Oh man, it finally made it. I remember working on the ground telemetry bit for New Horizons about 11 years ago (has it been that long?). The C++ code base was hard to understand, and I'm sure I didn't make it any better as a junior developer.
I worked on the part that said, "Hey, are you still there?", and listened for "Yeah, I'm still alive." That was my small contribution.
It was one of the few groups at APL at that time that was actually using source control. (hurray!) Everyone else was doing something akin to copying file folders on a shared drive. I was even on a code base that had comment annotations of the person that changed the line. I think APL has adopted source control lab-wide now, after some hard lobbying by software devs there.
I worked on the part that said, "Hey, are you still there?", and listened for "Yeah, I'm still alive." That was my small contribution.
It was one of the few groups at APL at that time that was actually using source control. (hurray!) Everyone else was doing something akin to copying file folders on a shared drive. I was even on a code base that had comment annotations of the person that changed the line. I think APL has adopted source control lab-wide now, after some hard lobbying by software devs there.
Ahh, good times.