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kaybe

I still remember this guy:

> I work at NASA creating procedures for spacewalks (EVAs).

> Currently we write these procedures in Microsoft Word.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5585535 (2013)

Hm, I wonder if they changed the system by now?

edit: Seems like there was still work to be done 3 years ago at least..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080941 (2016)

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Nope, we're still using the same system. Wow...the first time I mentioned that here was 2013. Ouch. It's something I've wanted to work on all this time but just haven't been able to fit it in. Some students used it as a group project [1] last semester, though, and another group of students may pick it up this semester...so I'm hopeful.

[1] https://github.com/jamesmontalvo3/spacewalk

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