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I did critical Food & Beverage (and pharmaceutical) inspection software for 9$ / hour.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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#realJSOP wrote: Indian developers who barely know what a f*cking airplane even is, much less that have anything resembling even passing familiarity with avionics
I am not sure whether such sweeping statements can be made.
A small example is that Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore[^] was formed in 1942, much before most of us were born.
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I've been the victim of outsourcing twice, so I claim the right of extreme sarcasm.
To your point, establishing ANYTHING that happened in 1942 as a rebuttal is beyond bullshit, because NO programmer alive today has more extensive subject matter knowledge regarding avionics than an avionics engineer (unless of course that programmer has been an avionics programmer for a long enough period to be able to raise pertinent objections to the specifications).
The whole thing is still Boeing management's fault. The programmers did what they were told to do, the way they were told to do it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Quote: NO programmer alive today has more extensive subject matter knowledge regarding avionics than an avionics engineer
I worked for a large British plane maker (that will remain nameless but you can probably guess) for 7 years. I worked in Flight Test Data Processing working on jet fighters so you would think I know a lot about flight engineering and avionics. I didn't. I worked with a couple (and occasionally more) aviation engineers to develop an expert system to analyse flight tests - however, the engineers specified the formulas, constants and other criteria that I used. I was an aeroplane nut at the time - getting my pilot's licence - but I still didn't know what half the stuff was. I was still able to build the test analysis framework very successfully (it was still in use 17 years after I left the company) so that these engineers could specify want they wanted without any "intelligence or subject knowledge" built into the program at all. It's not always needed to develop an expert system - as long as you have a couple of actual experts guiding you along!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: It's not always needed to develop an expert system - as long as you have a couple of actual experts guiding you along!
And that's xactly his point #2 in the first message
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Funny how, if you squint, it looks a lot like Chrome's logo. 
And for a browser called "Edge", it has no edge, which one usually thinks of as a straight line. 
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Well that's certainly going to make installing Chrome on a new PC harder. 
I'm not sure why MS thinks making their own browser harder to find leaving the system appearing to not have one installed at all is supposed to help anything at all though. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The human brain can recognise a familiar song within 100 to 300 milliseconds, highlighting the deep hold favourite tunes have on our memory, a UCL study finds. Think of how much time top 40 radio stations could save!
Duh duh DUH
duh duh da-DUH
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..and then you need up to 40s to remember the lead-singers name.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It's thought that stars began appearing in the first 100 million years after the Big Bang, and we've seen some really old stars; but the processes that created them from the primordial Universe soup are a big mystery. "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong
Are you implying the universe is just a big experiment?
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Well, it is wrong. 
TTFN - Kent
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Just invent another 'dark' component to fill in the gap, 'dark event' should do the trick I reckon.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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That article has lots wrong with it... but I suspect the science about which it is written is not at fault but rather the journalist/editor.
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In politics, stock markets, space, and the battlefield, tiny software calculation mistakes have had enormous consequences. It's more or less a problem
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A well-rounded article.
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Workfront's annual State of Work report reveals a huge productivity gap. Sorry to interrupt your day with this
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Top domain name registrars NetworkSolutions.com, Register.com and Web.com are asking customers to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion in August 2019 in which customer account information was accessed. Who secures the network security companies?
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So many SB-style responses come to mind, particularly regarding a particular cybersecurity advisor nomination some 2 years and 10 months ago.
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In total, we tracked six security vulnerabilities affecting jQuery across all of its releases to date, four of which are medium severity Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities, one is a medium severity Prototype Pollution vulnerability, and lastly, one is a low Denial of Service vulnerability. Yay for helpful, shared standard libraries!
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Almost 84% of all websites may be using jQuery, most of those are probably not using XSS and are therefore NOT impacted by these vulnerabilities.
This article is a bit like saying, "guns exist so you'll probably get shot". In other words no "real world" statistics to back up the attention-grabbing headline fluff.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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99% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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We’re excited to share an important milestone in the journey, introducing the preview release of Microsoft Q&A - the place to get answers to all your technical questions on Microsoft products and services. For all your questions, like: "Why? Why? Why?"
So much better than their old forums: these ones have tags!
Here's a Q for them to A: "So, are you going to move all the valuable answers over to the new system?"
(Trick question. There weren't that many valuable answers over on the old system.)
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