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07-07-2008
Your view of science and technology?
06-26-2008
What's your defect removal efficiency?
06-16-2008
What about a mandatory software PE?
06-10-2008
The history of computing?
05-27-2008
Engineering ages at your company?
05-21-2008
What's your attitude on product bugs?
05-14-2008
How do you define your job?
05-14-2008
How do you define your job?
05-06-2008
What's your tech education background?
04-23-2008
Your defensive programming strategy?
04-16-2008
What's your preferred engineering organization?
04-07-2008
Hiring at your company:
03-24-2008
Best thing about conferences:
03-17-2008
"Embedded" means:
03-11-2008
What's your typical work-week?
02-27-2008
Number of assembly languages you’ve used:
02-19-2008
What's your commute?
02-11-2008
Your current project uses:
02-05-2008
How to fix a demotivated team:
01-30-2008
Cause of voting machine woes:
01-23-2008
What qualifies an engineer to be a "master craftsman?"
01-14-2008
How big will your current project be?
01-07-2008
What's your opinion about MMUs?
12-19-2007
Your view of R&D:
12-10-2007
Your most important desk tool?
11-28-2007
How much math do you use in your job?
11-13-2007
We do backups:
10-30-2007
Program Code Comments?
10-22-2007
Your take on future of embedded systems:
10-16-2007
What's a possible Fifth Law of Robotics?
10-09-2007
India's embedded future:
09-24-2007
Software Warranties:
09-17-2007
Engineering Unions?
09-14-2007
What's your take on the Embedded Systems Conference?
08-21-2007
Barrier to adopting agile in embedded?
08-14-2007
Favorite tech ads:
08-08-2007
Your take on H-1B visas:
07-30-2007
Hours honestly worked per week:
07-25-2007
Watchdogs?
07-18-2007
What's your take on degrees?
07-18-2007
What's your take on degrees?
07-10-2007
Time spent at work vs with being your spouse:
07-03-2007
Your primary embedded development methodology?
06-27-2007
What's the best part of engineering:
06-19-2007
Society's take on science?
06-13-2007
My job:
06-06-2007
My office 'net access:
05-30-2007
What's in your toolbox?
05-23-2007
Your annual firmware tool costs per developer
05-16-2007
Do you Telecommute?
05-08-2007
What's my skill rating?
05-01-2007
What was your first scope?
04-25-2007
What's your scheduling technique?
04-18-2007
Who's your preferred ICE supplier?
04-10-2007
What’s your product's CPU loading:
03-28-2007
What's your commenting strategy?
03-19-2007
What do you think of C?
03-13-2007
Features on electronic gizmos:
03-05-2007
What's your target hardware availability?
02-28-2007
What about e-voting?
02-21-2007
What is the cost of firmware maintenance?
02-12-2007
In your career, relative weight of theory vs. experience:
02-06-2007
Your retirement:
01-31-2007
What's your take on payscales?
01-23-2007
What does aging US engineers signal?
01-17-2007
What's your personal life vs. work balance?
01-08-2007
Data management COTS software:
01-02-2007
What's the next great tech?
12-18-2006
What's your typical build time?
12-11-2006
When a part end-of-lifes we:
12-06-2006
Who's the best programmer?
11-28-2006
Is there an engineering shortage?
11-20-2006
Do you perform self audits?
11-15-2006
What's your take on quality
11-06-2006
How do you estimate stack size?
11-01-2006
What are your expectations for the election?
10-23-2006
What was your first technology?
10-16-2006
When a software project goes awry we:
10-11-2006
Your experience with a trade:
10-02-2006
Do you ever have to deliver to a "show schedule"?
09-28-2006
What's your Walter Mitty dream?
09-18-2006
Do you perform code inspections?
09-12-2006
Working in India:
09-06-2006
Your plans for embedded Linux?
08-30-2006
What's your take on UML?
08-21-2006
What's your primary embedded 32 bit CPU programming language?
08-15-2006
Government regulation of software development?
08-08-2006
What's your take on Quantum computing:
08-02-2006
What's your interest in science?
07-31-2006
When you first started reading EDN?
07-26-2006
How do the systems you create get tested?
07-18-2006
What do you think of E-voting?
07-10-2006
When we cancel a project...
07-06-2006
What is your out development strategy?
07-05-2006
What is your out development strategy?
06-28-2006
Where do you use refactoring?
06-19-2006
Need reliable firmware?
06-12-2006
Threats to development tools:
06-05-2006
From what does complexity stem?
05-31-2006
Intel's embedded CPUs?
05-22-2006
What do you think of current RTOS choices?
05-15-2006
Five years from now:
05-08-2006
Engineers:
05-01-2006
How much vacation time do you get per year?
04-25-2006
What's your opinion about Green business?
04-18-2006
Software Development?
04-12-2006
When you introduce yourself as an engineer at a party,
what’s the reaction?
03-29-2006
What language do you use to speak to the boss?
03-21-2006
Your view of filtering for political correctness?
03-13-2006
What's your take on manned Mars missions?
03-08-2006
What is your favorite marketroid phrase?
03-01-2006
What do you brainstorm?
02-22-2006
What's your take on engineering?
02-15-2006
What is your maintenance philosophy?
02-07-2006
What level of perfection do you think is possible in firmware?
02-01-2006
Best productivity tool?
01-25-2006
How do you test quality in your shop?
01-18-2006
How do you manage compiler upgrades?
01-10-2006
What frustrates you most?
01-03-2006
What did you do for New Year's?
12-21-2005
What has been the most troubled decade?
12-14-2005
How painful is it to add parts to your product?
12-06-2005
What's your commenting style?
11-30-2005
How much power does your product's computer consume?
11-23-2005
Which career do you think has the most promising future?
11-16-2005
For what should electronic surveillance should be allowed?
11-09-2005
What’s your primary CPU architecture?
11-02-2005
How should English evolve?
10-26-2005
How many firmware developers does your current project have?
10-19-2005
How do you evaluate failure modes?
10-12-2005
How do you rate the job market?
10-05-2005
How do you minimize bugs?
09-28-2005
How reliable do you think your code is?
09-21-2005
Your products have a lifespan of:
09-14-2005
Static analysis is:
09-07-2005
What is the "right" software methodology?
08-31-2005
Did the Gulf Coast get hit by a product of global warming?
08-24-2005
What do you expect your retirement to be like?
08-17-2005
What do you apply worst-case analysis to?
08-10-2005
Do you send firmware updates...
08-03-2005
Has a demand for more efficiency impacted your designs?
07-26-2005
How many non-embedded computers does your family own?
07-20-2005
Does your company track the value of its code?
07-13-2005
How do you control software code quality?
07-06-2005
When interviewing a developer, do you think a degree is:
06-29-2005
How many microprocessors surround your life?
06-22-2005
How many books on software engineering have you read in the last year?
06-15-2005
What's your take on EULAs?
06-08-2005
Rate your driving
05-31-2005
Do you consider yourself:
05-25-2005
How many wall warts are in your house?
05-19-2005
How do you feel about certification for developers?
05-12-2005
How do you rate your users:
05-05-2005
What is your favorite tool?
04-28-2005
Your idea of the perfect development environment:
04-21-2005
Have you ever worked on a firmware effort that was abandoned?
04-14-2005
What’s your average work-week?
04-07-2005
What is your education level?
03-31-2005
How do you ensure your code violates no copyrights or patents?
03-23-2005
How do you classify our profession?
03-17-2005
How much does your code cost?
03-10-2005
After your product is in the field, how often do you seek out feedback from the end users?
03-03-2005
What's your take on the Embedded Systems Conference?
02-24-2005
When something breaks, what do you do?
02-17-2005
What kind of reset method do you favor?
02-10-2005
When you think “HP” the first thing that comes to mind is:
02-03-2005
What do you think the minimum training for embedded developers should be?
01-27-2005
How well do your parents, or others of that generation, deal with technology?
01-20-2005
What should we do with the ancient developers?
01-12-2005
Do you audit your outgoing email?
01-06-2005
What is your office environment like?
12-30-2004
Will you donate to the earthquake relief agencies?
12-23-2004
How fast do you crank code?
12-16-2004
How do you rate your tools in terms of visualizing the meaning of a program?
12-09-2004
What does "DSO" mean to you?
12-02-2004
What special gift do you expect from your employer this Christmas?
11-24-2004
If software kills, who do you blame?
11-18-2004
Who does software maintenance at your company?
11-09-2004
How hard is it to get your products through the FCC and CE approval process?
11-02-2004
What parts of your company’s products do you work on? (Check all that apply)
10-28-2004
How confident are you that your e-vote will be tallied correctly?
10-21-2004
What's the approximate ratio of software developers to hardware developers in your organization?
10-14-2004
How do you improve your software skills?
10-06-2004
With which industry sector do you identify?
09-22-2004
How important is security in the products you design?
09-02-2004
In your company how much embedded software is developed in-house?
08-26-2004
What kind of connectivity do you design into your products?
07-29-2004
How do you provide in-the-field updates to your products?
07-22-2004
What static analysis tools do you use?
07-15-2004
What do you do during downloads?
07-08-2004
Who picks the OS at your company?
07-01-2004
What methodologies do you use?
06-23-2004
What’s your company’s model for firmware development?
06-16-2004
How many facts do you remember from your college classes?
06-10-2004
Are your taxes too high?
06-03-2004
How important is knowing assembly language?
05-26-2004
How do you determine firmware requirements?
05-20-2004
How does your company treat the developers?
05-12-2004
Why don't you use software standards religiously?
05-06-2004
How much do you trust ATMs and e-voting systems?
04-29-2004
What's your company’s approach to testing embedded projects?
04-22-2004
What's the next big communications breakthrough?
04-15-2004
What's your general level of satisfaction with your embedded tool vendors?
04-08-2004
What fudge factor do you apply to your schedules?
03-25-2004
How happy are you with your career?
03-18-2004
How concerned are you about your long-term career prospects?
03-11-2004
Is Rentacoder.com a good thing?
03-04-2004
In your last embedded project, which methodology tools did you use?
02-25-2004
What do you think of the code snippet "while(42)?"
02-17-2004
How important is having a "feel" for the code to developing great firmware?
02-10-2004
How do you kill time at the office?
02-03-2004
Would your boss buy a component of your system or have you develop it?
01-26-2004
How do you manage imperfect firmware?
01-20-2004
How reliable was the code in your last project?
01-12-2004
What will firmware development be like in 2014?
01-05-2004
What's the coolest new tech toy of 2004?
12-18-2003
In software engineering, what is refactoring?
12-11-2003
Engineers will be unionized when:
12-04-2003
What's a nanosecond to you?
11-20-2003
What will your company pay for an "optional" tool, like a source code analyzer?
11-13-2003
How well do you like developing with a GUI?
11-06-2003
What's your worst software nightmare?
10-30-2003
What's the best voting technology?
10-23-2003
What annoys you most about tech products?
10-16-2003
What do you like most about C?
10-07-2003
What's the best thing about hurricanes?
10-02-2003
Who will be the next governor of California?
09-25-2003
Are you willing to put up with remote electronic monitoring of your driving for increased safety?
09-11-2003
What's the best part of a power failure?
09-04-2003
Do you ever attend the Embedded Systems Conference?
08-28-2003
What do prospective employers demand today?
08-21-2003
What are you willing to pay in per-unit licensing fees for an embedded OS?
08-14-2003
Did you co-op in college? How was the experience?
08-07-2003
Does your company understand firmware costs?
07-31-2003
Why do you design all your own hardware?
07-23-2003
Does your company ever go down avoidable and expensive blind alleys during development?
07-17-2003
Are you a superprogrammer? Rate your skills:
07-09-2003
What's your experience with age discrimination?
06-25-2003
How do you feel about H1-B visas
06-25-2003
what time is it?
06-25-2003
test question
06-19-2003
Are you aware of any deliberately introduced security flaw in an embedded system?
06-11-2003
Is threatening email ever justifiable?
06-04-2003
Do you consider yourself a Renaissance person?
05-29-2003
How truthful was the resume you created to get your last job?
05-21-2003
What's the likelihood of Microsoft dominating the embedded systems market?
05-15-2003
Engineers build and rebuild the world. Why can't we get any respect?
05-08-2003
What's the best part of your job?
04-29-2003
How do you create a development schedule?
04-17-2003
What sort of embedded RTOS do you anticipate using in the next few years?
04-10-2003
What are your engineering credentials?
04-03-2003
What career advice would you give your kids?
03-27-2003
How do you describe your profession to non-techies?
03-19-2003
On the systems you design, how many of the features are really important for bare system functionality?
03-12-2003
In the last year how many "sick" days did you take for something other than illness?
03-03-2003
How much time do you spend debugging your embedded system?
02-27-2003
Are you designing Internet-connected products?
02-20-2003
Embedded systems will soon be used to track your every move. Is this a problem?
02-10-2003
In the aftermath of the Columbia tragedy, how should we approach space missions?
01-29-2003
When you stumble into a WiFi link, what do you do?
01-14-2003
How do you feel about digital rights?
01-02-2003
How many gadgets -- phone, notebook, MP3 player, PDA -- do you typically carry?
12-16-2002
What's your philosophy on helping others?
12-02-2002
What's your prognosis for the next 12 months in our industry?
11-08-2002
What's the one thing that will make you buy a new PC?
10-31-2002
How are you bound to your job?
10-12-2002
Confused by kB, KB, kibi, kilo? What do you prefer?
09-25-2002
What debug tools have you used this year?
09-10-2002
In light of the WTC's failure, how should we engineers approach future vulnerable designs?
08-30-2002
How much vacation time do you actually take per year?
08-15-2002
Do you have or plan to get digital TV?
08-01-2002
How do you deal with errors in your code?
07-15-2002
In your embedded system, do you use:
06-27-2002
In the past year have your skills:
06-14-2002
What do you think of most user's manuals?
05-30-2002
How would you rate your college education?
05-14-2002
How do you feel about certification for developers?
04-29-2002
When you select development products, how important is the supplier's financial viability?
04-05-2002
Do you expect to retire as a developer or engineer?
03-25-2002
Are we legally culpable for our design failures?
03-08-2002
Are embedded systems creating a have and have-not world?
03-01-2002
What's your embedded profile?
02-22-2002
How concerned are you about privacy?
02-15-2002
If you're not going to an embedded show this year, why not?
02-08-2002
What's the most expensive mistake you've made in the lab?
02-01-2002
Can your significant other define "embedded system?"
01-25-2002
Dream: if you had no practical restrictions, which language would you use for embedded develoopment?
01-18-2002
How's your weight?
01-11-2002
If you're designing consumer products, how important is quality?
01-04-2002
Have you ever been involved with a project that suffered an important firmware recall?
12-21-2001
How do you feel about books crammed with code listings?
12-14-2001
How much code in your last project was reused from a prior product?
12-07-2001
Do you think the title "engineer" should be restricted to those with engineering degrees?
11-30-2001
Are you incorporating Linux as the target OS in an embedded system today?
11-19-2001
In 2002 do you think your job will be more fun, less fun or about the same fun level as in 2001?
11-19-2001
Do you think business for your company in 2002 will be better, worse, or about the same as it was in 2001?
11-12-2001
What's your job title?
10-31-2001
How many firmware developers worked on your last project?
10-23-2001
Why did you become an engineer?
10-15-2001
Is there still room in a company for a quirky "guru," or are projects so large now by necessity team-based development rules.
10-09-2001
Why do hardware designers seem to have fewer bugs than firmware developers?
10-01-2001
Compared to a year ago, how do you feel about your job security?
09-25-2001
How satisfied are you with your desktop's horsepower?
09-17-2001
How many books have you read in the last six months?
08-22-2001
On average, when you buy a compiler, how many months of use does it get before being shelved?
08-13-2001
Is technical suitability to the project the most important criteria you use in selecting a language?
07-31-2001
Which language do you use for embedded work?
07-20-2001
When interviewing a developer, do you think a degree is:
07-06-2001
Are you compensated for the overtime you work
06-22-2001
Do you ever have to deliver to a "show schedule"?
06-07-2001
Over time do your systems drift into spaghetti code?
05-25-2001
Are you currently using Extreme Programming (XP) in your embedded work?
05-11-2001
Are you designing an Internet-connected embedded app now?
05-04-2001
Do you feel many embedded systems impose silly delays?
04-20-2001
Rate the quality of your last delivered system:
03-12-2001
Do you design products that meaningfully affect people's lives?
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