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Changing MakeRoom to be inline (gcc 4.6.3) turns out to be a significant speedup. Also appears to be a small benefit from modifying the Lev struct to have Room first.

Related to "Hire open source hackers", I'd like to work for a company that respects, and dare I say encourages, open source contributions. I recently went through the approval proc…

Land owners do care, however. There was talk of a new rail line to the south of Rochester, MN a number of years ago and some landowners were unhappy because the proposed line would…

For me, 'restart' is generally the most used operation during debug. The vast majority of the time I want to rerun through the init code to clear out the registers and any previous…

From what I've seen at IBM/HP, interns/coops usually get paid somewhere around $20 to $25. A bit lower if a freshman, higher if grad student. And last I heard, the MECOP program at…

"If you have extensive and current open source contributions, for most people it means ... you're violating your employer's contract terms." Bingo (at least for me). Both companies…

I'd agree. Those ratios sound pretty reasonable for firmware. Actually, 60% was probably a good year. I worked on i&p series servers at IBM and a vast majority of what we did wasn'…

I believe the MECOP program at Oregon State sets a floor of $16. 40 hours a week * 4 weeks gives you $2560. I've been told almost all get more which is good because that seems quit…

Less tax impact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary

If you mean the idealistic notion that an engineer can come in and eventually run the company, sure, if they get on the management path quickly. Spent just under a decade with IBM …

Not a lawyer, but I didn't think non-competes were valid in California http://law.onecle.com/california/business/16600.html There do appear to be exceptions though. Can't speak to …

Close garage door or verification it is closed. Turn off outlets (parasitic devices or just something I forgot). Drop water heater temperature when away assuming not tankless. Pet …

Code, code, and then code some more. I've read quite a few similar posts over the last few months and that has been the answer almost every time. Can't say I disagree. Going back t…