From mark_galeck at pacbell.net Mon Jul 5 22:17:25 2004 From: mark_galeck at pacbell.net (Mark Galeck) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 15:17:25 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Hacking as an extropian activity Message-ID: <000301c462dd$da6baa40$508e6845@andromeda> Hello, We have a hacking job opening at SBS Technologies, and there are candidates aplenty but not qualified. I am taking the liberty of posting it to exi-bay and Alcor North lists because I think hacking can be thought of as extropian activity, and many Alcor members are programmers. Please accept my apologies and tell me what parts of my body will get pulled out, in case you think I am stretching it. So ... 1. The job is in Newark, a short reverse commute from South Bay. 2. You need to have MS in a technical discipline. 3. The pay is on par with average in the industry and the region 4. You need to be fluent in C and programming in general - since there is a general inflation of superlatives in this area, let me attempt to make this precise: If I asked you on the interview, to design a linked list with an abstract data type and a function that inverts one, you could pretty much do it immediately without thinking and it would be efficient and work right away. Same if I ask you to show example of a race condition and how to get around it. Same if I ask you to design a function that allocates memory, aligned on a power-of-two boundary, without memory leak. 5. This is a nice company. What I mean is, every company has dumb suits and certain amount of general stupidity, and this one does too, but less than average. And there is absence of managerial or peer pressure to work overtime. Time is very flexible. On the other hand, if you like to surf web at work, don't bother. If you think you can handle this, contact me directly at company e-mail mgalecki at sbs.com Hurry we're wrapping this up soon. Mark Galecki From bronto at pobox.com Sun Jul 25 03:56:10 2004 From: bronto at pobox.com (Anton Sherwood) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 20:56:10 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Lick Observatory Message-ID: <41032F5A.1060501@pobox.com> Dad's coming to visit, and he suggested driving up to Lick Observatory. Have any of you done that? How long does it take? Is the ride likely to be hard on one's digestion? -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/ From mark_galeck at pacbell.net Sun Jul 25 04:26:45 2004 From: mark_galeck at pacbell.net (Mark Galeck) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:26:45 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Lick Observatory In-Reply-To: <41032F5A.1060501@pobox.com> Message-ID: <005601c471ff$985c4700$fdf46845@andromeda> I've done it a couple of times. 1hr from San Jose enjoying the scenery. Go slow and have him ride in front and look to the distance in the front and he will be OK. Very interesting up on top, you can see the scopes and exhibits, sometimes they have musical events and cookies and you can look through the big scopes, they cost something like $30 and usually sell in advance. You can go down in the other direction towards Livermore, also scenic, but longer, say 1 1/2h something like that. -----Original Message----- From: exi-bay-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:exi-bay-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Anton Sherwood Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 8:56 PM To: Middle Beyond Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Lick Observatory Dad's coming to visit, and he suggested driving up to Lick Observatory. Have any of you done that? How long does it take? Is the ride likely to be hard on one's digestion? -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/ _______________________________________________ exi-bay-chat mailing list exi-bay-chat at lists.extropy.org http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/exi-bay-chat From Achut.Reddy at Sun.COM Fri Jul 30 18:56:33 2004 From: Achut.Reddy at Sun.COM (Achut Reddy) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:56:33 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Lick Observatory In-Reply-To: <41032F5A.1060501@pobox.com> References: <41032F5A.1060501@pobox.com> Message-ID: <410A99E1.7010309@Sun.COM> I've done it many times, though I've gone up many more times on bicycle! It's also a great motorcycle ride. By car it's ideal if you have an open air roadster. It's a twisty mountain road, and according to legend there are exactly 365 turns -- one for every day of the year. I highly recommend the "Music of the Spheres" summer concert series at the observatory. These are typically light classical or accoustic concerts in a cool venue (it was even cooler a few years ago when they used to hold the concert IN the actual telescope dome, but they stopped that for the usual liability reasons). Note that besides the observatories themselves, there is not much in the way of facilities -- no gas station, restaurants, stores, etc. There is a gift shop where you can get nice astronomy prints (my favorite is a shot of half dome, taken from the observatory, which has line of sight on a clear day!). James Lick himself is buried at the base of the 36" telescope... not a bad grave marker! Achut Anton Sherwood wrote: > Dad's coming to visit, and he suggested driving up to Lick Observatory. > Have any of you done that? How long does it take? Is the ride likely > to be hard on one's digestion? >