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Same here Mike - I got lucky my first contract was a six month one on a bank liquidation, which turned out to be the worlds largest (still is) , I managed to get rid of my agent and go direct - it lasted 21 years - got to be some sort of record.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Fo sho, the word "boss" has a total negative connotation to it, that's more akin to master. That only works in Kung Fu movies.
Jeremy Falcon
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Agreed, but to be fair, most people don't realize what it's like to employ people. Once you hire people, with your own money/budget, you tend to have a bit more empathy for employers. Maybe he's a douche, but we don't know. What we do know is the OP has issues.
Jeremy Falcon
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Can't argue with any of that.
*I was going to capitalize and bold the word 'any', but reconsidered. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Absolutely, I agree 100%, there are bad on both sides.
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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He sure does (have issues)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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This!
We're currently replacing an application that mixes application and ERP database tables in a single database.
The ERP has an API, so we want to use that and create our own database so it's completely seperated from the ERP.
Of course, we also have an API we use for our applications.
Now I was on vacation and one employee said to the other "we're going to migrate those ERP tables to the API" and the other employee spent a whole day incorporating the ERP tables into our own API 
When I got back from vacation and I heard that, I had to muffle a scream, as this is a sharp priced fixed price project 
I briefed them about this before my vacation and I left comments in our API code saying "This will be migrated to the ERP API.", but he forgot and didn't read the comments...
Now I, a good "boss", took a mental note "brief even better next time this situation occurs."
A bad boss may have scolded the guy.
But sh*t like this happens, scoldings or no.
When you scold them they'll simply stay quiet next time, be afraid to take initiative, or leave altogether.
That said, I may not always been as nice when stuff like this happened in the past, and I will lose my temper again in the future 
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Less than an hour after the Boeing/ULA rep made the (provably false) statement on live NASA TV that Starliner was riding on top of the most reliable rocket ever built, the launch was scrubbed due to an oxygen valve failure in the 2nd stage.
The slogan used to be "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going". They lost this when they removed engineers from the C-Suite.
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Nothing wrong here.
How many nasa launches were scrubbed because of a sensor glitch ?
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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While I agree that the launch scrub was the right call, the disconnect between the ULA spokesperson's statement about the Atlas V being the most reliable launch system ever, the scrub, and the fact that SpaceX's Falcon 9 now has more successful launches and booster recoveries than Atlas V has launches just screams propaganda.
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obermd wrote: the launch was scrubbed due to an oxygen valve failure in the 2nd stage
A lot more honest then say, Morton Thiokol.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Morton Thiokol told NASA not to launch the Challenger that day. NASA overruled them because President Reagan was visiting.
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Morton Thiokol ultimately approved the launch, against engineers recommendations.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Morton Thiokol only approved the launch after NASA threatened to blacklist them for future contracts.
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Agreed, it's a tough spot for them, nevertheless they bowed to the pressure.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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obermd wrote: They lost this when they removed engineers from the C-Suite.
Entirely correct. Of the three major defense companies I worked for in the past, none still exist. The end was clear once the MBAs and other unqualified suits took over management from the engineers who successfully ran the companies for decades.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Maybe any other rocket would've had at least two oxygen valve failures 
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Perhaps, for the first time in this millennium, FORTRAN comes in the Top 10 TIOBE Index - TIOBE [^]
As a side note, my 'mother-tongue' is FORTRAN, being the first computer language i learnt in 1987.
Hope this news isn't a repeat.
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The joy of fixed column coding.
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Not to forget the now infamous GOTO, which was indeed a saviour in those days.
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Amarnath S wrote: GOTO, which was indeed a saviour in those days
Not in 1987! Maybe it was true in 1967, although we had had Algol since 1960 (or 1958 for early blomers).
In 1968, we had the first major revision of Algol. Pascal arrived in 1970, Modula in 1975, C++ in 1985.
Dijkstra's "Go to statement considered harmful" is dated 1968.
If you considered GOTO 'a saviour' in 1987, you were either badly uninformed or extremely slow in adopting modern programming trends.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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You will pry my gotos from my cold dead hands.
finite automata, FTW
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In 1987, I was in my pre-final year of Mechanical Engineering degree. Computers were new, having been introduced in India in early 80's, and programming was entirely new to me. Getting hands onto a computer was indeed rare, and somehow I got hands on a VAX VMS mainframe system. Compiling, linking, running - were all new. I had just learnt that there's something called as a 'file' - because the only files known were office files. And we were writing 'files' to implement the Newton Raphson method, the Regula Falsi method, etc.
Against this backdrop, GOTO was indeed a saviour, because what it did was indeed magic. And all my files were not more than 70 or 80 lines long, as it was college-level code.
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Nothing wrong with that Richard 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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