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I've seen just the first episode but the skeptical me thinks that the metaphors instead of "help advanced scientist deal with their nervous breakdown when settled theories and experiments that had been done hundreds of times all over the world suddenly started producing random results" they rather help not so advanced script writers/producers deal with the hypothesis of the "capricious God" . There is a good chance that any scientist worth his salt, and even more so "advanced scientists", has considered the idea of the Simulation hypothesis[^].
The discussion here would be too long and would probably run afoul of lounge rules. Besides, as I've said, I've seen only the first episode and I am probably prejudging.
Mircea
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Yes, keep watching.
As I said before this version cuts out the Turkeys and Sharpshooter discussion entirely. (I watched the Chinese version that covered the same ground in 43 episodes (25 min each)). In that version several episodes were dedicated to the mysterious Frontiers of Science organization and the Turkeys and Sharpshooter stories. I started reading the first book but stopped in the brutal Chinese Cultural revolution and did not pick it up again. It was not until the Chinese version (with subtitles) that I was exposed to the rest of the first book.
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Amazon Prime also has "Three-Body" which is a chinese(?) version which runs to 30 hours.
Not sure how either corresponds to the original book even though I read it. There are 4 books in the series.
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Where do the books end in the 400 year timeline?
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Hi All,
How does your company handle documentation of code? I can see the point once it's nailed down, a couple of pages it does this helps (algorithm, inputs & outputs), however this place doesn't do Software or Electronics (they have started to!) they have this thing of process flow charts. While this is possible with some simpler rigs (mostly embedded) with Windows code the shear size of a DLL prevents a flow chart for it. So what is a better way, I have come across Jackson diagrams which I did back at college when Pascal was the thing. They seem to muddy the water... any suggestions any one?
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glennPattonWork3 wrote: How does your company handle documentation of code?
hahahahah deep breath ... hahahahahah
Our code base is ancient; most of the base documentation was written decades ago (yes, decade)
We have word documents for each module describing what it does, business model and a description of the UI/UX and the database tables and the error messages; the word documents are in source control.
The code itself is , err, well, documented.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Quote: Our code base is ancient; most of the base documentation was written decades ago (yes, decade)
I laugh at you calling a decade ancient. My program is 3 decades old and still actively coded (though not for too much longer). The last good documentation was written 15 years ago.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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i said decadeS ...
Oldest comment in the code is from 1994.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I've got...
Quote: * ommgr1.cob 11 Apr 1992, 13:41
going once, going twice. Anyone got an older date?
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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yep... since we're having a measuring contest I go back to 1984.
You would be AMAZED at how much old code is lurking out there.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: You would be AMAZED at how much old code is lurking out there.
Yeah, and everything still compile with the latest compilers. (with some minor updates).
In my previous job, we also had files from the 80s (fortran maths stuff converted to C ).
( I can't check them, obviously),
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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We use Sandcastle Help File Builder to generate documentation from the XML comments in our C# code.
If you use other languages Doxygen maybe an option.
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Useful if the comments keep up with code changes, but too often I have seen code changed and the comments left untouched, even ignored in code reviews. Result is worse than no comments at all!
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True, it takes some discipline to update the comments which is something some developers seem to lack ...
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