On: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Bit Shifting

[tmuir]

Are OS kernel, driver, and embedded systems development off topic on HN? There were several embedded developer posts in the latest Who's Hiring thread. Web development is by far the largest software segment that HN focuses on, but is by no means the only one.

[jiggy2011 → tmuir]

I never suggested it was off topic, I usually enjoy reading the low level programming threads on HN.

I just wondered why it seems to considered something every CS grad/programmer should understand.

[tmuir → jiggy2011]

As an embedded developer/EE, I feel the same way, but from the other side. There is too much breadth for any single person to be proficient at all 7 layers, but from time to time, you still see job descriptions that ask for assembly, C, C++, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, CSS, Flash, Haskell, PCB Layout, VHDL, 7 yrs iOS...