Don't look at me, I swear it was just a simple change in the return type of
a function---they should have used a parametric type definition. Another
$1billion down the drain...

Best,
--Tim

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Michele Zaffalon <
michele.zaffa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Tim Holy: I had hoped you learnt to be more careful with untested
> versions. See what happened this time around: https://www.theguardian.com/
> science/2016/oct/20/bad-day-for-space-probes-one-lost-on-
> mars-another-in-safe-mode-at-jupiter?
>
> On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 5:27:52 PM UTC+2, Tim Holy wrote:
>>
>> "Sorry, sir, but our Mars probe crashed. It's a complete loss."
>>
>> "Oh no! Why?"
>>
>> "Well, just before it was about to dock, Tim Holy tagged a new version of
>> Images. Turns out it had a bug in it that prevented the cameras from
>> saving
>> images to disk. So we were flying blind. We tried rolling back to an
>> earlier
>> version, but recent changes to Pkg meant that `pin` wasn't working
>> either. So
>> we hit the planet."
>>
>> "Next time, don't run master."
>>
>> --Tim
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 08:12:35 AM John Myles White wrote:
>> > Not that I’m aware of. I’d say the thread is probably off-topic.
>> >
>> >  — John
>> >
>> > On Sep 24, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Stefan Karpinski <ste...@karpinski.org>
>> wrote:
>> > > Is there any evidence that Julia was used to accomplish that?
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:05 AM, John Myles White
>> > > <johnmyl...@gmail.com> wrote: I think this is the flight to Mars
>> that
>> > > India just finsihed.
>> > >
>> > >  — John
>> > >
>> > > On Sep 24, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Stefan Karpinski <ste...@karpinski.org>
>> wrote:
>> > >> I have no idea what this is about. Can you clarify?
>> > >>
>> > >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 3:47 AM, K Leo <cnbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> for the wonderful achievement with Mangalyaan!
>> > >>
>> > >> With a budget less than a Hollywood movie, I bet they must have
>> largely
>> > >> used (and supported?) open sources - Julia included?
>>
>>

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