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mrkodiak

18 karma · joined August 31, 2010

Kernel hacker in Austin, TX.
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mrkodiak··on IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late August
IBM sold its retail systems business last year.

I left IBM STG middle of last year. In the span of about 6 months, half of my former department either left IBM or transferred elsewhere in the company. In the latest rounds of layoffs, I was surprised at how many good people (but middle aged) in the larger organization were dumped, and how some bare some areas have gotten (100,000's of code falls on 1 or 2 people).

mrkodiak··on IBM to Acquire SoftLayer
Support will now be done through RETAIN and PMRs.
mrkodiak··on Your code style guide is crap, but still better than nothing.
When working on code bases that follow this style, there tends to be extra whitespace turn when new code is added to re-align everything back up.
mrkodiak··on FreeBSD Foundation exceeds target for 2012
I'm curious who Mr. Anon is as well. Seems like the expected big pocket FreeBSD companies are already listed.
mrkodiak··on The OpenIndiana community
What do you think will happen when a NULL pointer is dereferenced?
mrkodiak··on Build your own operating system
Writing a toy OS is something that while seemingly intimidating, is actually pretty approachable. My mind was blown when I came across Lions' Commentary on UNIX as a HS sophomore, and I ended up spending the whole summer working on some dinky Unix'y clone.

I do OS development and most of my coworkers had similar experiences.