Distance and illusion

Many illusions are caused by distance.

The plane was pulled by the boss to Stanford to attend the hotchip Conference, which has been around for 21 years and will be attended by countless cool people in the chip industry. Due to Conference charges, I was a little worried that I was not paid to eavesdrop. In the afternoon, the theme was Sun's rainbow fall and IBM's power7, which seemed to be the most eye-catching part of the Conference over the past few days. Sun's speaker is said to be the architect of rainbow fall. Stanford's lecture hall is too big. I can't see people clearly on the second floor, but I already know it's an Indian speaker, I can't help but lament that Indians have a very high position in Silicon Valley. They have been present in many cutting-edge fields. At the beginning of IBM's theme, due to the elimination of tension, it is now in the sleep-not-sleep-half-sleep phase. I have heard a lot of discussions about cache coherence and a lot of technical indicators, including the 32 M DRAM L3 cache of the power7.

At the end of the meeting, I saw a fellow from sun and chatted with him while having HW. In addition, Marc Tremblay, the CTO and architect of Sun's top-level processor department are now running on MS. I can't help but ask the boss, why are so many Daniel coming here to listen to these boring meetings? Although I have been sleepwalking, I still feel that there are no special technical details involved in my speech. The answer from the boss is also very simple. In summary, the Experts guard the road and the layers are busy. Through the technical parameters and new features released in the Conference, the experts can understand the new technology development direction or speculate on the implementation behind a function and technical parameters. It seems that I am really a layman. In my mind, I used to participate in the software industry event, large and small. It seems that I am not good enough?

When I met my colleagues in miguo, my previous names on emails and phone numbers turned into faces, only to find that the character setting was an illusion by text and voice, this is a bit like meeting users. There are quite a few examples of Indians and Chinese people here. The new Indian engineer in the project is very white, and I think it should be the oldest engineer I have worked.

Yinghai, one of the top ten contributors to the Linux kernel, and the double identity of Staff Engineer of S Company have always been mysterious. Open the door of his office, introduce myself, and have a pleasant long talk. In the past, his various settings were overturned. This was a typical Chinese engineer who talked about Linux and x86. Engineers are really happy to work here. They have a first-class working environment and countless cool people. Company S is a real place to hide dragons and tigers.

This time, we wanted to witness the history of the company's land change, but the EU has completely shattered this desire. During chatting, there may inevitably be various rumors and guesses in the conversation between colleagues, revealing concerns about future uncertainty. After all, there are not many job opportunities in Silicon Valley under the economic crisis. However, after the boss was laid down, he still went to Apple, still in the same position. Do you know you are lucky?

But in any case, it is unlikely to try to keep a close eye on the sidelines...