience, it is always worth showing up, but not always worth paying attention as far as a cost-gain analysis from a student perspective. Showing up ensures that if there is an announcement or hints about labs/homework then you can take advantage of it. Lecture material is often availible elsewhere such as class website or the textbook
Comment · 11 years ago
>We cut people up into individuals, tell them they have no common lot with others, then force feed them a lot of ideology in order to convince them that they are freer the less they care about others and the more they try to accumulate wealth for them'selves'.

This is exactly the opposite of what most "big God" religions teach. I mean Jesus's big messages were "Do unto others" and "Be one". Not going to argue that Christianity didn't stray from that from time to time. But you're starting to go in circles here.

This goes back to the point of the article in the first place which is that "Big God" religions are a counter balance to large structured hierarchical societies.

Comment · 11 years ago
> Management versus worker is an adversarial relationship

This is because the needs of a company are not the needs of an individual.

>Management democratically accountable to labor seems perfectly reasonable

Have you seen the US political system? Do you think if you apply democracy to management then it won't be corrupt? I only see people voting for the manager who promises the biggest benefits.

Comment · 11 years ago
Doesn't sound like you read the article. It states that these things came before, but religion enabled them to expand them to larger societies.
Comment · 11 years ago
There is a good reason why successful cultures have hierarchies. Specialization and structure improve efficiency and standard of living for everyone under it. Do you think companies could do without CEOs?
Comment · 11 years ago
I would agree that social media works for shaming large corporations (brands), but not so much on the micro scale of individual people out of the public spotlight.

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