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Embedded Software Engineer for Allworx ( We make small business telephony servers and VoIP telephones) Allworx.com

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Jan 20	comment	Is it possible to write software that doesn't need to be continually modified? Changing software seems easier and less expensive than hardware, but is it really? Yes, I can go make a change and pretty much instantly make a new build with the push of my finger. However, the build still needs to go through validation/QA. What was the opportunity cost? What would I have been doing instead of fixing this bug. What would QA have been doing had they not needed to re-validate the software. Was a different projects pushed off to get this fix to market? There are lot a "hidden" costs people don't think about. It might be easier, but not necessarily less expensive.
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Nov 29	answered	When should I use static variables with primitive types?
Oct 18	comment	Will B-Trees and Other Data Structures Become Obsolete With The Advent of Solid State Drives? Are you asking if they will become obsolete from a database implementation standpoint or in general because the have a lot of other applications outside of database applications.
Sep 9	comment	Is wrapping third-party API calls a design smell? Functionally you would get the same result, but not all aspects of code development are about function.
Sep 9	answered	Is wrapping third-party API calls a design smell?
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May 11	comment	Is reusability roughly synonymous with good design? I would argue that flexibility is more important. Having an underlying architecture that tries to accommodated the reality that something will probably change or get add later is key my opinion. Reusablity almost comes for free at that point.
May 9	comment	What lessons did you learn from a project which nearly/actually failed due to bad multithreading? debuggers are largely useless in a multi-thread environment.
May 9	comment	What lessons did you learn from a project which nearly/actually failed due to bad multithreading? callbacks are not evil...the fact they do anything other than thread break is probably the root of the evil. I would be highly suspect of any callback that didn't just send a token to message queue.
May 6	answered	Embedded systems learning: next step
May 2	comment	What would make you adopt a language with very few resources and tools, barely any libraries and more or less no other users for a project? Java pretty much had an extensive library from the start, Plus, it was one of the first machine independent languages. Not to mention it was backed by Sun.