[Kde-finance-apps] Announcing: KNameNeeded

[Brian Cappello]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> on Thursday 20 May 2010 Brian Cappello wrote:
>
>
> [...]
>
> > [Programming is,
> > IMO, much better than EE! And, maybe some day *way* off in my distant
> > (probably crazy) dreams, I'll even be able to get some form of profitable
> > systematic trading working...
>
> Did I ever mention that I have a master degree in EE and ever since been
> working in CS? You see, it's not that unusual to start out with some *real*
> hardware.
>

Oh wow, that's crazy! I'd love to here your story! I don't know if it's just
me, but it seems a lot of EEs I run into in "the Real World" have switched
professions.


> I bet though, that you will come across situations in sw projects when you
> search for bugs that are not really obvious and hard to duplicate, that you
> wish you have a hardware project where you just pull out some measurement
> equipment and you're done. At the same time, if you're working on a hw
> project, you wish to have a sw project where you just pull out the debugger
> and fix the sw in a snap.
>

Haha, I couldn't have said it better! It's always boggled my mind a bit how
hard it can be (impossible?) to *really *figure out and observe what the
code is doing at the lowest levels.

>
> Good to see you around here with some new spirit and enthusiasm.
>

Thanks, I'm definitely looking forward to getting involved.. everybody seems
so welcoming! :)


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>
> Thomas Baumgart
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