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I love my job, I really do. Everybody get's along, I am 3~ months in and already have the engineering department on board with me becoming lead architect of the rewrite of our product. That being said; I am just in a stop gap right now of fixing some very old, very lovely code to the point where we can release it and then move on to the new hotness, and it's during that stop gap that I get to see the sheer volume of obscured code that well, 90% of the time works fine and isn't exactly a horror, but it's still not great, well organized, or designed very well. There are some legitimate coding horrors in the pile of code I have ran upon, but for the most part it's all been fairly OK. But hey, at least I have put everybody on MS Project. We tried a bunch of other programs (both web based and desktop based) and Project with Project server is the only one that works for everybody. Before that they had no project management at all! 
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ChickenWing posted:I acutally was recently upgraded to a 6-core@3.4ghz Xeon machine with 32GB RAM and a 256GB SSD What's up Xeon/32GB/SSD buddy.  I have the exact same setup except a 500gb ssd.
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Nov 25, 2015 17:51
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The gigantic project I am working on had no automated test API's. I finally said gently caress it and started writing them. 
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Volmarias posted:I cannot imagine the level of fuckery involved in writing unit tests for embedded C stuff. I'm a embedded Linux engineer; so it's not that hard. 
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Dec 9, 2015 15:32
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Volmarias posted:I mean more the excitingly unpredictable nature of your compiler, etc Oh! I haven't had too many issues yet with compilers. Every once in a while I will run into union tom-foolary, but that's usually with TI DSP bullshit.
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Dec 9, 2015 15:56
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What is wrong with gant charts and a simple research -> implementation setup? Why do companies think they need to reinvent everything?
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Dec 23, 2015 13:10
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:Gantt charts are useless because nobody really knows how long stuff is going to take to implement past a couple of weeks - the chart is also evidence that you don't know what you're talking about because the dates it shows are incorrect. Now if you start calling two weeks periods "sprints" and story points "days", and get rid of the chart, you don't have to move the bars in microsoft project anymore - this saves the project manager time that can be spent doing something more useless like calling useless meetings or drinking. This makes sense, because I do a lot of project management and I want to call useless meetings WHILE drinking a lot more than I do; however I turn everything into tiny bite sized chunks and make a Gantt chart instead. 
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Dec 23, 2015 14:09
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Now just get into embedded Linux kernel development.  Once you do you get a free dog collar and nipple clamps!
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Jan 22, 2016 14:34
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I am in charge of a new project that is upgrading our old product + RTOS into a new board + Linux. The first question I had was "Where are the cad schematics." The first answer I got was "We don't have those and the people we contracted out to never made them/don't have them." 
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Feb 17, 2016 03:58
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Ithaqua posted:This is awful and wrong. Do either of you go to meetings? Do you use the bathroom? Do you take breaks? Adding to this: If you think it will take 160 hours, double it.
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Mar 8, 2016 14:49
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Illegal Move posted:In case anybody is interested, this is the e-mail we get at my office when we haven't logged 8 hours every day: Holy poo poo I would just put "lol" in the missing fields. Thank god I'm WFH and Salaried. I gently caress off for around 2 hours a day, but am more productive at home than when I am at the office.
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MisterZimbu posted:I think we need to implement code reviews for the solely so the other developers will spell their class/file names correctly and tab poo poo in consistently. Spelling sure, but why not pump the code through a auto-formatter?
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Apr 11, 2016 16:22
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Infinotize posted:We have one of these and I cannot comprehend why we want to pay someone vast sums to read wikipedia articles to us. Seems like we are in the wrong business!
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Apr 13, 2016 18:24
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What in the gently caress? Why aren't they using git like the rest of the same world?
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Apr 15, 2016 22:41
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Awesome stuff I am architecting right now: I am currently working on the new generation of products for my company, and they will all be running embedded Linux. I was able to convince management to let me take a extra two months to integrate a complete HAL layer into the Linux Kernel pertaining to our hardware that will work in conjunction with our future DTB files. This will allow us to have a single build among all of our new products going into the next generation, and it's going to be awesome.
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May 3, 2016 17:20
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Slack is the best solution I have found so far for business chat.
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I am working on a new product and we are using the wandboard as our development platform. I spend 30+ hours trying to figure out why i2c wasn't working properly. Their dts file for the imx6 solo variant has: C code:C code:
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May 23, 2016 19:39
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The sheer amount of programmers that program in C/C++ that have absolutely no idea how memory works is mind loving boggling to me. 
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Jun 28, 2016 16:32
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Munkeymon posted:How do you mean? Like they don't think/care about cache optimization or what? Like, they don't understand you have to free memory that you allocate. That there are efficient ways to use memory. God help you if you try to mention stack vs heap.
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Jun 28, 2016 17:55
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Ahh but do they at least try to initialize or write to it before they read and make decisions off of it? That's progress! That IS true! Volmarias posted:Dehumanize yourself and face towards embedded programming Even worse; I do embedded Linux programming. 
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Jun 28, 2016 23:33
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necrobobsledder posted:Let me take a wild guess - your coworkers are mechanical or electrical engineers originally? Web programmers.
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Jun 29, 2016 14:18
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Munkeymon posted:Oh right - you're the guy in the secfuck thread who talks about trying to make actually secure embedded linux products. Goonspeed That's me! It's possible; it's just that the entire embedded Linux industry doesn't give a poo poo about security because the entire industry came from RtOS land where they had "security" through obscurity. Pollyanna posted:I'm so sorry. Thank you.
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My programming career starting out really odd. I was the "Linux guy" to my best friend. I hadn't used Linux in about 6 years, and my friend was working for a tiny 3 man company that sold engineering services specializing in RtOS development. I had no programming experience nor engineering experience and never applied at his work; however one day he called me out of the blue and said "Hey, we need a Linux guy, we just inherited a project and it runs off of Linux and I don't know anybody! It will be just for a few weeks, can you help?" Well, I was unemployed and a extra grand was all the money in the world to me. Those "few" weeks turned into 6 years as I was thrown into the land of embedded Linux and kernel code. My former boss who has been doing board layout/coding/electrical engineering for over 30 years decided that I had a knack at programming and decided to mentor me in C/C++ and good programming habits. For 6 years he taught me as much as he could, and thanks to him I have a career. Even after his business fell apart and I had to move to Michigan, I was able to get him contract work at my new place for board layout/firmware programming, same with my best friend who introduced me to him. It's weird how things turn out in life, and I thank my lucky stars every day at how things fell into place. I basically got paid to have a 1 on 1 education with a highly skilled EE for 6 years.
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libsepol uses <sys/cdefs.h> I sent a patch upstream to fix it, but Jesus Christ, why are they using internal c library headers?
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Jul 8, 2016 18:13
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Replacement for me is at training until next week and I was asked to go back to my old project and work on a importer. I spent all day yesterday setting poo poo up again to actually work on the old project. Super productive!
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I usually goof off about an hour per day, there have been a lot of studies that show after 35 hours your productivity goes to poo poo.
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Slash posted:actual requirements lmbo
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Somebody already posted the book, so I'll just post some anecdotes from having to do literally the same thing--refactor lovely EE code--for a living: This is all excellent advice. I have inhereted several messes, and not once has "rebuilding it from scratch" worked. In addition to doing what he said above, I also have started doing this: 1) Start writing unit tests for EVERYTHING, I mean it, EVER SINGLE THING you can find. 2) Start refactoring code little by little. Eventually it will start to look good. 3) Get a automated test server. I like gitlab runner personally, and use it all the time.
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I spent an entire day trying to figure out why a script I made for customer service for a huge order wasn't working. I had smashed a )) instead of ) into a config file.
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Portland Sucks posted:Great timing. I've been working on #7 for the last day and its enough to literally give me iterative nightmares. I talked to my boss about doing a lot of this and he told me "you know sometimes it is better to just rush it and get the product out rather than taking the time to do it the right way the first time -- we don't want to miss our window of opportunity. Maybe we can revisit doing it your way once we've got a working product." He's not wrong.
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Pollyanna posted:It's fine if you take some time after it's working to refactor. Unfortunately, companies tend not to do that and instead just pile on more features over and over while ignoring developers' pleas for help and mercy ToxicSlurpee posted:Take a wild guess how soon there will be time found for refactoring. "We'll make it suck less later when we have time" is a leading cause of technical debt. Very little. I know it sucks, but at the end of the day, great code is awesome, but it doesn't sell unless its in a sellable product.
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Tomorrow I get to tell management that you can't expect board bringup to happen in less than a month. 
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ratbert90 posted:Tomorrow I get to tell management that you can't expect board bringup to happen in less than a month. The intermittent manager tried to tell me "I'm not allowed to put my foot down." Hey guess what? You can't be 2 months late on delivering hardware and then expect me to still get everything done with 2 less months. I have had this poo poo pulled on me in the past, and I refuse to let it happen again. It's nice to be the senior engineer. I don't choose too many hills to fight on, but this one is a big one.
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JawnV6 posted:Your foot down or not, the project isn't going to make up 2 months of lost time because the itinerant said so. I've been in the situation where manager stack up meetings to understand why delays didn't magically evaporate when something transitioned to a new team, good on you. Thanks, he's not happy and set up a meeting for next Monday with the higher ups, but I already have every other engineer on this project agreeing with me. The timeline right now is equivalent to "here's a alpha board you have 3 weeks to get it up and running with 7 custom drivers and software that integrates with it, also we have provisioned no time in the event that there are any hardware issues with this 8 layer incredibly complex board. " Not going to happen bub. FlapYoJacks fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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Skandranon posted:"gently caress it, I'm not fixing that mess, I'm just getting in and out with my bug fix as fast as possible. Hopefully I am no longer here when the whole thing implodes." This; this is the correct answer. - Some idiot creates a gigantic class of poo poo. - Idiot leaves - New guy gets stuck with gigantic class and BUGS ARE AFFECTING PRODUCTION!!!1!!! - New guy never gets enough time to actually fix the class. goto 1 FlapYoJacks fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Aug 26, 2016 |
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Finally getting around to fixing the git portion of our ancient code base. 4 gigs down to 125 megs. With a combination of a tiny python script, git bfg, and git lfs, magic happened here today.
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Vulture Culture posted:Controversial opinion incoming: everyone should regularly be doing some amount of manual testing. This isn't controversial at all. There are some tests that can't be done by way of automation.
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baquerd posted:Depends on the app. A simple, stand-alone RESTful microservice can be 100% automated testing and deployment. Which wouldn't include some of the tests that can't be done by way of automation? 
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God drat it. I got a PHY to identify itself, but it won't send out network traffic. The TX clock is all hosed up and I'm not sure why. 
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I have a coworker Who is a good guy But messages Me on slack like This constantly and doesn't Think to just write a single Sentence.
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