...[T]here are persistent complaints that never seem to go away. The first of these is overtime; the 40-hour work week is but a dream to many, and panicked overtime is de rigueur at many outfits in the last few months of a project. Absenteeism is twice the national average at companies that routinely resort to long weeks. Stress leads to sickness, and even people shackled to the desk need free time to get all of the routine activities of life done.There is an even more disturbing article on the health consequences of being a programmer: Health Hazards for IT Workers: How Your Desk Wears You Down: Too much junk food, too little exercise and a 24/7 tether to technology? Your body ain't happy, friend. Let us count the pains.
..long days, heavy workload, poor eating, lack of exercise and cruddy posture add up to a pretty stressful work environment. ... Keep it up another ten years, and you could be looking at a host of ailments, from nagging aches and pains on up through serious, life-threatening conditions, according to a host of medical experts we spoke with. ... The combination of a sedentary workday and poor eating habits can lead first and foremost to obesity, which can put your heart at risk and lead to a litany of other diseases.Why are you still reading this blog after reading that? Get up and go exercise!
"The UCLA Mersenne Prime number is 243112609 - 1. The actual number has 12,978,189 digits. If you're so inclined, long-time Mersenne Prime researcher Landon Curt Noll has made the number itself available here. If you're really, really inclined, he also provides the entire number in English (all 328 megabytes of it) here."
Gimpel Software has released, Version 9.0 of their Lint program. Lint is the nitpickiest of all programs when it comes to finding errors in C and C++ code.
Most relevant to us at Software Safety .Net is the enhanced Motor Industry Software Reliability Association checking which includes the detection of recursion, support for the MISRA 2 'underlying type' concept, determination of side effects for functions and MISRA C++ support and more. If your budget is limited this is the one program that you must have.Alas I had to decline both due to my father being in poor health right now.
Have your ever felt like opportunity was knocking on the door, but all you were doing was complaining about the noise?
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The prevailing attitude that "Memory is Cheap" doesn't cut it in the world of Embedded Systems. I get code to fit into parts (others have picked), that are too small. I translate code between different micros and compilers. Besides the software aspects of things I also do micro design, analog design, power supply design, and board layout.
During the heyday of the Dot Com boom I was the lead author of Circuit
Cellar Online's Resource Links. Steve Ciarcia said I set the standard by which
other link sites were judged, at that time.
I was also a paid member of the Circuit Cellar AskUs staff.
From the final "Connect Time" in Circuit Cellar Issue #80, March 1997:
"I do want to thank a few individuals who have contributed above and
beyond the call over the last 10 years (and, I'm hopeful, for years to
come). Specifically, **Bob Paddock**, Pellervo Kaskinen, George Novacek,
Jim Meyer, and Ed Nisley. I could always count on one of these sharp
guys to have an intelligent, well-thought-out answer to some of the most
off-the-wall questions I've ever seen." - Ken Davidson former SYSOP/Editor-In-Chief Circuit Cellar
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