“Become CEO”

This is a mathRant but I love it

First dev job: port Unix on Transputer, a (now defunct) bizarre processor with no stack, no registers and no compiler. That was fun! And that was in 1991 😎

Bye bye Austin and South by Southwest

Have a great working week guys! I will spent it on the beach with my devRant t-shirt! Locals love it!

My dev area of focus: Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
Why: because I am the CEO 🤓

Another programming job: the first 5,183 decimals of pi, in wood sticks. Took me three months to do. Now I start e

main() should be start()

Annoying Orange would probably have been the best devRanter! And a sticker himself!
https://youtu.be/keCA5fLf0FQ

Worst meeting ever? The one I am in right now. I am trying to post this rant but a guy keeps asking me questions ...

I learned how to program during my MSc at UC Santa Barbara in 1988. But the real thing happened during my first job as software engineer at Chorus Systems, in Paris, with the guidance of some of the world's best mentors, Russian engineers who taught me how to approach code design as if it was playing chess. These guys were brilliant!

I love my new old-fashioned typewriter like keyboard! Works like a charm and makes fantastic noise each time I press a letter.

Some devs would kill for this fish bowl. Hanging out at The Next Web with the devRant team

Timing ...

To the new devs: at least once a week, go for a walk outside

Wake up guys!

Meeting girls

Tintin. Started influencing me when I was 7. Still does! PS: yes, I am Belgian.

My non-programming project: the first 10.000 decimals of pi, in small wood sticks. 9.974 to go ...

Laundry day for developers

Sorry if this a repeat ... I take my chance: https://toggl.com/programming-princ...

This formula from Gödel's incompleteness theorem. It basically says there is no hope to ever know if your program is correct ... 😁

When I get bored, nothing better than reading a few pages of Gauss' masterpiece

The punk with different coloured shoes who hired me in 1990

Worst project: porting SCO Unix on Chorus Microkernel. That was in 1995. Great project BUT after months of efforts finally SCO pulled the plug, a few weeks before we were about to get the kernel to boot ... Aarrgghh

1986. Commodore 64 computer. First program in assembler to move cursor on screen. I will never forget that day.

Straight to the brain

Respect
http://qz.com/726338/...

I went to Paris for my first interview (that was 1989) for a job of Unix kernel developer. All dressed up. I step out of the elevator and see a young punk with scruffy hair and different colour shoes. I reckon he must be the pizza delivery guy. I ask him "dude, can you please point me to the CEO's office for interview". He said "sure, follow me man, I'll show you". We arrive at a desk, he sat down in the big chair and looks at me with a big smile and says "Ok dude, here we are. I am the CEO. Now let's see how good you are!"
I got the job. And 26 years latet, last week, amazing coincidence: I met him again at a trade show in Paris ... with the same coloured shoes. How cool is that!!!

Happy ranter