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Documentation Is Important For Scientific Progress
Astronomy Engineering Tech Research
5 days ago 4.4K views 0 shares
Documentation Is Important For Scientific Progress
The ultimate legacy code success story! NASA engineers managed to resurrect communication with Voyager 1—a spacecraft launched in 1977 and now cruising 25 billion kilometers into the void—using documentation written by engineers who are probably enjoying retirement by now. Imagine debugging a system that's older than most programming languages while it's literally traveling through interstellar space! That's like finding your grandpa's handwritten recipe and successfully baking a cake with ingredients from another galaxy. The fact that those blue-shirted mission control folks are celebrating instead of sobbing in a corner is the real scientific miracle here.

Documentation Is Important For Scientific Progress
Astronomy Engineering Tech Science
3 months ago 8.1K views 0 shares
Documentation Is Important For Scientific Progress
Imagine writing code in the 70s, never expecting it would still be running 50+ years later on a spacecraft that's literally left the solar system. Those NASA engineers are celebrating because their documentation was so good they could decipher their own ancient hieroglyphics. Meanwhile, I can't understand code I wrote last week without comments. The ultimate legacy code maintenance success story—turns out commenting your code might actually be useful when your project is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 mph.

If It Ain't Broke, It Runs
Tech Engineering
3 months ago 7.7K views 0 shares
If It Ain't Broke, It Runs
The eternal battle between clean code purists and pragmatic developers captured in cinematic glory! The British naval officer (representing senior developers or code reviewers) looks down his powdered nose at the pirate's spaghetti code monstrosity. Meanwhile, Captain Jack Sparrow embodies every developer who's ever cobbled together a hacky solution that somehow works in production. This is basically the software development equivalent of duct-taping equipment together in a lab. Sure, it violates every best practice in the book, but if your janky Python script successfully processes those terabytes of research data... who's really winning? The elegant solution that doesn't exist yet, or the ugly one keeping your servers running?