<story><title>You just went to the Google homepage. What actually happened?</title><url>https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joezydeco</author><text>Embedded systems engineers work on all these levels, simultaneously, day in and day out.  But apparently our craft is kind of a dying one.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve seen discussions on LinkedIn about how one gets into embedded systems engineering.  Nobody seems to have a clear answer.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve seen people get all hyped up on using small eval/dev boards like Raspberry Pi, but don&apos;t get much farther than loading a desktop or XBMC on it.  There&apos;s hope in the Arduino crowd, but blinking LEDs isn&apos;t even putting the training wheels on the bike.</text></item><item><author>xradionut</author><text>&quot;Wow, it&apos;s easy to forget how much complexity there is, even for a technologist.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Complexity is there every day, we just abstract it away in order to focus on the task at hand.&lt;p&gt;If you are widely read or have worked in multiple fields, and/or multiple levels of the &quot;stack&quot;, both hardware and software, then it&apos;s a bit more apparent.</text></item><item><author>guptaneil</author><text>Wow, it&apos;s easy to forget how much complexity there is, even for a technologist. This post reminds me to step back and appreciate everything that&apos;s going on under the hood. For a similar effect on non-technologists, see Louis C.K&apos;s bit about how even the shittiest technologies are a miracle[1].&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the conclusion though. I think the reason Steve Jobs&apos; death impacted people more than Dennis Ritchie&apos;s is that Jobs was taken in his prime. Who knows what the world lost by his premature death.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dugmartin</author><text>The sad thing is I was talking last week to a former coworker with 20 years of hardcore embedded programming experience and he is thinking of going into web programming because of better opportunities there.&lt;p&gt;I spent the first few years of my career doing hard (as in deadlines not effort) real time embedded software and I think it made me a better programmer.  However being able to work from a laptop anywhere I want instead of being stuck in a test lab with bus analyzers, scopes, data analyzers and bond out emulators booping all around me is a nicer lifestyle I&apos;ll have to admit.</text></comment>
<story><title>You just went to the Google homepage. What actually happened?</title><url>https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joezydeco</author><text>Embedded systems engineers work on all these levels, simultaneously, day in and day out.  But apparently our craft is kind of a dying one.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve seen discussions on LinkedIn about how one gets into embedded systems engineering.  Nobody seems to have a clear answer.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve seen people get all hyped up on using small eval/dev boards like Raspberry Pi, but don&apos;t get much farther than loading a desktop or XBMC on it.  There&apos;s hope in the Arduino crowd, but blinking LEDs isn&apos;t even putting the training wheels on the bike.</text></item><item><author>xradionut</author><text>&quot;Wow, it&apos;s easy to forget how much complexity there is, even for a technologist.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Complexity is there every day, we just abstract it away in order to focus on the task at hand.&lt;p&gt;If you are widely read or have worked in multiple fields, and/or multiple levels of the &quot;stack&quot;, both hardware and software, then it&apos;s a bit more apparent.</text></item><item><author>guptaneil</author><text>Wow, it&apos;s easy to forget how much complexity there is, even for a technologist. This post reminds me to step back and appreciate everything that&apos;s going on under the hood. For a similar effect on non-technologists, see Louis C.K&apos;s bit about how even the shittiest technologies are a miracle[1].&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the conclusion though. I think the reason Steve Jobs&apos; death impacted people more than Dennis Ritchie&apos;s is that Jobs was taken in his prime. Who knows what the world lost by his premature death.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaius</author><text>Agreed. If you&apos;re building something like an embedded nas server, you have to have a deep understanding of literally every piece of technology he talked about.&lt;p&gt;I think arduino has done wonders for getting people started, but it would be great if there was a similar ecosystem for people who are further along than blinking LEDs and building something of significance.</text></comment>