Posted on 03/14/2010 10:22:49 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
Spel cheque is you’re friend.
“E to the X”, “E to the Y”, and Dx/Dy are caculus expressions. Unfortunately my grad school calc class was 22 years ago so I can’t explain it better than that.
“Tangent, secant, cosign, sign” are 4 of the 6 basic calculations in trigonometry.
“Three point one four one five nine” is 3.14159 - Pi.
RPI is an outstanding engineering school in Upstate New York that used to have a great hockey program. I think they got hit by a Title IX suit some years ago.
I have found SW work to be satisfying. You tell the computer what to do, and it actually does exactly what you told it to do. (Unlike my wife and kids.) Then I go back and tell the computer what I really meant to say. Iterate until the "speech" is perfected, or until I tear my hair out.
I worked on projects with several millions of lines of code. Besides being a mass-of-humanity nightmare that needed to be sorted out, these projects are significant investments.
I am not sure that superlarge SW projects will ever be done again. First is the investment issue. Second, the technology has changed drastically over my career. For instance, internet and related technologies enforce interfaces that make divvy-ing up the work much easier.
What are your thoughts on this?
I can hear my friend Sven pronouncing this word now.
Ya, Dat is heem.
My C-contribution was a small part of a much larger project and mostly a lot of fun. It was a display for an ATC radar. ATC radar don’t really use displays, the display was for maintenance. (The radar sends tracks, plots and weather maps to the ATC center.)
It had an A-Scope and PPI, with analog and digital data. You could see “range vs. video” on the A-Scope or range vs. STC, or one of about 32 tests points available in A-Scope and PPI format. It was really pretty slick. It’s fun to see real aircraft on “your” display in real time.
The Basic was a bunch of stand alone code to run radio frequency factory and depot test equipment for radar hardware. The 40,000 lines were really more like 10,000 independent lines, mostly you just cut and paste from something else. It was fun, though. It actually did something. When a $25,000 receiver pops off the line, your test station gives it thumbs up, or thumbs down.
Fortran was used for analysis and simulation, a lot like the CRU. I was always very conscientious, and have to admit that some people “advanced” by me by taking shortcuts. Their work was junk, but a lot of these analyses were poorly validated and imho, not particularly reliable. I like deliverables and products because the real world is a very harsh validator.
I designed, wrote SW for and managed (also some Prod Mgt) products used in the communication network. I was involved in local systems, long distance services, advanced services, wireless systems and pre-paid solutions. I enjoyed it while it lasted.
LOL -— Keep ‘em coming.
I miss Dubya. Maybe that's why I think Obama in this joke is funnier.
Ping is PI by Ing.
Sorry about not pinging you. I don’t know what’s wrong with me!
Thank you, Daffy, may I see another pi?
Cool pie in the face!
Mmmmmm - green beer!
Enjoy the PI, but beware the IDES.
Me Irish grandfather never drank green beer in his life. I would not be surprised to learn he never drank beer. Irish whiskey, maybe.
I beware the Ides of April even more.
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