The swinging axe

[nostradamus]

Haha I see SDR has some connections…

I’m learning a lot here. I didn’t know about Sun’s layoffs and I didn’t know LG was here in SD.

FLU, “can’t find talent here” sounds like fancy talk for “can’t afford to pay more than peanuts”. What kind of talent is she looking for?

[Coronita]

Haha I see SDR has some connections…

I'm learning a lot here. I didn't know about Sun's layoffs and I didn't know LG was here in SD.

My second guess would be L3, which I think is also having problems. You'd be surprised who is here in SD if you really look. Google is in Irvine. Yahoo is in Carlesbad and Rancho Bernardo (well at least for now 🙂 ) Microsoft has a presence, IBM has a presence, so does NetApp and I believe EMC. Huawei has a presence, and my neighbor who is CEO of a large chinese telco is probably going to open an office here or irvine soon. San Diego has decent diverse tech, just not a lot of the same thing. Sun's presence here has been small relative to sun, mainly hardware support. They've been cutting back every year. The site here is virtually no-existence. The main reason why the office is probably still here is because several companies out here still uses a lot of equipment from them.

 

FLU, "can't find talent here" sounds like fancy talk for "can't afford to pay more than peanuts". What kind of talent is she looking for?

I think it's just general embedded software development. VwWorks/Linux embedded for wireless telco systems. I'll find out more details. I was surprised they are going overseas to recruit. I don't buy the "no talent" here argument myself. It sucks to be good but unemployed, meanwhile while companies are recruiting overseas.

If you know people that's interested in QC, I'll forward some resumes to her and her group. Just have your colleague's send email to my yahoo account: [email protected]… Sorry about the email handle though. One of these days, I'll grow up and change it when I reach puberty.

I would have thought the sinking dollar would have made it more cost-effective to keep employment here. Oh well. I guess we work in the only industry that doesn't keep pace with inflation. Have you folks thought about that? Take a P.C. for example. You work in a tech field which a PC costs less than 10 years ago, despite how much the dollar has devalued…Hmmmmmmm.

 

 

 

 

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[Coronita]

Haha I see SDR has some connections…

I'm learning a lot here. I didn't know about Sun's layoffs and I didn't know LG was here in SD.

My second guess would be L3, which I think is also having problems. You'd be surprised who is here in SD if you really look. Google is in Irvine. Yahoo is in Carlesbad and Rancho Bernardo (well at least for now 🙂 ) Microsoft has a presence, IBM has a presence, so does NetApp and I believe EMC. Huawei has a presence, and my neighbor who is CEO of a large chinese telco is probably going to open an office here or irvine soon. San Diego has decent diverse tech, just not a lot of the same thing. Sun's presence here has been small relative to sun, mainly hardware support. They've been cutting back every year. The site here is virtually no-existence. The main reason why the office is probably still here is because several companies out here still uses a lot of equipment from them.

 

FLU, "can't find talent here" sounds like fancy talk for "can't afford to pay more than peanuts". What kind of talent is she looking for?

I think it's just general embedded software development. VwWorks/Linux embedded for wireless telco systems. I'll find out more details. I was surprised they are going overseas to recruit. I don't buy the "no talent" here argument myself. It sucks to be good but unemployed, meanwhile while companies are recruiting overseas.

If you know people that's interested in QC, I'll forward some resumes to her and her group. Just have your colleague's send email to my yahoo account: [email protected]… Sorry about the email handle though. One of these days, I'll grow up and change it when I reach puberty.

I would have thought the sinking dollar would have made it more cost-effective to keep employment here. Oh well. I guess we work in the only industry that doesn't keep pace with inflation. Have you folks thought about that? Take a P.C. for example. You work in a tech field which a PC costs less than 10 years ago, despite how much the dollar has devalued…Hmmmmmmm.

 

 

 

 

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—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Haha I see SDR has some connections…

I'm learning a lot here. I didn't know about Sun's layoffs and I didn't know LG was here in SD.

My second guess would be L3, which I think is also having problems. You'd be surprised who is here in SD if you really look. Google is in Irvine. Yahoo is in Carlesbad and Rancho Bernardo (well at least for now 🙂 ) Microsoft has a presence, IBM has a presence, so does NetApp and I believe EMC. Huawei has a presence, and my neighbor who is CEO of a large chinese telco is probably going to open an office here or irvine soon. San Diego has decent diverse tech, just not a lot of the same thing. Sun's presence here has been small relative to sun, mainly hardware support. They've been cutting back every year. The site here is virtually no-existence. The main reason why the office is probably still here is because several companies out here still uses a lot of equipment from them.

 

FLU, "can't find talent here" sounds like fancy talk for "can't afford to pay more than peanuts". What kind of talent is she looking for?

I think it's just general embedded software development. VwWorks/Linux embedded for wireless telco systems. I'll find out more details. I was surprised they are going overseas to recruit. I don't buy the "no talent" here argument myself. It sucks to be good but unemployed, meanwhile while companies are recruiting overseas.

If you know people that's interested in QC, I'll forward some resumes to her and her group. Just have your colleague's send email to my yahoo account: [email protected]… Sorry about the email handle though. One of these days, I'll grow up and change it when I reach puberty.

I would have thought the sinking dollar would have made it more cost-effective to keep employment here. Oh well. I guess we work in the only industry that doesn't keep pace with inflation. Have you folks thought about that? Take a P.C. for example. You work in a tech field which a PC costs less than 10 years ago, despite how much the dollar has devalued…Hmmmmmmm.

 

 

 

 

[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]

—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Haha I see SDR has some connections…

I'm learning a lot here. I didn't know about Sun's layoffs and I didn't know LG was here in SD.

My second guess would be L3, which I think is also having problems. You'd be surprised who is here in SD if you really look. Google is in Irvine. Yahoo is in Carlesbad and Rancho Bernardo (well at least for now 🙂 ) Microsoft has a presence, IBM has a presence, so does NetApp and I believe EMC. Huawei has a presence, and my neighbor who is CEO of a large chinese telco is probably going to open an office here or irvine soon. San Diego has decent diverse tech, just not a lot of the same thing. Sun's presence here has been small relative to sun, mainly hardware support. They've been cutting back every year. The site here is virtually no-existence. The main reason why the office is probably still here is because several companies out here still uses a lot of equipment from them.

 

FLU, "can't find talent here" sounds like fancy talk for "can't afford to pay more than peanuts". What kind of talent is she looking for?

I think it's just general embedded software development. VwWorks/Linux embedded for wireless telco systems. I'll find out more details. I was surprised they are going overseas to recruit. I don't buy the "no talent" here argument myself. It sucks to be good but unemployed, meanwhile while companies are recruiting overseas.

If you know people that's interested in QC, I'll forward some resumes to her and her group. Just have your colleague's send email to my yahoo account: [email protected]… Sorry about the email handle though. One of these days, I'll grow up and change it when I reach puberty.

I would have thought the sinking dollar would have made it more cost-effective to keep employment here. Oh well. I guess we work in the only industry that doesn't keep pace with inflation. Have you folks thought about that? Take a P.C. for example. You work in a tech field which a PC costs less than 10 years ago, despite how much the dollar has devalued…Hmmmmmmm.

 

 

 

 

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—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Haha I see SDR has some connections…

I'm learning a lot here. I didn't know about Sun's layoffs and I didn't know LG was here in SD.

My second guess would be L3, which I think is also having problems. You'd be surprised who is here in SD if you really look. Google is in Irvine. Yahoo is in Carlesbad and Rancho Bernardo (well at least for now 🙂 ) Microsoft has a presence, IBM has a presence, so does NetApp and I believe EMC. Huawei has a presence, and my neighbor who is CEO of a large chinese telco is probably going to open an office here or irvine soon. San Diego has decent diverse tech, just not a lot of the same thing. Sun's presence here has been small relative to sun, mainly hardware support. They've been cutting back every year. The site here is virtually no-existence. The main reason why the office is probably still here is because several companies out here still uses a lot of equipment from them.

 

FLU, "can't find talent here" sounds like fancy talk for "can't afford to pay more than peanuts". What kind of talent is she looking for?

I think it's just general embedded software development. VwWorks/Linux embedded for wireless telco systems. I'll find out more details. I was surprised they are going overseas to recruit. I don't buy the "no talent" here argument myself. It sucks to be good but unemployed, meanwhile while companies are recruiting overseas.

If you know people that's interested in QC, I'll forward some resumes to her and her group. Just have your colleague's send email to my yahoo account: [email protected]… Sorry about the email handle though. One of these days, I'll grow up and change it when I reach puberty.

I would have thought the sinking dollar would have made it more cost-effective to keep employment here. Oh well. I guess we work in the only industry that doesn't keep pace with inflation. Have you folks thought about that? Take a P.C. for example. You work in a tech field which a PC costs less than 10 years ago, despite how much the dollar has devalued…Hmmmmmmm.

 

 

 

 

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—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[SD Realtor]

Nostra remember I am a 20 year engineer here!

Actually I may have been wrong about telecom… it is part telecom and part semiconductor. The company is TI. I heard about it last night. Seems to me it kind of came out of the blue but I am on the outside looking in there. I have heard varying degrees as to the size of the layoff but I “think” it is non trivial.

Anyways yeah FLU lots of diversity… as most of us old codgers know a heavy amount of our ancestry can find roots back to Link A Bit… Of course the old GD had quite a work force back in the 80’s… Also though yeah lots and lots of small/medium size companies here… Comcast has a digital design team with embedded firmware development… Moto has alot here (my old stomping grounds for many years)… all kinds of support companies for EDA tools and services… I could go on and on…

Nostra I am not sure if TI is the one you heard about but it is the one I heard about.

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

Nostra remember I am a 20 year engineer here!

Actually I may have been wrong about telecom… it is part telecom and part semiconductor. The company is TI. I heard about it last night. Seems to me it kind of came out of the blue but I am on the outside looking in there. I have heard varying degrees as to the size of the layoff but I “think” it is non trivial.

Anyways yeah FLU lots of diversity… as most of us old codgers know a heavy amount of our ancestry can find roots back to Link A Bit… Of course the old GD had quite a work force back in the 80’s… Also though yeah lots and lots of small/medium size companies here… Comcast has a digital design team with embedded firmware development… Moto has alot here (my old stomping grounds for many years)… all kinds of support companies for EDA tools and services… I could go on and on…

Nostra I am not sure if TI is the one you heard about but it is the one I heard about.

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

Nostra remember I am a 20 year engineer here!

Actually I may have been wrong about telecom… it is part telecom and part semiconductor. The company is TI. I heard about it last night. Seems to me it kind of came out of the blue but I am on the outside looking in there. I have heard varying degrees as to the size of the layoff but I “think” it is non trivial.

Anyways yeah FLU lots of diversity… as most of us old codgers know a heavy amount of our ancestry can find roots back to Link A Bit… Of course the old GD had quite a work force back in the 80’s… Also though yeah lots and lots of small/medium size companies here… Comcast has a digital design team with embedded firmware development… Moto has alot here (my old stomping grounds for many years)… all kinds of support companies for EDA tools and services… I could go on and on…

Nostra I am not sure if TI is the one you heard about but it is the one I heard about.

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

Nostra remember I am a 20 year engineer here!

Actually I may have been wrong about telecom… it is part telecom and part semiconductor. The company is TI. I heard about it last night. Seems to me it kind of came out of the blue but I am on the outside looking in there. I have heard varying degrees as to the size of the layoff but I “think” it is non trivial.

Anyways yeah FLU lots of diversity… as most of us old codgers know a heavy amount of our ancestry can find roots back to Link A Bit… Of course the old GD had quite a work force back in the 80’s… Also though yeah lots and lots of small/medium size companies here… Comcast has a digital design team with embedded firmware development… Moto has alot here (my old stomping grounds for many years)… all kinds of support companies for EDA tools and services… I could go on and on…

Nostra I am not sure if TI is the one you heard about but it is the one I heard about.

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

Nostra remember I am a 20 year engineer here!

Actually I may have been wrong about telecom… it is part telecom and part semiconductor. The company is TI. I heard about it last night. Seems to me it kind of came out of the blue but I am on the outside looking in there. I have heard varying degrees as to the size of the layoff but I “think” it is non trivial.

Anyways yeah FLU lots of diversity… as most of us old codgers know a heavy amount of our ancestry can find roots back to Link A Bit… Of course the old GD had quite a work force back in the 80’s… Also though yeah lots and lots of small/medium size companies here… Comcast has a digital design team with embedded firmware development… Moto has alot here (my old stomping grounds for many years)… all kinds of support companies for EDA tools and services… I could go on and on…

Nostra I am not sure if TI is the one you heard about but it is the one I heard about.

SD Realtor

[Coronita]

Nostra remember I am a 20 year engineer here!

Actually I may have been wrong about telecom… it is part telecom and part semiconductor. The company is TI. I heard about it last night. Seems to me it kind of came out of the blue but I am on the outside looking in there. I have heard varying degrees as to the size of the layoff but I "think" it is non trivial.

Anyways yeah FLU lots of diversity… as most of us old codgers know a heavy amount of our ancestry can find roots back to Link A Bit… Of course the old GD had quite a work force back in the 80's… Also though yeah lots and lots of small/medium size companies here… Comcast has a digital design team with embedded firmware development… Moto has alot here (my old stomping grounds for many years)… all kinds of support companies for EDA tools and services… I could go on and on…

Nostra I am not sure if TI is the one you heard about but it is the one I heard about.

SD Realtor

Oh crap. We know a lot of people from there. Or I should say, we knew a lot of people that's beem steadily quiting over the years. I think the ultimate downturn was when Nokia pulled out of the CDMA market, which TI had been a supplier to. That's too bad, because when I was at the Barcelona mobile conference, they actually had a pretty impressive demo of a phone running Google's android platform. More so than the breadboard version that QC was running. TI's wireless program has been in the toilet for the past couple of years, so unfortunately it's not really a surprise. I just thought that enough people had already left that there wasn't that much more attrition. Well, anyway, if you know anyone that is interested in the QC, let me know.

Anyone know about what's going on with NextWave (II)? My guess isn't not in that great of a shape either. I was around to see Nextwave (I) unravel. When I saw this company reborn, specializing in WiMax, I thought oh my. WiMax is going nowhere.

 

I guess seeing all this turmoil, with all due respect to you embedded folks, I'm sort of glad my wife and I don't do the same thing, let alone work at the same company. Though it's probably not as much as a big deal to find embedded positions out here than web 2.0+ enterprise crap that I do (no really, I really enjoy doing what I do, except the days things break 🙂 )

 

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—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Nostra remember I am a 20 year engineer here!

Actually I may have been wrong about telecom… it is part telecom and part semiconductor. The company is TI. I heard about it last night. Seems to me it kind of came out of the blue but I am on the outside looking in there. I have heard varying degrees as to the size of the layoff but I "think" it is non trivial.

Anyways yeah FLU lots of diversity… as most of us old codgers know a heavy amount of our ancestry can find roots back to Link A Bit… Of course the old GD had quite a work force back in the 80's… Also though yeah lots and lots of small/medium size companies here… Comcast has a digital design team with embedded firmware development… Moto has alot here (my old stomping grounds for many years)… all kinds of support companies for EDA tools and services… I could go on and on…

Nostra I am not sure if TI is the one you heard about but it is the one I heard about.

SD Realtor

Oh crap. We know a lot of people from there. Or I should say, we knew a lot of people that's beem steadily quiting over the years. I think the ultimate downturn was when Nokia pulled out of the CDMA market, which TI had been a supplier to. That's too bad, because when I was at the Barcelona mobile conference, they actually had a pretty impressive demo of a phone running Google's android platform. More so than the breadboard version that QC was running. TI's wireless program has been in the toilet for the past couple of years, so unfortunately it's not really a surprise. I just thought that enough people had already left that there wasn't that much more attrition. Well, anyway, if you know anyone that is interested in the QC, let me know.

Anyone know about what's going on with NextWave (II)? My guess isn't not in that great of a shape either. I was around to see Nextwave (I) unravel. When I saw this company reborn, specializing in WiMax, I thought oh my. WiMax is going nowhere.

 

I guess seeing all this turmoil, with all due respect to you embedded folks, I'm sort of glad my wife and I don't do the same thing, let alone work at the same company. Though it's probably not as much as a big deal to find embedded positions out here than web 2.0+ enterprise crap that I do (no really, I really enjoy doing what I do, except the days things break 🙂 )

 

[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]

—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Nostra remember I am a 20 year engineer here!

Actually I may have been wrong about telecom… it is part telecom and part semiconductor. The company is TI. I heard about it last night. Seems to me it kind of came out of the blue but I am on the outside looking in there. I have heard varying degrees as to the size of the layoff but I "think" it is non trivial.

Anyways yeah FLU lots of diversity… as most of us old codgers know a heavy amount of our ancestry can find roots back to Link A Bit… Of course the old GD had quite a work force back in the 80's… Also though yeah lots and lots of small/medium size companies here… Comcast has a digital design team with embedded firmware development… Moto has alot here (my old stomping grounds for many years)… all kinds of support companies for EDA tools and services… I could go on and on…

Nostra I am not sure if TI is the one you heard about but it is the one I heard about.

SD Realtor

Oh crap. We know a lot of people from there. Or I should say, we knew a lot of people that's beem steadily quiting over the years. I think the ultimate downturn was when Nokia pulled out of the CDMA market, which TI had been a supplier to. That's too bad, because when I was at the Barcelona mobile conference, they actually had a pretty impressive demo of a phone running Google's android platform. More so than the breadboard version that QC was running. TI's wireless program has been in the toilet for the past couple of years, so unfortunately it's not really a surprise. I just thought that enough people had already left that there wasn't that much more attrition. Well, anyway, if you know anyone that is interested in the QC, let me know.

Anyone know about what's going on with NextWave (II)? My guess isn't not in that great of a shape either. I was around to see Nextwave (I) unravel. When I saw this company reborn, specializing in WiMax, I thought oh my. WiMax is going nowhere.

 

I guess seeing all this turmoil, with all due respect to you embedded folks, I'm sort of glad my wife and I don't do the same thing, let alone work at the same company. Though it's probably not as much as a big deal to find embedded positions out here than web 2.0+ enterprise crap that I do (no really, I really enjoy doing what I do, except the days things break 🙂 )

 

[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]

—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Nostra remember I am a 20 year engineer here!

Actually I may have been wrong about telecom… it is part telecom and part semiconductor. The company is TI. I heard about it last night. Seems to me it kind of came out of the blue but I am on the outside looking in there. I have heard varying degrees as to the size of the layoff but I "think" it is non trivial.

Anyways yeah FLU lots of diversity… as most of us old codgers know a heavy amount of our ancestry can find roots back to Link A Bit… Of course the old GD had quite a work force back in the 80's… Also though yeah lots and lots of small/medium size companies here… Comcast has a digital design team with embedded firmware development… Moto has alot here (my old stomping grounds for many years)… all kinds of support companies for EDA tools and services… I could go on and on…

Nostra I am not sure if TI is the one you heard about but it is the one I heard about.

SD Realtor

Oh crap. We know a lot of people from there. Or I should say, we knew a lot of people that's beem steadily quiting over the years. I think the ultimate downturn was when Nokia pulled out of the CDMA market, which TI had been a supplier to. That's too bad, because when I was at the Barcelona mobile conference, they actually had a pretty impressive demo of a phone running Google's android platform. More so than the breadboard version that QC was running. TI's wireless program has been in the toilet for the past couple of years, so unfortunately it's not really a surprise. I just thought that enough people had already left that there wasn't that much more attrition. Well, anyway, if you know anyone that is interested in the QC, let me know.

Anyone know about what's going on with NextWave (II)? My guess isn't not in that great of a shape either. I was around to see Nextwave (I) unravel. When I saw this company reborn, specializing in WiMax, I thought oh my. WiMax is going nowhere.

 

I guess seeing all this turmoil, with all due respect to you embedded folks, I'm sort of glad my wife and I don't do the same thing, let alone work at the same company. Though it's probably not as much as a big deal to find embedded positions out here than web 2.0+ enterprise crap that I do (no really, I really enjoy doing what I do, except the days things break 🙂 )

 

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