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The mechanical and software engineering underlying these research endeavors is breathtaking. The laser apparatus, LISA pathfinder, ELISA - how on earth do they

The mechanical and software engineering underlying these research endeavors is breathtaking. The laser apparatus, LISA pathfinder, ELISA - how on earth do they calibrate/debug/test such complex systems? ... and I shudder to think that more often than not, anything I code in C/C++ will segfault on first run.

iDemonix 11y ago
As someone who has spent the day trying to get a web app to run, wrestling with Perl dependencies, I feel the same.
pif 11y ago
Don't worry, their code segfaulted umpteen times, too :-)