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A particularly miserly subset of C++11. (Or does "MISRA" stand for something else?)
Lol. Yeah, misra is what it is.
Is misra as safe as ada? C++ for safety critical systems sounds vaguely concerning
Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
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Lol. Yeah, misra is what it is.
Is misra as safe as ada? C++ for safety critical systems sounds vaguely concerning
MISRA is just a set of regulations. C++ can be fine for safety critical systems, if it's done correctly. You just have to do it right and enforce the standards.
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There’s a huge difference between having your primary business being services projects basically as an extension of the government and your revenue center being unrelated private sector funding. Your corporate structure and business incentives are completely different as a result. I know Lockheed spend many millions of dollars trying to build a DoD-centric IaaS as AWS was being built and it didn’t really matter in th…
Not when talking about payscales. To say defense contractors don't pay FAANG salaries when FAANG companies are in the defense business is a failure of awareness. I was simply pointing this out.
None of the FAANG companies derive any significant percentage of their revenue from defense. None of them are defense contractors in the real sense of the concept. They're corporations who have a defense business on the side.
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Bless Your Heart. BTW, this will give you the warm fuzzies: https://www.vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html
Wow, that's recent! I hope they are optimizing the design to run in a VM, with drivers only for fake VM devices, one of each kind.
Err...why? VMS has dealt with real hw for years.....
Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
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How many of them had the manuals? Very few. The famous "Orange Wall of Manuals" was often secreted away, for the wizards to consult, but not for the masses to enlighten themselves with.
One guy, at least, had manuals. VMS also had an excellent help facility.
Oh, sure. What was the format of an executable file?
Nostalgia is a trap. Wallowing in the idealized "good old days" blinds you to the true scope of history and cuts you off from progress.
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One guy, at least, had manuals. VMS also had an excellent help facility.
Oh, sure. What was the format of an executable file? Nostalgia is a trap. Wallowing in the idealized "good old days" blinds you to the true scope of history and cuts you off from progress.
Hah. I've forgotten.
Retrocomputing is just a hobby of mind. It's fun to play around with those old systems.
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Right, we should all work for FAANG companies. Likewise, why wouldn't any person who loves sports work for the NBA instead of as a gym teacher? You'll make more money working as an NBA player, and you don't have to wait years for a teaching certificate to be approved. Jobs in schools, in particular, are pretty lousy paying compared to what sports lovers are getting elsewhere. The fact that FAANG companies employ abou…
>For example, Tesla pays software developers just $78k to $147k. Citation needed. That seems suspiciously low for silicon valley. >Likewise, why wouldn't any person who loves sports work for the NBA instead of as a gym teacher? Your argument doesn't make much sense here. You trot out this line, but then you try to make the case that defense contractors pay well (which isn't really my experience; they pay OK (except f…
It's not suspiciously low for silicon valley. It's just normal. Your perception is miscalibrated due to FAANG people bragging.
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Tesla_Motors/S...
It is improper to declare that any company outside the highest paying 0.1% is somehow not up to standard.
It is also improper to ignore working conditions. If you end up working 60-hour weeks for $180,000 the pay is no better than working 40-hour weeks for $120,000.
It is also improper to ignore cost of living. House prices can differ by a factor of 20, not even counting the collapsing locations. Just the difference between San Francisco and a medium-small non-coastal southern city is that much.
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Not when talking about payscales. To say defense contractors don't pay FAANG salaries when FAANG companies are in the defense business is a failure of awareness. I was simply pointing this out.
None of the FAANG companies derive any significant percentage of their revenue from defense. None of them are defense contractors in the real sense of the concept. They're corporations who have a defense business on the side.
You either are or you aren't a defense contractor. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have been competing for a $10 billion dollar defense contract. Google just dropped out. Aside, Boeing is considered a defense contractor by many, but only 25% of its revenue is from defense. Where do you draw the line?
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Oh, sure. What was the format of an executable file? Nostalgia is a trap. Wallowing in the idealized "good old days" blinds you to the true scope of history and cuts you off from progress.
Hah. I've forgotten. Retrocomputing is just a hobby of mind. It's fun to play around with those old systems.
As near as I could ever find, the format of a VMS executable file did not appear in the DEC manuals. I meant that as a commentary on the "VMS had great docs" sentiment.
At one point, I was convinced that understanding the format of an executable file (a.out, COFF, XCOFF, Mach-O, ELF, .com, .exe, PE, etc) was important to understanding the operating system itself. I spent a fair amount of effort and some money buying books trying to find the VMS executable file format. Couldn't find a hint.
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Yes it does. If there actually was a bigger demand than there is supply, the salary would raise. The main reason why it doesn't is because a programming language or frameworks are not a barrier for any top developer. Skills usually transfer very well. The real crux of the matter is that these companies don't want to pay top salaries and thus don't get top developers. As long as there are people who navigate themselve…
I really don't want to judge your ability, I agree with your comment about C#, Java, JS, C ,... but COBOL is a completely different animal to reason with. Been there and ran as fast as I could.
I don't know. I actually personally know someone that jumped from PHP to COBOL with no significant problem. They had some gripes, of course, but it wasn't a show stopper and they were able to get to work and be productive right away.