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Post #125,596 by Nightowl 11/13/03 10:17:26 PM Reply	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" Comment by Nightowl
Post #125,700 by jb4 11/14/03 2:15:07 PM Reply	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
Post #125,701 by deSitter 11/14/03 2:19:19 PM Reply	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
Post #125,727 by ben_tilly 11/14/03 4:21:26 PM Reply	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]
Post #125,732 by tuberculosis 11/14/03 5:21:50 PM 8/21/07 12:46:02 PM Reply	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 Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 12:46:02 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #125,733 by SpiceWare 11/14/03 5:35:44 PM Reply	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

My government considers me a security risk - (tuberculosis) - (16) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:42:27 PM EDT

Never again - (deSitter) - (9) - Nov. 13, 2003, 09:43:59 PM EST

Re: Never again - (Nightowl) - (5) - Nov. 13, 2003, 10:17:26 PM EST

Mine was in the 70's. Do I win? - (jb4) - (4) - Nov. 14, 2003, 02:15:07 PM EST

Re: Mine was in the 70's. Do I win? - (deSitter) - (3) - Nov. 14, 2003, 02:19:19 PM EST

Reminds me of a famous simulator story... - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Nov. 14, 2003, 04:21:26 PM EST

There were many similar anecdotes - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:46:02 PM EDT

too funny! -NT - (SpiceWare) - Nov. 14, 2003, 05:35:44 PM EST

Even as a contractor? - (orion) - (2) - Nov. 17, 2003, 05:44:01 PM EST

PARTICULARLY not as a contractor -NT - (deSitter) - (1) - Nov. 17, 2003, 05:46:59 PM EST

Fun while it lasted - (orion) - Nov. 18, 2003, 12:38:02 AM EST

I'll take it! - (gdaustin) - (5) - Nov. 13, 2003, 11:29:49 PM EST

Only one thing really matters - (deSitter) - (4) - Nov. 13, 2003, 11:46:27 PM EST

Credit - (gdaustin) - (3) - Nov. 14, 2003, 04:47:01 PM EST

Typecasting - (deSitter) - (2) - Nov. 14, 2003, 09:03:49 PM EST

Saw It, Related To It - (gdaustin) - (1) - Nov. 14, 2003, 10:49:22 PM EST

Re: Saw It, Related To It - (deSitter) - Nov. 14, 2003, 11:12:59 PM EST

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