Leaving NI (for real this time)... for SpaceX

[Aristos Queue]

June 3 will be my last working day at NI. After almost 22 years, I'm stepping away from the company. Why? I found a G programming job in a field I love. Starting June 20, I'm going to be working at SpaceX on ground control for Falcon and Dragon. 

This news went public with customers at NI Connect this week. I figured I should post to the wider LabVIEW community here on LAVA. 

I want to thank you all for being amazing customers and letting me participate vicariously in so many cool engineering projects over the years. I'm still going to be a part of the LabVIEW community, but I'm not going to be making quite such an impact on G users going forward... until the day that they start needing developers on Mars -- remote desktop with a multi-minute delay between mouse clicks is such a pain! 🙂 

 

[MikaelH]

I'm very happy for you.
Thanks for all your support over the years.
Anytime you need any help, just let me know.

[drjdpowell]

Good luck AQ,

Hope your new employer still lets you attend a conference or two in Europe.

[Neil Pate]

Nice! While you are there please convince Elon to buy NI and turn it back into an engineering company 🤣

[hooovahh]

Congrats, and I hope you find your new work rewarding, and stimulating.  Thanks for all your help to the NI community, and LabVIEW in general.

[sam]

Indeed you've been a key resource for most of the functionality that I hold in high regards within LabVIEW.  I wish you all the best in your new role. 

[ShaunR]

Awesome. Congrats.

 

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

Fun! Good luck in your new endeavor. But the LabVIEW development team loses a very valuable and important member for sure.

[X___]

8 hours ago, Rolf Kalbermatter said:

Fun! Good luck in your new endeavor. But the LabVIEW development team loses a very valuable and important member for sure.

Probably not the first one and most likely not the last?

[viSci]

Two of the most consummate software architects (AQ and Jack Dunnaway) in league with the worlds greatest technology visionary (Elon), so there is much to be optimistic about.

Let's make LabVIEW multi-planetary and beyond...Ad Astra!

Edited May 30, 2022 by viSci

[Antoine Chalons]

It was very nice to have you as an NI insider participating on LAVA, wish you a lot of fun in your new mission.

[Antoine Chalons]

hey... wait a minute, does this mean that when a class is loaded on host and on RT target, it will be locked, and we'll be stuck with this limitation untill the end of LabVIEW?

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

1 hour ago, Antoine Chalons said:

hey... wait a minute, does this mean that when a class is loaded on host and on RT target, it will be locked, and we'll be stuck with this limitation untill the end of LabVIEW?

Not sure why you respond in this thread with this. But yes that has always been like this. Except that the locking goes away if you remove the reference to the class, or library from any but one of the targets.

Edited June 7, 2022 by Rolf Kalbermatter

[Antoine Chalons]

13 minutes ago, Rolf Kalbermatter said:

Not sure why you respond in this thread with this.

I've just watched this :