Due to some oddball United Airlines flights I took in the mid 90’s, I somehow ended up with an offer to transform "unused miles" into about a dozen free magazine subscriptions. That is how I ended up subscribing to Scientific American magazine.
Kao softvera / savjetovanje osoba, we encounter many difficult business requirements in our career. Most the time, volimo ispunjava ove zahtjeve i zapravo, it’s probably why we think this career is the best in the world. I occasionally wonder just what in the world would I have done with myself if I had been born at any other time in history. How terrible would it be to miss out on the kinds of work I get to do now, u ovo vrijeme i mjesto u svjetskoj povijesti? Mislim: prilično strašno.
Tijekom godina, some of the requirements I’ve faced have been extremely challenging to meet. Complex SharePoint stuff, izrada web obrada okviri temelje na ne-web-friendly tehnologiju, complex BizTalk orchestrations and the like. We can all (nadajmo se) izgleda ponosno vratiti na naše karijere i reći, "yeah, to je teško pitanje za rješavanje, ali na kraju sam pwned da sumbitch!" Better yet, još zanimljivih i zabavnih izazovi čekaju.
Ja osobno mislim da je moj životopis, u tom pogledu, je prilično duboko, a ja sam prilično ponosan na nju (iako znam da moja žena nikada neće shvatiti 1/20th od njega). But this week, Čitao sam članak o Large Hadron Collider in my Scientific American magazine and had one of those rare humbling moments where I realized that despite my "giant" status u nekim krugovima ili koliko duboko mislim da mi je dobro iskustvo, there are real giants in completely different worlds.
The people on the LHC team have some really thorny issues to manage. Consider the Moon. I don’t really think much about the Moon (iako sam bio vrlo sumnjičav o tome jer sam saznao da je usporavanje Zemljine rotacije, koji ne može biti dobra stvar za nas ljude u dugom roku). Ali, the LHC team does have to worry. LHC’s measuring devices are so sensitive that they are affected by the Moon’s (Zemlje-rotacije usporavanje-a-vremenom-ubijanje-sve-život) gravity. That’s a heck of a requirement to meet — proizvesti ispravne mjerenja unatoč Mjesečeve smetnji.
Razmisljao sam taj problem kad sam pročitao ovu rečenicu: "The first level will receive and analyze data from only a subset of all the detector’s components, from which it can pick out promising events based on isolated factors such as whether an energetic muon was spotted flying out at a large angle from the beam axis." Really … ? I don’t play in that kind of sandbox and never will.
Sljedeći put sam se s nekim prijateljima, Ja ću podići zdravicu s dobrim ljudima koji rade na LHC-u, hope they don’t successfully weigh the Higgs boson particle and curse the Moon. I suggest you do the same. Bit će to pravi tost 🙂
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