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Probably won't run Doom, though 
Keep Calm and Carry On
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My first thought - will it run Doom?
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Adobe Creative Cloud might have finally met its match.
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In other news: Adobe has let a number of engineers go. They where responsible for optimizing the performance and resource utilization in Adobe Creative Cloud products.
"It was a tough call to make" the CEO of Adobe said. He continues: "In the end we can't have customers thinking we are not using every last bit of hardware they have purchased to run our products. To demonstrate how we appreciate all our staff, we will allocate a part of the kickback we get from NVIDIA to pay an additional week salary as a severance package to the engineers we had to let go."
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Still won't be able to run GTA at Ultra details...
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Now this is just a guess, but I suspect the price is in the "if you have to ask ..." category.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just wait a month or two and it will already be on its way to the clearance bin.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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This is the way.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Uhm... For the empire!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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With my retirement later this year, I've been thinking about the most meaningful projects I've worked on.
Top of my list is the work I did for the 1984 Olympic games held in Los Angeles. I was working on the operating system of the IBM S/38 back then. IBM was a corporate sponsor of the Olympics. My task was to make some modifications to the operating system so we could print a special bar code that we were not making generally available. This was printed (by a dot-matrix printer) onto the employee and athlete badges. The badge had a dark red square where the black bar code was printed -- so even though it was machine readable it was not easy to read with one's eyes.
I felt a lot of responsibility as a 25 year old. Of course the application worked well and there were no security problems. It's a special memory.
Best wishes everyone - Craig
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Just noting you can volunteer which I believe includes applying your expertise in computers.
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I may have posted about this before, I should check.
Waaayyy... back when I was in college (circa 1990), working on my BSCS, I had a co-op job.
There was a Nice Young Lady there who caught my eye... she kept printing (dot-matrix, fanfold) long lists of numbers. List after list after list... The printers were just outside my office.
Eventually, I went to ask her what she was doing.
First, she had to validate the numbers and correct any errors. Then she had to transcribe them into a report. The reports went to a state agency.
Once the process was explained to me I said, "I can write a program to produce the report, then all you have to do is validate the report" (it was a one-page report) -- it would not only be legible, but it would save paper and printer ribbon at least. If I recall correctly, I also wrote something to detect and report any obvious referential integrity issues in the database -- don't get me started.
And so, after discussing it with my boss, I did just that.
Thereafter, a simple command (this was OpenVMS) would spit a report out of the printer and she would review it and fix any obvious data errors (e.g. columns with values greater than 100%).
The company has since gone out of business.
Why is this project meaningful? Because the Nice Young Lady and I have been married since 1992. 
I don't think any of the other projects I have worked on have really had an impact on the world at large.
Edit:
Re: Programming Paid Off [^]
Re: Top 10 Pick-up Lines the Code Project Ladies Are Sick of Hearing[^]
modified 1-Jun-23 14:35pm.
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My story is not as good. In fact, it didn't have a happy ending.
In the early nineties, before I incorporated, I got a gig to create a payroll system for a national fitness company. The payroll system was just for the professional trainers, who had a complex method for determining how they would be paid. For the sake of argument, this was bonus pay. There was a one-person department that did all this processing. As the company expanded, it was taking this one person nearly the full month to process the payments for the Personal Trainers. The company was worried that they soon wouldn't be able to make payments in time, so I was hired to analyze the process and build a solution.
The computer program that I developed solved the problem, reducing the process from weeks to days (data entry was now the most consuming part of the process). Everyone was happy, except when they decided to lay off the person who originally did the process. Yes, it was sad, but that wasn't my call. This was the last gig I did for the fitness company before I moved on to another gig. Maybe not a good ending, but it was a big accomplishment.
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LucidDev wrote:
There was a one-person department that did all this processing. As the company expanded, it was taking this one person nearly the full month to process the payments for the Personal Trainers.
Reminds me of a major company I used to work for. When they had trouble, they hired a management consultant who talk to the employees, then wrote a report detailing what we told them. Their conclusion?
Due to interruptions for special management reports, We were kept busy for 15 months producing the annual budget and had no time to do productive/profitable work.
Not sadthat I left there.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I don't have a publicly meaningful project, but there is one that's special to me called Trace Viewer. It's a Windows app that connects via TCP/IP to one or more servers embedded in our product software. We build commercial ink-jet systems, so several computers running multiple processes each. TV captures messages from the servers and records them to one or more files. Trace Viewer has become indispensable for developing these complex multiprocessor, heavily multithreaded applications.
Trace Viewer's been under development and maintenance since I started it in 2000. When my normal work tasks aren't providing satisfaction, I'll spend time tinkering with it. I've learned a lot, especially Windows UI in the process. Let me put it this way: CListCtrl (actually, CListView) is my bitch.
I'm rather proud of it.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Back in late 80's I created a system used when maintaining Concorde. It measured the loads on jacking points whilst the plane was under maintenance, took the information from a "black box" converter and used it to update a graphical display of the plane. There was a monster siren attached to the trolley to be sounded if any load exceeded a predefined maximum. All on the latest IBM PS2 using Turbo Basic. AFAIK it remained in place until Concorde was retired.
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Very cool! Did the siren ever sound off (outside of test environment)?
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Ha! There's a funny story related to that but it can't be told in a public forum 
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Congrats. I'm retiring this year too. I've built a lot of the software my company uses internally, but the most meaningful project was building my first acoustic guitar, for me. More will be built in retirement.
Best wishes on your next adventure.
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A couple come to mind. A pro-bono project for Black Mothers Breast Feeding Association in Detroit MI -- it was a website to schedule educational meetings and participants would surveys, the survey results were used to apply for grants and federal funding.
The other project performed failure analysis on complex switch rings on communication satellites, to determine what, if any, "switch" configurations could be directed to spare TWTA's (Travelling Wave Tube Amplifiers) when a main TWTA failed. These switch rings are so complicated it's impossible for a human to figure out (and this was before the days of AI, hahaha.) What was cool about this project was that I achieved something not even the PhD's could figure out. So, overall, the communication satellite's lifetime in orbit was extended as a result of my analysis software which led to better switch ring designs.
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I love hearing about the 80's and 90's projects. All us retirees can relate. Developing software to support the Olympics had to be really satisfying. One of my most meaningful (satisfying) projects was an Ethernet interface (hardware and software) for Gould mini computers in the 80's. Ethernet was around, but by no means mainstream. We used this custom hardware for communication between mini computers running flight simulators for what is now the Air Force Research Labs (AFRL). This hardware and software was optimized for low latency. I provide the users with three routines. EtherInit, EtherOut and EtherIn. No TCP stacks here. Way too much fun.
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At one place I worked, we had three mainframes; but none were connected. One mainframe usually kept everyone on shift because of all the printing. I modified the print spooler (IBM 370) to generate a "print spool file" (on tape) that could be used to print on the other mainframes. The operators were all happy because they finished early; management frowned because I didn't "ask them" first. So, meaningful in the sense it helped someone and I could also see the results (which isn't always easy to quantify).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I have a similar story like Gary's. In the very early 70's, I was hired at a manufacturing company as a computer operator/programmer. It was my first full time job. We had an IBM Model 25, which was based on IBM 370 technology, tape drives, disk drives, card readers, etc. Daily reports were produced that took a great deal of time to process because thousands of punch cards had be be sorted in an IBM sorter. Sometimes, I would drop a stack of cards and would have to start over. The same stack of cards had to be re-sorted to produce a different report.
I was assigned the task of creating a "Utility Program" (Program number 11108, if I recall). I got to spend more time programming and they hired another split-shift operator. My boss was upset that I took so much time writing the program. When It was completed, we used it to process the jobs that took multiple hours to produce using sorted cards. Now, the process only took minutes. The new operator was very pleased, but my boss commented: "Are you trying to put people out of work?
You can never win!
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The most meaningful was one of the easiest in my career, it was to program a prototype for a company developing a way to clean up water turbines used for hydro-generators for electricity plants.
The ones I am most proud of are three. My first one, where I did a customer so happy that he rented me for a second project to repeat what I did in the first machine to another two and payed even a bunch extra (from which I didn't see a cent  ).
The second one was a project where the PL of my direct customer blamed on me and complained to my boss telling a lot of crap, and then when I finished, the OEM End customer of the project forced him to apologize to me and asked him to rent me again to do the changes of the next two stations of the line.
The third one was the biggest of my career so far, I had multiple roles in that project (PL, Chief in the field, Senior PLC dev, only Robotic programer, training newbies...) at the beginning I was blamed by my boss because I used so much time to get the offer done (clarifying the specs with the customer) once finished I had a 1.7 million € superavit due to my concrete specs (all what was not described, was payed extra as not part of the contract). This time I got a bonus for that in my yearly revision, a one time 500€ payment. I started looking for something else that same day.
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
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