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Comment Re:Paywall (Score 1) 154

We traded a significant fraction of the power in North America, Western Europe and Australia on an Access database that shelled to a FORTRAN simulation engine for forecasts...

Top that horror story.

To web enable it. I showed them how to call 'new Access.application("shitstorm.mdb")' from ASP. I will go to hell for that.

I guess I just topped my own horror story.

Comment Re:Paywall (Score 1) 154

There are architects that draw pretty pictures of un-buildable things. They suck.

But some are actually trained and skillful. Didn't come from a pure art background.

The old joke is: 'A building designed by and Architect might fall down, but a building designed by an Engineer should be torn down.'

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