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--- Quote from: EEVblog on October 04, 2017, 01:30:58 pm ---What will you be doing? --- End quote --- I'm a firmware guy. Company's great, enjoying it a lot :-+ Can't say more :) BTW some agencies called after 3 weeks of silence LOL. And some didn't respond at all. I'm also really surprised, that there's such a big "focus" on C++ and Linux in embedded. Even if they want bare-metal C guy. My little theory is agencies want to get best generic candidates and it might not be what company really needs. It seems to me one needs to learn "how to BS" and kind of self-marketing when going through them. |
| IDEngineer:
Saw this thread bubble to the surface again and had to comment.... We visited Sydney about ten years ago in the midst of a longer trip. Figured "Eh, just another big city" so we were only there for a couple of days. DANG... we could have stayed two weeks! We quickly fell in love with it and would love to return someday. We had no schedule at all, yet every waking moment was packed and we didn't touch 1% of what we learned was happening. My personal favorite was Luna Park. I'm a sucker for amusement parks anyway and my (then) 5YO son and I had an absolute blast. There's this one indoor space that has "alpine slides" (think wooden whoop-de-doos) and a huge rotating wooden disk in the floor where the goal is to be the last one flung off by centripetal force (I won!). Meanwhile my wife and in-laws went to some kind of street market and said they didn't touch a quarter of it in half a day. We went to Sydney with low expectations and were totally blown away by how diverse and beautiful and fun it is. You'll love living there. I'm kinda jealous, actually. |
| Brumby:
--- Quote from: IDEngineer on April 10, 2020, 05:56:51 pm ---My personal favorite was Luna Park. I'm a sucker for amusement parks anyway and my (then) 5YO son and I had an absolute blast. There's this one indoor space that has "alpine slides" (think wooden whoop-de-doos) --- End quote --- Been a while since I've been there. Did you go on the regular ones - or the kamikaze ones (where the first 10 feet or so are vertical >:D ) --- Quote --- and a huge rotating wooden disk in the floor where the goal is to be the last one flung off by centripetal force (I won!). --- End quote --- I never won on that - mainly because I wasn't fast enough to get to the centre. You would have liked it better when the original Big Dipper was running. |
| IDEngineer:
--- Quote from: Brumby on April 11, 2020, 06:21:46 am ---Been a while since I've been there. Did you go on the regular ones - or the kamikaze ones (where the first 10 feet or so are vertical >:D ) --- End quote --- We went on everything. As I recall, the big ones were against the wall with a sort of diorama of snowy scenes on the wall behind them. You climbed pretty much to the ceiling to start on them. --- Quote ---I never won on that - mainly because I wasn't fast enough to get to the centre. --- End quote --- Neither was I, and I would have felt bad shoving little kids out of position. But they didn't know how to maximize friction, and as they'd skitter away I'd reposition toward the center. Basically a war of attrition. And darned good fun too! |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: IDEngineer on April 12, 2020, 02:29:18 am --- --- Quote from: Brumby on April 11, 2020, 06:21:46 am ---Been a while since I've been there. Did you go on the regular ones - or the kamikaze ones (where the first 10 feet or so are vertical >:D ) --- End quote --- We went on everything. As I recall, the big ones were against the wall with a sort of diorama of snowy scenes on the wall behind them. You climbed pretty much to the ceiling to start on them. --- End quote --- Unfortunately they built big apartment blocks literally meters away from the big dipper, and surprise surprise, the new residents complained about the noise. And surprise surprise, they won, and they had to remove the big dipper. It's a real sore point in Sydney culture, a few moron developers and residents ruined the original Luna park. |
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