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>>885205 (OP)

This is why Musk is winning

Space stuff must be programmed in Forth, it's the law.

this is why we now rely on the russians to take people into space.

>My model centered around creating a an API-driven Node.js enterprise architecture.”

End it all.

On the topic of space, I've recently joined a team at my college designing a space capable satellite. I am going to try and get them to switch the computers that are on board for running experiments to be switched over to running Gentoo.

Estes is using Docker to make sure everything runs smoothly and suppress a versioning 
nightmare. Docker “containerizes” applications so everything they need to run—code, runtime, 
tools, system libraries—live independently and separately from the rest of the system.

node.js and Docker, written in Go, are the latest "progress" from the UNIX weenies. They're workarounds for a broken OS. People want garbage collection so they use node.js. People want applications to work so they use Docker. A good OS wouldn't need either of these UNIX workarounds.

You'll remember unix "gurus" flaming about how evil and
repulsive and wrong file-systems with versions are (about as
wrong and evil as they claimed "shared" libraries to be, as
an example.)

More way retro progress from the avant-garde boys at the
phone company.

Oh, and now you know why your Sun loses your work all the
time -- its that "translucent" filesystem.

welcome to the money burning pile called state space programs

>>885230

The fuck is this buzzword soup supposed to mean?

Instead of caring about Astronaut safety, they did this on the cheap using web developers who had to chose javascript because it was all the knew. It's not like they selected Javascript over Spark/Ada because they had a choice, they're too dumb to explore the other options.

>>885242

>Spark/Ada

Irrelevant meme language

All sarcasm aside, this is actually an incredibly irresponsible decision.

>>885268

Imagine someone in 10 years, mind you is an extremely long time in tech years though an extremely short amount of time in the grand scheme of things, having to look back at all the meme frameworks and libraries people used. He'll probably need to learn 15 different languages and 40 different frameworks.

>>885205 (OP)

At least we know NASA is filling their diversity quotas.

>>885205 (OP)

It should stay there.

>>885297

best post tbh

>>885260

We need a skill testing question to stop posters like you commenting here.

>>885312

But then what would we laugh at?

>>885314

Javascript, niggers, and BSD cucks.

>>885205 (OP)

>NSA uses node.js in spacesuits

woah, misread that for a minute

>>885216

fpbp

>>885205 (OP)

lol someone is going to die

>>885368

Houston, my oxygen level is reading NaN. Troubleshoot please.

I'm I'm reading this correctly, and it is difficult to navigate the minefield of buzzwords, they're just creating a system to store data ABOUT the suits. This project isn't dealing with any sort of realtime system that the astronauts will utilize during missions.

>>885381

*If

>>885234

What's the alternative?

>>885388

competency

>>885381

That's still not a reason to use something as shitty as javascript. All the same crap could be accomplished in COBOL with far less potential issues.

>>885380

"Oxygen level equal 0" means "there's no oxygen".

"Oxygen leven equal NaN" means "no thing such as oxygen exists in this context".

>>885388

>What's the alternative?

HURD

>>885205 (OP)

>Node.js’ asynchronous event loop for I/O operations makes it the perfect solution for a cloud-based database system that sees queries from dozens of users who need data immediately

This is possible (and easy) in many better languages, including Python, Rust and Go.

>…the familiarity across the organization with the programming language

oh so they want to allow Pajeets to do important code. what could possibly go wrong? :^)

>>885234

Which operating system do you use to sen your posts, and do everything else in your life? :^)

>>885205 (OP)

NASA is a bureaucratic hot mess.

Expect nothing, ever.

>>885234

your tears are delicious,

>>885205 (OP)

JavaScript is now the officially the best language. Deal with it /tech.

>>885388

>What's the alternative?

You pick the right language for the job, like Cobol for databases and Ada for space suits. NASA can afford to spend some of that money on programmers who are capable of learning. They spend millions of taxpayer dollars on space suits and billions on launches and then hire JavaScript weenies to "cut costs." These UNIX weenies pick JavaScript because C and C++ are worse. Perl and PHP were created because awk was worse. If your language makes you consider using awk, it really has to suck.

I stumbled across this little item in the current (October
1992) issue of Communication of the ACM:

"BANKS UNDERDRAWN... The banking industry spent over a
billion dollars on technology last year, yet they are not
even close to employing leading-edge tools.  A new survey
... indicates that over 75% of bank computer programs are
still written in Cobol and 84% of banking software is
designed for mainframes, not PCs.  Moreover, 80% of the
software used by banks is over six years old and only 37% of
their locations are networked.  The report reveals most
banks are simply not investigating new advances in computer
applications."  [Communications of the ACM, Vol 35, No 10,
p.9]

A translation:

BANKS CONSERVATIVE... The banking industry spent over a
billion dollars on techology that works, rather than the
latest glitzy play toy.  A new survey ... indicates that
over 75% of bank computer programs are written in a language
appropriate to the task as opposed to trying to force their
models into the latest Object Oriented fad and 84% of
banking software is designed to run on systems that have low
mean time between failures, juggle hundreds of users, handle
huge databases, and push megabytes at high rates, not tiny
little machines that crash with great regularity, are
designed for a single user, if even that, have miniscule
disks, and have bandwidth the approximating that of a
sclerotic soda straw.  Moreover, 80% of the software used by
banks has been fairly well debugged and only 37% of their
locations are open to attack by thirteen year olds with
modems and a lot of time on their hands.  The report reveals
most banks are simply not chasing the latest fad in confuser
science and piddling their money away on recoding working
applications unnecessarily.

>>885555 Bastard

No amount of repeating digits will convince me though.

>>885594

I did it only for giggles. I am always the first one to scream how much js sucks donkey balls.

>>885205 (OP)

>Be in space center

>Update node.js package

>Everything is broken

>Check why on forums

>A prolific user named gaskyk. (General Aesthetic Sky Kingdom) has to remove his stuff because of offsensive username

>Space station and satellites don't respond anymore

>They all come down because thrusters doesn't respond

The end

>>885660

A cis-gendered straight white privileged male falls out of his stolen African technology space station. How is this anything other than a victory for progress? Javascript helps us further the agrarian revolution, viva la javascript!

>>885249

NASA fakes everything so it's not as big of a deal as you'd think.

>>885242

I'm pretty sure they wouldn't use spark or ada. theyd use C like everything else.

There are no clouds in space.

comcast is blocking /. atm

Can we just let this thread die? They're not developing anything for use in space. All they made was a document storage system for NASA to lookup spec sheets for components used in the space suits. That's why it's all webstack crap.

NASA moves dumb tasks like this to the private sector so they don't need to worry about concerns outside their principal domains. They don't care what it is written in, just that it actually works.

Of course this silly company and all the node tards are hyping the fuck out of this story as a success, because they can associate themselves with NASA SPACESUITS and normalfags and lowIQ tech tards will eat it all up.

>>886078

>sandeep shiteye

That's why they don't use an actual language, it's full of Indian devs.

>>886475

>This software is the work of 260 women and men

>not men and women

lol