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Frank Muir and Denis Norden must have inspired Leslie. My Word, BBC Radio, probably pre-1970.
Yes, I'm getting ancient. Not quite fossilized yet...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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We are good for something eh?
Good article.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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We are indeed. Thanks, Mike!
Software Zen: delete this;
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yes we are 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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While not dead (yet) I took great pleasure in getting out of their way. Gat a call from my last employer asking for some additional work/time. Told him I would put a LARGE dent in his budget, ahh peace and quiet, I love it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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And by doing that, they also got some old friends of mine out of involuntary retirement:
Quote: Additionally, some of the science instruments and components had their own embedded microprocessor-based control systems. The MATs (Multiple Access Transponder) components, MAT-1 and MAT-2, utilize Hughes Aircraft CDP1802CD microprocessors.[43] The Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) also utilized an RCA 1802 microprocessor (or possibly the older 1801 version).[44] The WFPC-1 was replaced by the WFPC-2 during Servicing Mission 1 in 1993, which was then replaced by the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) during Servicing Mission 4 in 2009.
These were the noble versions, by the way. White ceramic packages, gold plated pins, maybe even radiation hardened: (look)[^]
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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Not only the old farts...
Old products too.
Today with the "planed obsolescence" many products just suck and have almost no life cycle.
I am not that old and I already have had to say "things are not built as before" in many times.
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Can't say I've read the article, but if NASA engineers can't work out Widget XYZ...then Widget XYZ was poorly documented. I can't imagine NASA not having enough red tape already. So how does this happen?
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Given that the project was developed over 30 years ago, the developers who knew it and the whys and wherefores are either retired or dead. Chances are pretty good they don't even know the programming language used. It's not a case of the project being poorly documented. It's a case of bringing back the original engineers is a more effective way of making a change than trying to train up current staff to do it.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Pretty much what I thought.
But given NASA's budget, and the way they do things...I'm left scratching my head as to what they'll do when the original engineers simply are no longer there...
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Do old farts smell different than new farts? Just wondering.
Being an old fart myself, my wife tells me I stink all of the time. My three 19 year old girlfriends do like it, though. 
Repo Man
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... but I just can't get the DNA sequencing right ... 
"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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I thought sheep had a fairly well documentet DNA sequence??? 
[EDIT] Eerily enough, THIS[^] just showed up in my Facebook feed...  [/EDIT]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
modified 31-Jul-21 5:32am.
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Oh god, not that! The farcebook login screen! That's devious! I can already feel the IQ drop that comes after registering there. Never!
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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if you *try* to make friends then don't forget to *catch* to handle exception gracefully
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Awesome 
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have my Mother's legs, and my Father's nose. They're both in the freezer.
Repo Man
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Tell them that if they come to interview
..ehr, I like VB6 and we once "almost" migrated a large VB6 project to .NET in chunks. Large project can't be rewritten all at once. But with the tools from MS, we could do it a module at a time. Meaning, no large rewrite, just an update now and then.
"Almost", because my manager insisted on doing a rewrite and killed the company. I had a working prototype that used VB6 and VB.NET, with parts of the flagship in VB6 and simple modules in VB.NET.
Hard part; there's no juniors with VB6, and there's an ocean between us. I could start in 2 months, and hard to micromanage someone who is an ocean away. I can afford one visit, but that's all my savings.
Still, feels like I could be of help. Find a junior that talks VB.NET; I can help with the rest. It'd be remote, ofcourse.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The thing you lack is "thermal wrappings". I seen it in the movies, so must be right.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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*ahem* KHAAANNN!
Software Zen: delete this;
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That makes me think of the movie 'Blade Runner' where J.F. Sebastian says, "they're my friends. I made them."
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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