Return-Path: Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.166] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c3) with ESMTP id 820092 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:29:28 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.166; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.71]) by relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C51B358501 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:28:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.166]) by filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.71]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01447-13-99 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:28:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (67-137-85-150.dsl2.cok.tn.frontiernet.net [67.137.85.150]) by relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A328C358029 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <42442E29.5020908@frontiernet.net> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:28:41 -0600 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Bad Day Good Day Non-Rotary References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0512-1, 03/25/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net <... As soon as you start doing something you love for money the love for it starts to wear off. ...> In my case should read: "As soon as you start doing something you love for money the guy with the money starts dictating how, when, where you do it and the love for it starts to wear off. There was a time when I *loved* writing code. Resources (memory, disc space, computing power) were scarce and fast, elegant, maintainable code was valued and rewarded. Now, for the price of one really good programmer, you can line up unix boxes as far as the eye can see. As computers become more powerful, programs seem to become more resource intensive. Glad I'm out of it ... but I'd love to do small scale real-time stuff like Tracy ... Jim S. James Maher wrote: > Ken, > That's what you say now, but once you no longer have to do it for a > living it will seem like much more fun. Remember how much fun you had > writing code before anyone started paying you for it? Many people I > talk to ask me why I don't fly for hire, and the answer is simple. I > don't want to take the fun out of it. As soon as you start doing > something you love for money the love for it starts to wear off. > Jim > > */kenpowell@comcast.net/* wrote: > > snip > I swear that when I retire I will never write another line of code. > > Ken Powell (some Arkies CAN read, write and code) > Bryant, Arkansas > 501-847-4721 > > > -------------- Original message -------------- > Ed, > Welcome to my world. > Well the part about the one line of code not the other > aircraft stuff. > Such is the life of a Software Engineer. > I have always found the best way to improve code is to remove > some. > The more you remove the better it works. :o) > Jim > > */Ed Anderson /* wrote: > > snip > > Turns out I changed ONE line of code this morning before > taking it out and had not bothered to check it on the > laboratory pulse meter. I mean it was a very simple change > {:>). It didn't work on it any better back at home than > it did on the aircraft. But, it was a relief to know it > was a simply code screw up. Eliminated that line of code > and all is back working. > > So what started out to be a bad day (relatively speaking) > ended up pretty nice. > > Ed > > Ed Anderson > Rv-6A N494BW Rotary Powered > Matthews, NC > eanderson@carolina.rr.com >