I took an OS in college in 2006 and the big project that my prof required us to do was to make modification of visopsys. The software was primitive at that time but still had UI interface.
I emailed the author to ask some questions in my project. The author had connection with my prof and informed my prof about this. My prof told me that I was not allowed to ask the author regarding this project. So I had to figured out on my own.
It was fun to play around with and learnt how things work at deep OS level. It was a good memory for me :)
And you guys notice anything about my username? :)
No, I am not the author. I just liked the project and the name that I chose it for my hackernews account 14 years ago. No intention to misrepresent the project or the author.
Totally agree. I view startup as a marathon rather than short run. The most important thing for an engineer is productivity. I dont think any engineer would be productive after 8 hours of working. If this happens frequently, something's wrong with that company.
100% agreed. And maybe more than 100%. I gave a talk a couple years back on "Building a Sustainable Startup" and said that it was even worse than running a marathon. Doing a startup was like developing a running career.
You can watch the video if you want, but the relevant gist is that I knew people who trained for marathons and really wrecked themselves. They did one, said "never again", and then quit running. Whereas I, a slow fat guy, took my running much more gradually, and now have been running 7 years. I even just did my first triathlon a couple months back.
I emailed the author to ask some questions in my project. The author had connection with my prof and informed my prof about this. My prof told me that I was not allowed to ask the author regarding this project. So I had to figured out on my own.
It was fun to play around with and learnt how things work at deep OS level. It was a good memory for me :)
And you guys notice anything about my username? :)