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1. stig atle (stigatle@quitter.no)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 18:12:56 UTC stig atle
   How are you all doing tonight?
   • stig atle (stigatle@quitter.no)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 18:23:22 UTC stig atle

     • Anna Grímsdóttir
     @grimsdottir Doing fine too thanks, just got the kids to sleep, currently firing up Flightgear.
     As for programming ideas - I'm burnt out on that so I do not have any ideas at the moment.. :(
   • stig atle (stigatle@quitter.no)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 18:44:08 UTC stig atle

     • der Jeff
     @derjeff The way it should be :)
   • stig atle (stigatle@quitter.no)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 18:54:25 UTC stig atle

     • der Jeff
     @derjeff Doing fine, got some time on the computer now, trying to figure out what to do, been playing some flight sim, now I'm wondering if I should start on a new 3d project or do some work on some of my existing 3d projects, or something completely different heh, hard to decide tonight for sure.
   • stig atle (stigatle@quitter.no)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 19:06:19 UTC stig atle

     • der Jeff
     @derjeff My day job is creating real-time 3d for oil rig simulators. I work for National Oilwell Varco in Norway.
     I do most of the 3d models, code in house tools, code c#\c++ for the simulator itself. We are a small group of engineers working on it.
     It is the most advanced simulator in the oil bussiness, so it's very cool to have been part of it since the project started (it started on my desk many years ago, and has evolved into a very good product.).
     On my free time the last years I've been integrating Luxrender ( http://luxrender.net ) into 3dsmax as a render plugin. But now I'm moving away from 3dsmax for my personal projects and now I want to focus more on Blender and sidefx houdini. I've been using 3dsmax daily for 16 years, so it's time to do something else, at least at home.
     Got some of my personal things up on https://stigatle.no , I try to write a bit now and then when I do stuff.
     
     Image of one of our simulators:
     https://quitter.no/attachment/1125844
     Cambiame a https://gnusocial.villanos.net/colegota repeated this.
   • stig atle (stigatle@quitter.no)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 19:28:35 UTC stig atle

     • der Jeff
     @derjeff Cool, that sounds like a nice job for sure. It's good that you work in a good environment, if you enjoy your job then that is what's most important.
     We've had some crazy layoffs the last 2 years, been really stressful, we went from 5000 employees down to 1700 I think just in Norway (I do not remember the exact numbers, but its' roughly around that number), but in total in the company globally we've lost a massive amount of engineers. I'm lucky to still be around (most likely due to what I do and my experience and all that, been there 11 years already). I like my job, if I did not like it I'd be out the door when the layoffs started (voluntarily) - but I decided early on to stay and ride it out.