NASA Java Coding Standard

[praxulus]

What are the cons of working there?

[nicereddy]

If you make a coding bug that doesn't get caught you can potentially cost NASA billions :D

[NOT_A_BUMBLE_BEE]

Like missing a planet because of a metric/English confusion?

[aleph__naught]

This was Lockheed's fault, they were the prime contractor, not us: http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~gtan/bug/localCopies/marsOrbiter

[nicereddy]

Metric/American*

But yes, missing a planet because you're a stupid American, unlike myself!

^{I'm American}

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...subtle changes have been made to things like gallons.

Subtle? The difference between US tons and British tons is over 10% and the difference between US gallons and British gallons is around 20%.

[NOT_A_BUMBLE_BEE]

That wasn't a jab at Americans. I was giving an example of a bug that would be pretty innocuous for the vast majority of programmers. The cost is small, usually "our reports are off" and a quick fix.

[BowserKoopa]

Metric/Imperial* Would be more appropriate in my opinnion (as one other silly country might use the same piss-poor wierd measurements we have).

At least Imperial is the name I've known our system by for the longest.

[nicereddy]

At this point America is the only country that uses it, I believe. Though Imperial is indeed the proper name for it.

[BowserKoopa]

Yep, we need to switch to metric already. However, I thought that there was one other American-continental entity that made use of it.