Zoom.us is GREAT! Video and audio quality are great, hiccups are rare, the screen sharing features are good, and it integrates easily into our physical offices with a decent iPad app. (I've tried hangouts, hipchat video, appear.in, and a few others, but Zoom is much better.)
As a remote employee, the Owl makes it much easier to be a part of a discussion around a table where most of the meeting participants are in a room at HQ, and a few of us are remote. (I know some of the employees, so I'm biased, but I like to think I would love the Owl even if I didn't know some of the team.)
Thanks for mentioning this camera; it's a huge step up from the system that my company has (hardwired) in conference rooms, and I'll look into purchasing one to trial.
Re: "This one is freely available -- and quite good."
All of the chapters/essays in the "Architecture of Open Source Applications" volumes 1 and 2 are freely available, in case that's not clear on the AOSA website: http://www.aosabook.org/en/
This book is from 1989, but it's a timeless and fascinating look at the minds of Bill Gates, Andy Hertzfeld (apple/mac), Dan Bricklin (visicalc), and 16 others.
iRobot | Software Engineers | Bedford, MA (near Boston, MA) and Pasadena, CA | ONSITE
iRobot is hiring software engineers like they're going out of style. Which they're not. Quite the opposite, really.
If you want to work with a bunch of friendly humans and robots, you should consider iRobot.
We've got a great culture, benefits, and products.
Most positions are for our Bedford, MA headquarters, which is just outside of Boston, MA.
We're looking for people to do embedded (aka firmware for buzzword compliance), cloud, mobile/iOS, test, and hardcore robotics as well. Those aren't the same person, mind you. We're also looking for electrical engineers and mechanical engineers.
We use mostly C and C++, with some Python along the way as well.
You do NOT need any robotics experience - I had none when I joined!
Firmware is a buzzword for embedded? I don't think this is right. In my experience "firmware" is a subset of embedded programming, referring to low-level bare-metal code such as bootloaders and microcontroller applications (literally code stored in ROM). "Embedded" more broadly refers to any code for systems other than servers, web and personal computers (including e.g. embedded Linux).
"Firmware" has been a term of art for as long as I've been programming, which is probably longer than a lot of readers on this site have been alive, so I'm not sure how it qualifies as a buzzword. Unless people doing Linux application programming now call themselves "firmware" engineers because they work on embedded systems?
iRobot | Software Engineers | Bedford, MA (near Boston, MA) and Pasadena, CA | ONSITE
iRobot is hiring software engineers like they're going out of style. Which they're not. Quite the opposite, really.
If you want to work with a bunch of friendly humans and robots, you should consider iRobot.
We've got a great culture, benefits, and products.
Most positions are for our Bedford, MA headquarters, which is just outside of Boston, MA.
We're looking for people to do embedded (aka firmware for buzzword compliance), test, and hardcore robotics as well. Those aren't the same person, mind you. We're also looking for electrical engineers and mechanical engineers.
We use mostly C and C++, with some Python along the way as well.
You do NOT need any robotics experience - I had none when I joined!
Check out our careers site and email me if anything looks interesting:
I also highly recommend the Owl 360 degree video camera/speaker: https://www.owllabs.com/
As a remote employee, the Owl makes it much easier to be a part of a discussion around a table where most of the meeting participants are in a room at HQ, and a few of us are remote. (I know some of the employees, so I'm biased, but I like to think I would love the Owl even if I didn't know some of the team.)