Comments | the_same_andrew: A whole constellation on the cortex

the_same_andrew

A whole constellation on the cortex

Dec 22, 2011 19:02

I think I'm getting the hang of making the LabVIEW talk to the cRIO, and making the cRIO talk to everything else. So now I can run an anesthesia machine on cheap compressed air (you have to ask them for "breathing air" if you want tanks of it delivered) rather than the expensive fractionally-distilled stuff that you normally get for hospital ( Read more... )

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absconding with a turn of phrase from james joyce buhrger December 23 2011, 03:59:30 UTC

I may be a fat white guy with a beard, but I'll never be a real programmer.
fat: check
white: check
guy: check
beard: check
i think i have a future as a real programmer behind me.

Welding, programming, cooking the_same_andrew December 23 2011, 13:52:59 UTC

In the subject line, I name three domains of human activity in which I possess some skills and, so far, also possess adequate appreciation of the limits of those skills...

dunning-kruger buhrger December 23 2011, 14:23:27 UTC

possessing some skill may in fact be a prerequisite for appreciating one's limits with respect to that skill....

Is LabVIEW really a programming language... handslive December 23 2011, 14:27:15 UTC

The Wikipedia article doesn't question whether it's a programming language. It simply notes that it's not specified by a third-party standards body. Javascript wasn't originally standardized either, so that's no barrier for entry.

And most of the grey-beards I know at work aren't programmers either; they're system administrators, who generally look down on programmers as serious annoyances that mess up well behaved systems and cause downtime.

SysAdmins and LabVIEW the_same_andrew December 24 2011, 17:44:02 UTC

I invited the network guy for the EGH to come down and lookit what we do in the Sim Centre, and discuss what I could do, and what I shouldn't do, with respect to the instrumentation stuff I'm trying to do.

He looked at it from all angles, and started many sentences with "Yeah, as long as you don't..." and finshed them with "...it should be fine."

And then he finished the visit with, "Just call me if you're worried about any of it."

So this is more evidence that I'm not a real programmer, because he didn't seem pissed off at all.

buhrger December 24 2011, 18:26:46 UTC

not pissing off the support staff is generally a good thing :-)