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Noticed your timestamp. Having a hard time sleeping?
From what I'm seeing , it depends on how much they want and what they are willing to pay for you.
At my ex job, a year and a half ago, they had two type of hires:
The craigslist folks.. which usually did most of the heavy pulling.
For us craigslist folks, we had a low paycheck ( startup.. ), 2 weeks PTO, basic healthcare after the first 6 months, and a basic 401k after the 1st year of being with them.
And the primadonas:
The owners wanted to sell the company but they thought it wasn't appealing to investors since the driving force mostly had an unknown background. Thus they went to various prestigious universities to gather "talent". So for these straight off the college benches the job offer looked like:
1. Fly in business to NYC for interview with stay at a high class hotel in downtown manhan.
2. Relocation package: 1st month hotel paid by the company, 2 months worth of your pay as a signup bonus.
3. Close to 40% more on signup than the craigslist crowd.
4. Team lead, key position.
5. Holiday bonuses.
6. 401k after 6 months of work, immediate healthcare.
7. Conferences, paid training, etc.
Got all these at a holiday party when people open their hearths and share knowledge.. And then I quit.
At my new job I got:
1. relocation bonus.
2. 15 days of PTO first year, 22 days of PTO second year.
3. Immediate full healthcare + dental, 401k after the 6 first months.
4. They have good food perks, unlimited coffee, soda, snacks, sweets, and a fridge full of icecream.
Periodically they bring in pizza, bagels, fruit.
5. Paid paternity/ maternity leave for close to half a year.. but I'm not at that age yet.. lol..
Neither companies put too much value on actual office presence. And both have "flexible hours".
Wish they would have paid for classes, and extra training but they don't.
Point is, if you have the chip to bargain, stretch it as much as you can. If they offer low pay ask for more PTO to balance it out, for example. And don't get attached to them, cause from what I learned, the last people to leave a company when things go south are the owners and the marketing people, in contrast to what one might think, us programmers are among the first to be laid off.
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it was late morning, I don't live in the colonies (or you were posting late at night)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Lol.. since it's a job + benefit question, I immediately assumed you're "from the colonies", where meritorious rights are an every day topic in the american way of life.. or so it seams. Hope you're doing better from the last post.
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The answer is BLACKSPOT
Surprised this wasn't solved.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Probably because I still can't figure it out given the answer..?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Bishop - B
has no -lack
spot - grass
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Close! POT is the Grass!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I hesitate to ask why?
(He said, indicating he knows nothing at all about any form of illegal narcotics, officer)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Bishop B
has no LACKS
grass POT
in this hazardous area
BLACKSPOT
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Dalek Dave wrote: Bishop has no grass in this hazardous area.
Dalek Dave wrote: BLACKSPOT
That was damn easy, wondering why nobody got that 
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Shameel wrote: That was damn easy, wondering why nobody got tha
Like the lottery numbers, once I see them I always think "I could have picked those".
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Have you seen the new Raspberry Pi thing RS just emailed me about it, will have to have better look seems to be designed to run headless... The Raspberry PI Compute module 
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Hello!
No I don't think I have, I'll go have a look.......
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Looks quite fancy. If you are going to this extreme you wonder if it would be better to move towards: http://www.parallella.org/[^]
Depends on the use case I suppose.
Raspberry Pi Compute Module
Raspberry Pi Compute is a SODIMM format module containing only the basic processor/RAM elements of a Raspberry Pi Model B, plus a Flash memory chip. All processor I/O are accessible via a 200-pin edge connector. The Compute module plugs into an I/O board providing a range of standard connectors for development purposes. A variety of 'boot' methods are available depending on the presence or otherwise of a host computer plugged into a microUSB socket, the state of a GPIO pin and a jumper link. The Raspberry Pi Compute module is aimed at industrial design engineers for integration into production embedded applications.
Raspberry Pi Compute Module
Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS processor with FPU and VideoCore IV dual-core GPU
GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and DMA infrastructure
512MB SDRAM
4GB eMMC MLC Flash memory (Replaces Flash memory card of standard Raspberry Pi)
Access to all I/O via 200-pin edge connector
Dimensions: 67 x 31mm 200-pin SODIMM format
Raspberry Pi Compute I/O Board
Provides standard I/O sockets for the Compute module
200-pin SODIMM connector for Compute module
4 x 30-pin headers (46 x GPIO, I2C bus, camera plus power and ground pins)
GPIO logic level selected by jumper link to 1.8V or 3.3V
HDMI socket
USB-A socket
microUSB socket for booting from attached host
microUSB socket for power supply
2 x CSI camera connectors (Requires adapter for Raspberry Pi video cameras, supplied with kit)
2 x DSI display connectors
Footprint for JTAG connector
Power LED
Boot Status LED
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Well it seemed over kill to me, if you are going to use the Hardware to that extent there are other 'easier' cheaper means...
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It does, but if you are heavy into rapid prototyping, it is platforms like this that allow you to quickly develop early protos to evaluate whether you would take them to next level.
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Plus, having the "heavy lifting work" done of the high speed parts (processor / memory interface for example) makes the slower speed parts such as the IO a lot easier and cheaper to design. You can just plug in known working processor modules and your custom hardware is ready to go in a couple of weeks.
Layout of processors and suchlike gets expensive in man-hours as the speeds rise!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The way we do it, is take a known processor (tends to be PIC) and find the closest match (PWM, A to D Convertors, etc) and go from there...
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That's fine, and it works well for low speed devices. But...once you start getting to reasonable processor speeds you have to be really careful about rack layouts - data line lengths need to be the same, you have to plan for and eliminate crosstalk, etc., etc.. 700Mhz processors talk to their RAM damn fast! 
If you can drop in a known working module then the rest of the board is cheaper to design, and cheaper to manufacture - and still the the high speed processor we all want (and sometimes even need). I've done it before with a StrongArm / RAM / FPGA combo the size of a credit card.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Quote: really careful about rack layouts
If you mean track layouts I can say "Brother you are preaching to the choir!" at the moment I have a load of high speed digital boards to test & debug and the person that did the design & layout was one those "well it worked for me before types" causing some really interesting issues... 
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I forgot the T (probably because I don't drink the stuff!)
glennPattonWork wrote: "well it worked for me before types"
:brrrrrr:
And this time, one track is slightly shorter and the signal arrives - and worse disappears - a fraction earlier than the other 7.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Oooh you know my pain! 
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Fun to find, aren't they?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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