He seemed quite impressed on it and I could have probably got a position for teaching IT and Open Source if the interview would not have been about Teaching Photonics at an Applied University.ĭid you learn programming as part of your physics background or did you learn it by yourself? He was very eager to to know more about it (actually he had looked up on Simutrans a lot!) and 1/4 or the interview derailed to Simutrans and "herding" open source projects. However, at my second to last interview in 2016, one of the committee members was from the IT department. From 2010 or so I put something like Simutrans coding coordinator into my CV under other activities, mostly to have more to show. I wrote job applications for almost 50 positions but was invited only four times, which is pretty normal in my field.
After my PhD I stood in Japan (2000-2003), Berlin again to 2009, University of Cambridge 2012-2016, and from 2017 Nagoya. In my case it involved studying physics at the TU Berlin in Germany, and from 1995 or so I worked on crystal growth of semiconductors like GaAs and GaN (see the Nobel prize of 2014 to my director). Science is a little like the old medieval crafts: You have to travel a lot until you find place you can settle.
But I teach anyway a little, because I like it.) Since I have recently got my tenure that will likely stay so. (Dedicated Professor means that I do not have to teach. I am a Dedicated Professor Nagoya University in Japan. So if you found this on the internet, chances are high it is connected to me. I am Markus Pristovsek, which is a pretty unique name. Who are you? Where do you live? What did you study? Where are you working or have worked on the past? You will find that many questions are similar to those from Hajo's interview, so you have the oportunity to compare the points of view of the two most influential Simutrans developers.įirst of all, introduce yourself. It is now the turn of developer Markus Pristovsek (known as prissi) to answer some questions! Without him, we would not be here today celebrating 25th years of development. After Hajo left Simutrans, a man took care of continuing development - and has continued to do so for over 17 years (more than double the time Hajo was involved with Simutrans!).