Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by SeekingMeaning on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:11PM
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Ah yes, the programmers blame the engineers, and the engineers blame the programmers
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Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by dvh on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:28PM
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When Einstein worked on nuclear bomb the saying was: If he fails French will say he's American, Americans will say he's German, and Germans will say he's Jew. If he succeed Germans will say he's German, Americans will say he's American, and French will say he belongs to the world.
Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by schoen on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:49PM
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His comment was about the theory of relativity rather than the bomb:
Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by conistonwater on Friday January 24, 2020 @07:55PM
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Einstein didn't work on the nuclear bomb at all. According to https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/peace-and-war/the-..., he wrote that famous letter to Roosevelt and was later denied the necessary security clearance.
Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by yongjik on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:51PM
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Amateurs. Real programmers blame other programmers.
Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by pier25 on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:04PM
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Jesus who wrote this crap code?
Looks at commit history
Oh it was me...
Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by bigiain on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:38PM
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Past-me is such an idiot...
Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by calciphus on Saturday January 25, 2020 @06:05AM
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We should both know better
Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by ksaj on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:53PM
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The productive programmers I've met, and they are pretty up there, tend to blame it on the documented specs.
Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by craftinator on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:08PM
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I think the hardware engineers ought to be blaming the physicist, keep the blame going up the abstraction ladder. Then the physicists can blame the universe, which was created in a lab by software engineers.
Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by pstuart on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:24PM
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Let's not forget the compilers. They're always messing stuff up!
Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by salawat on Friday January 24, 2020 @07:59PM
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You don't blame the tool. You blame the toolmaker.
Every real toolmaker is gifted with perfect precognitive capabilities so their tool behaves exactly as it should for all users, don'cha'know.
Re:Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
by WalterBright on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:11PM
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Naw. It's always user error.