[ale] sloppy coding in breath tester

[Jim Kinney]

I really tried! Was taking a classes in parallel programming along
with Quantum Mechanics, Classical mechanics, and sadistical mechanics.
Was told I could not continue and keep funding.

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> The best are physics majors.  After all the universe is just one big
>> computer with a lot of fuzzy logic used at all the branch points.
>>
>> So says Greg the physics major.
>
> The best really would be someone with a background in Computer Science
> and Physics...
>
> (so says Geof who has a BS in CS with a minor in Physics...) :)
>
>>
>>
>> On 5/15/09, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>>> Pete Hardie wrote:
>>>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:16, tom <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 15 May 2009, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>>> I only scanned the link, so ...
>>>>>
>>>>> There is another possiblity - the authors were never CS trained at all.
>>>>> I'd guess that many of the people writing code for the breathalyzer were
>>>>> originally engineers or scientists with a dominant background in
>>>>> instrumentation. Coding would have been pickup activity which started
>>>>> taking over their lives like kudzu. Hence sloppy code due to a lack of
>>>>> background.
>>>> This is a strong candidate.  I've seen some truly weird working code from
>>>> EEs who moved into coding with just one FORTRAN class as background.
>>> I must concur.  I've seen some terrible code written by non CS folks.
>>> On the other hand, the worst programmer I've ever worked with graduated
>>> with a BS in CS and was at the top of his class.  Two of the best I've
>>> ever worked with, one graduated with a Management degree, the other
>>> never attended college at all.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>>
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> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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