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Google is offering to produce free chips for you. They have to be open source, they are using 20 year old technology and you'll get 100 of them. Could someone reverse engineer a SID-chip and have Goggle start to crank those suckers out?
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/03/open_chip_hardware/
https://fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk
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"My life is a soap opera, but who gets the movie rights?"
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:51AM (1 child)
I think they want to know who is self motivated to actually DO stuff. Lotsa people have the "leadership" skill to tell someone else to do stuff. Very few people are personally driven by passion to actually do it.
Google wants to know who they are.
I have already seen the disaster of placing passionate designers subordinate to PHB types. Both sides fight, and the one who controls the employment status of the other always wins, while the other is dismissed, often because of a "bad attitude".
Google has seen what happened at some former top notch MIC corporations as they bled off their passionate engineers and retained their handshakers.
It was passionate engineers at JPL, NASA, Autonetics, and many other companies that got men to the moon. But that seems to have died out as those in search of ever higher profit and cost cutting took over control, and now we get planes that have serious errors in design, stuff that has minimal acceptable utility, planned obsolence, landfills full of junk, and copyright patent messes where farmers can't maintain their machines.
I think Google has a lot to gain by finding who comes wired, right out of the womb, with a passion for creating new stuff.
While other corporations hire the "leadership" skills to evaluate employees on ass kissing finesse.
It happened to me. Nicolai Tesla had the same problem. Galileo. Socrates.
Think Steve Wozniak could have held onto a job under a modern management style type PHB?
If you are a creative type, you either have to work for yourself or directly with the owner of the company.
If even ONE suit-and-tie handshaker gets between you and the company owner, it's game over. Any contribution you make puts the more highly paid handshaker in competition with you and will use his privilege of rank to place obstacles in your path, withold information, to justify your dismissal before the top guy finds out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:35PM
Don’t be so down on the PHB they figured out how the system works and are working it, successfully, to their advantage