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astroengine

on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @03:30AM

astroengine writes: "So it turns out U.S. radars weren't to blame for the unfortunate demise of Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars sample return mission — it was a computer programming error that doomed the probe, a government board investigating the accident has determined."

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Professionnal Programmer Available (Score:2)

by da5idnetlimit.com ( 410908 ) writes:

Hello

Due to a personnal matter I recently relocated in Oymyakon, Sakha Republic, Russia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakon) and would like to offer my services as a programmer

Of my many qualities I would mention a strong, renewed passion for code quality and testing.

Some nights I shiver, alone, remembering that fatefull commit ...buro

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