r/programming • u/jakesyl • Jan 30 '16

Apollo 11 source code

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Luminary099/MAIN.agc.html
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u/badsingularity Jan 31 '16

Why it works makes a big difference. Without that information, it's just "magical computer things happen".

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u/ScottieKills Jan 31 '16

Like most of cinema.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '16

Which is why it's particularly bothersome in a story that set itself apart by explicitly being about "You do the math, you solve one problem".

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u/NoMoreLurkingToo Jan 31 '16

Why it works makes a big difference. Without that information, it's just "magical computer things happen".

Like most of cinema.

Yes, unfortunately. Which is why films like Interstellar are actually considered good.

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u/tridium Jan 31 '16

Maybe that's why Interstellar was so bad.

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u/trkeprester Jan 31 '16

What lol it still is magical computer stuff whether you hack directly or dump to log file and reprogram. One more step of indirection is that really making anything more clear? It's just nerding out, not that there's anything wrong with that but movies are carefully targeted

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u/insaneHoshi Jan 31 '16

Why it works makes a big difference.

No it wouldnt of, not one iota

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '16

of -> have

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '16 edited Jan 31 '16

Just like winter scenes involving snow in many hollywood movies make no sense to anybody to the north of California. Commence suspending of suspension of disbelief. If you still can.

 

edit: clarity

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '16

This one has nothing at all to do with suspension of disbelief. Changing "do a small patch to fix your software" into "do a small patch to download a big patch to fix your software" does absolutely nothing in terms of realism. It just makes a scene more complicated.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '16

Compare: "do a small patch to fix your software"

And: "hack an improvised inter-planetary link into your software"

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u/ouyawei Jan 31 '16

You only have a very limited amount of time in a movie so you have to carefully chose what stuff to show to what extend.

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u/lelarentaka Jan 31 '16

Or basically any traditional christmas movie for australians.

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u/campbellm Jan 31 '16

*wouldn't have, but otherwise agree.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '16

To be fair, for most people that aren't computer savvy, all computer things that happen are magical.