Post #125,590
11/13/03 9:43:59 PM
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Never again
I'll never EVER, for any reason OTHER than a Mars mission, and ONLY at NASA, work for the government in ANY capacity. I did that gig in the 80s and I detested it.
-drl
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Post #125,596
11/13/03 10:17:26 PM
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Re: Never again
I'll never EVER, for any reason OTHER than a Mars mission, and ONLY at NASA, work for the government in ANY capacity. I did that gig in the 80s and I detested it. Ditto, only not even at NASA or a Mars Mission. Mine was in the 90's. Nightowl >8# "I learned to be the door, instead of the mat!" "illegitimi nil carborundum"
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Post #125,700
11/14/03 2:15:07 PM
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Mine was in the 70's. Do I win?
And I agree with you both.
jb4
"There are two ways for you to have lower Prescription-drug costs. One is you could hire Rush Limbaugh's housekeeper ... or you can elect me President."
John Kerry
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Post #125,701
11/14/03 2:19:19 PM
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Re: Mine was in the 70's. Do I win?
I programmed the graphics for a battlefield simulation. When a red splotch appeared during a demo, the Navy guy asked "what's that red spot?" I blurted out without thinking "the apple of some mother's eye just got turned into hamburger." Icy stare from my supervisor.
-drl
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Post #125,727
11/14/03 4:21:26 PM
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Reminds me of a famous simulator story...
[link|http://www.wtblock.com/resume/code_reuse.htm|http://www.wtblock.c...me/code_reuse.htm]
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #125,732
11/14/03 5:21:50 PM
8/21/07 12:46:02 PM
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There were many similar anecdotes
going around at Smalltalk Solutions from the developers of JWARS (military simulation package written in VisualAge Smalltalk).
[link|http://www.informs-cs.org/wsc01papers/091.PDF|http://www.informs-c...c01papers/091.PDF]
Things like birds refusing to take off until given clearance because the flying code was reused from the airplanes, soldiers being creamed because their vision was 180 degrees misaligned and so forth.
"I believe that many of the systems we build today in Java would be better built in Smalltalk and Gemstone."
-- Martin Fowler, JAOO 2003
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Post #125,733
11/14/03 5:35:44 PM
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too funny!
Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #126,158
11/17/03 5:44:01 PM
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Even as a contractor?
Us Federal Contractors get seen as greedy corporate types by the Pseduo-Socialist Federal Employees, they think we are out to take away their nice cushy jobs. The truth is that if they did their jobs to begin with there wouldn't be a need for Federal Contractors. So many duffers out there when I worked for the Army base on Goodfellow. Always leaving early to play Golf, or reading the Newspaper, or chatting with each other, emailing jokes, etc. Part of my job was to update aviation parts databases and in order to do that I had to navigate a web interface from another base and download the data. It took hours to do so sometimes and it was like an 800 Meg flat-file that needed to be imported into Oracle and Access databases. One Duffer was walking by and reported that I always had a web browser open for hours at a time. Yes I did in order to do my job and download the data. After I left that job for a job at the law firm, that same Duffer got busted for surfing porn on his workstation. Many of them did. I was friends with a manager that worked there and told me what happened. The CID investigated me but found I did nothing wrong. I got insulted that people would do that sort of thing to me, and also the base was moving to Huntsvilla Alabama, so I decided to find a new job.
Sometimes I wonder if I'd still have a job if I stayed on and moved to Huntsville? They tried to replace me, but couldn't find anyone qualified to stay at the job.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #126,160
11/17/03 5:46:59 PM
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PARTICULARLY not as a contractor
-drl
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Post #126,227
11/18/03 12:38:02 AM
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Fun while it lasted
I learned a lot about Oracle and HPUX while I worked there. I even worked with an IBM 4381 mainframe and got data from it into databases.
CID investigation showed everything I did, from accessing the database I should have, to downloading MSAccess updates from Microsoft, to Oracle and IBM knowledge bases, and other computer related web sites. No misuse of the Internet was shown. I think that Duffer guy got investigated himself for wasting the CID's time. :)
I had two computers and the one I was doing the downloading from had the browser open so I could see the status of the download and start it again in case it timed out. I was working on the other one, and monitoring the download on the first at the same time.
Heck I even learned Clipper, not that it is of any use to me now or in the future. :)
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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