How much do you trust your code?
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Chris Maunder wrote: how much trust do you have to, and are willing to, put in your code? Well, I don't trust my code to guide the space shuttle (assuming it was back in service) or a nuclear reactor but I will trust it in the homeloan simulator... John
LOL, Funny you should mention the Shuttle. I don't post much, but laughed out loud when I read this topic. I was changing jobs around 8 years ago and received a call from a head-hunter. After a few go-rounds, I was offered a nice 6fig plus salary working for a gov contractor. At first he would not tell me what I would be working on, but did after I turned down the offer. Seems I would have been working on the next generation of speed brakes for the shuttle. Cool offer and very lucrative, but I had just had a child, new house and could not make the move to another state. :(( Success is measured by ones ability to mask complexity with simplicity.
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I can honestly say that I'd stake your very life on the stability of my code :) Cheers, Tom Archer Inside C#,
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework It's better to listen to others than to speak, because I already know what I'm going to say anyway. - friend of Jörgen SigvardssonYou're a nasty man Mr Archer :) cheers, Chris Maunder
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I just got this in the email: a request to use my grid in a commercial app. "am developing an application for use in scripting professional fireworks displays" I don't trust my grid to show me the correct values in my homeloan simulators let alone trust it around 10 tons of high explosives. I don't even trust me around 10 tons of high explosives (I still have some scars to prove this is a valid fear). So it got me wondering: how much trust do you have to, and are willing to, put in your code? cheers, Chris Maunder
I once worked on a PLC Applications and Control system. The first version was written in Windows 3.1 and the version I was working on was an upgrade to 32 bit windows (NT 4). I was told by someone higher up in the company, that the Windows 3.1 version was being used by one company in Eastern Europe to control a nuclear reactor! :eek: :omg:
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I just got this in the email: a request to use my grid in a commercial app. "am developing an application for use in scripting professional fireworks displays" I don't trust my grid to show me the correct values in my homeloan simulators let alone trust it around 10 tons of high explosives. I don't even trust me around 10 tons of high explosives (I still have some scars to prove this is a valid fear). So it got me wondering: how much trust do you have to, and are willing to, put in your code? cheers, Chris Maunder
There's a good chance you already have (unknowingly) put your life in my codes hands, MWAHAHAHAHAHA - I write safety-critical jet engine control software....be afraid - be VERY afraid :-) Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'
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There's a good chance you already have (unknowingly) put your life in my codes hands, MWAHAHAHAHAHA - I write safety-critical jet engine control software....be afraid - be VERY afraid :-) Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'
I got this reply just as I was about to board a flight from Seattle to Toronto. Thanks. No, really :~ cheers, Chris Maunder
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I got this reply just as I was about to board a flight from Seattle to Toronto. Thanks. No, really :~ cheers, Chris Maunder
Oh, I wouldn't worry about it too much - it's not like we use VB or anything... Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'