One of the differences between an engineer and a senior engineer is knowing when to disobey a direct order, especially if it involves destroying anything.
Engineers and scientists (competent ones, at least) always keep a notebook with *everything* they do. Those notebooks are absolute *gold* when it comes to this sort of problem. You can imagine how they are treated ...
The usual term for this is "reverse engineering". I like the phrase "engineering archaeology".
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Date: 2014-03-20 02:28 am (UTC)One of the differences between an engineer and a senior engineer is knowing when to disobey a direct order, especially if it involves destroying anything.
Engineers and scientists (competent ones, at least) always keep a notebook with *everything* they do. Those notebooks are absolute *gold* when it comes to this sort of problem. You can imagine how they are treated ...
The usual term for this is "reverse engineering". I like the phrase "engineering archaeology".