Anyone know what the market's like for embedded s/w development these days? ~ 15 years ago (ouch) recall we were using a lot of contractors for protracted periods & had to keep them sweet for fear they might just skip off to another job.
Didn't make the transition then. Always wondered ..
Embedded contracting in the UK is dead atm.
I found that in the field, most contract vacancies from agents are fake. As for the few hw startups, they're mostly unfunded.
The first Java program I remember writing was something that generated the "Robert Morris Sequence" -- the number sequence that Robert Morris Sr. gave to Cliff Stoll, which Stoll referenced in chapter 48 of the Cuckoo's Egg:
Thanks for posting that, this was the passage I thought of immediately upon seeing the announcement, and my introduction to who Morris was and why he was so important.
Wanted to say the same thing, I just finished the book a week ago, never heard of him before and still I feel strangely affected by his death. Condolences to his family and firends.
My favorite part is how he starts off by critiquing Stoll's dissertation. "...although I thought that all atmostpheres were adiabatic so long as they convected."
It seems like the pioneers in new fields (computer security in this case) tend to know a lot about other ones, also.
As a veteran of several industry-winters, I have to expect some down-voters are in for a rude awakening over the next few years.