Coder Corner

I guess I should make it official now that I signed the contract. I am now a proud NVIDIA employee, and I will be working with my old NovodeX mates in Zürich - yep, good old Technopark. In a way it feels like moving backwards, going back to my past rather than exploring new cities, new countries, and trying new things. On the other hand, it feels curiously good to “go home”. Granted, it’s not really my home. But it feels familiar. Friendly. Safe. Secure. Just like a home should be. After 2 years in Spain it may also just feel good to go back to a place where things Just Work. No “caldera” exploding in the middle of the night, no brainless Internet provider forgetting my files on a desk for 2 months, no bad surprise when going for shopping. Of course the weather will not exactly be as gorgeous as Barcelona’s, but hey, that’s a bonus: no more sunburns.

This has been a crazy month of July. Packed with interviews, trips, phone calls. I got so many job offers it’s not even funny. While most people suffer from the financial crisis, lose their job, struggle, I got some 19 offers in the two first weeks, and they kept coming. Some of those were insanely appealing. You have no idea how hard it has been to decline all of them but one. For a while I felt like Paul Atreides, having visions of all the possible futures in all those cool places and cool countries. They really all felt good. It was an impossible task to select just one. I wish I could have worked for all of them. I wish I will, some day.

It’s been a long time since I last wrote a scrolltext but I feel like writing greetings again. In no particular order : Kenneth, Cortney, Simon, Greg, Andrew, David, Oliver, Paco, Martin, Sys, Tatiana, Christer, Christophe, Candace, Jay, Vik, Robert, Francesco, Marie-Therese, Sandra, Alexis, Joachim, Pascal, Vangelis, David. You know who you are. Thank you!!

Fecking hell, I’ll miss the craic !

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