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february 23, 2004
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February 23, 2004
Alanis at NASA?
I've seen this EE Times article linked to from a few places. It's a more detailed discussion of the bugs affecting the Mars Spirit Rover. My favorite bit, though is this:
"The irony of it was that the operating system was doing exactly what we'd told it to do," Klemm lamented."Irony"????
Man...when things I write for Goats do exactly what I tell them to do, but that's not what they're supposed to do, I call that a "bug". If I'd only known I was being ironic, and not just a shoddy programmer, I could have saved huge amounts of time over the years ignoring the little ironies of the site instead of fixing the bugs.