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He works at Netgem a french start-up. It's not really a big corporate.
I know (well at least internet sources told me) he worked for a government agency in France similar to NSA in USA. Probably still is, and netgem is his cover.
Considering that you apparently aren't fooled by that cover up, it can't be that much worth anyway.
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> Contributing to GNU projects as an outsider is a PITA. Finally someone who has the guts to write this!!! So true, so true ...
Why would a semi-anonymous comment require guts?
Not that criticizing GNU is at all verboten at HN, though, so your point still stands.
Does he need money? One would think he probably has a pretty good day job already. But if he really needed it in order to continue writing software, I would bet many people would be willing to contribute to a "Bellard Writing Fund". His contributions to open source are really in a class by themselves.
As cool as this is, the title is a bit misleading. This setup requires a "low cost software radio frontend" costing about $2000 and the author is using a high end i7 processor. Still a very cool use of SDR and probably considerably cheaper than the alternatives.
$2k is exceedingly cheap in the cellular space I would guess. So, the title would only be misleading out of context, in which Fabrice assumes you will find your own context, because he is to busy saving the world with code. Also agree this is very cool use of SoftRadio.
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The reason the average HN-goer never does anything of note is precisely because of being driven by this "how can I monetize this" mentality alone.
Getting paid is a proxy for doing something society actually wants (rather than paying lip service to) and brings the resources to make it self-sustaining. I'm torn because I find society's wants (at least around my calling) to be largely fickle and shallow, but if I disregard them it's mere self-gratification.
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Productivity and sheer balls. My on-the-side projects are pathetic compared to what this guy does. Even a quick glance at one of those LTE specs is enough to scare me a million miles away from a project like this.
Knowing how many people it takes to develop a eNodeB is even more impressive. Normally it would be n * 100 engineers (or even n * 1000) working on these projects.
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The reason the average HN-goer never does anything of note is precisely because of being driven by this "how can I monetize this" mentality alone.
Getting paid is a proxy for doing something society actually wants (rather than paying lip service to) and brings the resources to make it self-sustaining. I'm torn because I find society's wants (at least around my calling) to be largely fickle and shallow, but if I disregard them it's mere self-gratification.
*I am extremely loathe to use no payment as a direct indicator of want or value.