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But you don't quit in April, you are working on the next February release. So you don't have a deadline, you have a checkpoint.


Sort of. I go on the next project, but we let some contractors go at the end of the project. Ultimately I'm putting a computer on machines that were common in 1890: there isn't much innovation to add that previous engineers couldn't think of. We can get larger than past generations, a little more accurate and reliable: but in the end the designs from 1890 weren't that much worse that today's.




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