February 06, 2004

I know Donnie's Secret! I know Donnie's secret!

This is why Donnie had to go to Airborne School so late. This is why Donnie is a Ranger. This is why Donnie is constantly engaging in juvenile behavior (of which I heartily approve).

He's a GEEK! A real live, bona-fide, peering-at-the-source-code Geek!

Proof? From Donnie's comment on Jack's site:

Bwa-HAH!

As a coder, Jack, I approve mightily of this post.

Need any K&R "C" on UNIX platforms, or C#.NET on WIN platforms? How about Fortran 77 on a VAX/VMS box with a Gould Image Processing device? ADA on an OSF/1 box? LISP on a Gentoo Linux distro? yacc on a Motorola 88K chipset machine? lexx or awk on a Data General AvIIon workstation?

Call the Bejus Pundit.

Donnie - if you only knew how many years I battled the geeks to get Janus out of the FORTRAN/VMS world to get that damn spaghetti code into the late 20th Century... (for the record, I actually like VMS)

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Comments on I know Donnie's Secret! I know Donnie's secret!
rammer briefed on February 6, 2004 10:17 PM

Oooh, Janus, bad word, bad word, bad word. Imprecise human interface.

CASTFOREM, mmm, totally not human.

John of Argghhh! briefed on February 7, 2004 11:01 AM

Yer barkin' up the wrong tree here, fella. I *like* HITL sims. The most boring and frustrating 6 months of my life was as a VIC gamer.

Sounds to me like if we aren't working for the same employer - we were/are in the same business now... because I find myself peering into the guts of VIC trying to figure out why the bleeding hell it did THAT stupid thing and bollix up the run. At least now I'm doing it from the analysts side, and don't have to peer into the code, or, *shudder* the TDRs!

Besides - we know it's all BS and that it's sausage, enjoy the taste, but don't ask what's in it. It's just a good thing that most of the time, the variables normalize!

rammer briefed on February 8, 2004 11:12 AM

been there, did that, got the t-shirt. don't believe anything the model tells you until someone explains how the fi was set up. keep in touch.

John of Argghhh! briefed on February 8, 2004 12:23 PM

I'm in charge of the sensitivity runs for the new study - and AMSAA just dumped new data (late, as ever) on us. So now we're in hold until the new FL gets built - then we'll find out how good those target-pairing data are... and start again.

At least this gives us the chance to relook the red TDR's because the red units were not behaving in anything approaching a rational fashion.