Although the work load might have been less, there seemed to much more room for innovation, creativity and free thinking. Interestingly, when I was NOT working for such a prestigious organization I was not as bored. The intellectual challenges that I face during work are few and far between. And have been for most of the past 4 years that I have been working for this company.
So now that we have that out of the way, I can say what I really want to say … I’m bored.Īlthough I’m considered a well paid professional working for one of the most respected high-tech company in the US, and in a consulting/ “knowledge worker” position, I feel really bored with work. I think the simplest definition I would use of boredom within work-life is: The lack of intellectual challenge. With the exception of one person that I’ve discussed this with, almost everybody has this misconception, and start to solve my problem by telling me to what to do with my “spare time.” … annoying, huh? Unfortunately, being bored with worked in my current cultural environment also means not having anything to do at work. Looking at dictionary definitions, I think an interesting description of seen is that on Wikipedia: “an unpleasant, transient affective state in which the individual feels a pervasive lack of interest in and difficulty concentrating on the current activity.” (as defined by C. … Maybe that is not such a great analogy, but you get my point. To use a computer analogy, its like when you look at your computer’s CPU utilization and it says CPU 99% idle, even though you might have tons of applications open and the I/O might be very busing because you are sending files. Boredom in my opinion, is about the mind not having anything challenging to do. In fact, I think boredom has very little to do with time at all.
Windows users have been enjoying various awesome tools to help with their AVR development process like the Atmel Studio, Codevision AVR, WinAVR, IAR Embedded Workbench, etc.This doesn’t mean that Mac and Linux users are at any unfair advantage.I want to write about what I see as a common misconception.
Setting up AVR-GCC Toolchain on Linux and Mac OS X.
If you want an additional guide on all of the following steps (except for installing GCC), the one by Moncef Belyamani is quite helpful. We'll be installing GCC 4.8.1 and GDB through a tool called Homebrew. This section is intended to get you quickly started with C programming on your Mac. If you run into a problem that looks like a compiler bug, try using a different version of GCC. Use of the legacy GCC 2.95.2-based toolchain is strongly discouraged unless you have to maintain compatibility with OS X version 10.1. However, because GCC 4 is a relatively new toolchain, you may find bugs that prevent compiling certain programs.