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Hi Don,

I can agree on all counts!

In my next life I want to be a handy man that only sweeps the walkway the
reason being that even if a tornado had been raging war on the side walk I
would always know, that when the clock goes 16:00 I'm out of there in an
instant and people can complaint all they way then I slap the "I'm a state
employee" in their face and they accept the fact that no matter how much the
scream its hopeless :-D

Regards
Lasse




 





-----Original Message-----
From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Don Ingram
Sent: 1. september 2005 02:04
To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] I hate my new tools too!


> Sorry to keep the thread going I'm just so pissed off :/
> 
> Regards
> Lasse Madsen 
> 
> 

Welcome to embedded development.

I too had wondrous expectations when I started way too long ago. Pay good
money, 
get reliable tools, chips always worked as in the data sheet.  Reality was a
bit 
different...

1. Tools ( including very expensive ones ) were often full of bugs. Support
is 
often sketchy and usually starts at denial & then moves forward once you
spend 
all the time isolating and identifying the bug for them...

2. IC's have bugs & the manufacturer states that they don't. Well, until
enough 
people speak up about the bug & it can't be hidden any more.

3. Design is easy, purchasing parts & actually getting them delivered to
<your> 
address is tricky.

1st law of freight - If the job is really really urgent and you need parts
for a 
long weekends work then if you order them by overnight airfreight pixies
will 
kidnap them & have them sent to the other side of the country. Alternatively
the 
courier company will leave the box sitting on the floor at your end and
swear 
blind that they didn't make the flight.  Probability of this occurring is 
directly proportional to the clients capacity to yell and grumble when the
job 
is late.

4. Accountants will always force engineering to deliver at half the cost.
Sales 
will always force engineering to deliver in half the time. Bugs and other 
nonsense will force engineering to deliver at twice the cost and twice the
time. 
Bosses don't care either way It' will always be your fault anyway ;-)

5. Age makes landscaping or gardening look like an attractive career option.

Have a good one ;-)

Don



 
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