Years ago I ran into a dispute with an unreasonable customer who kept adding to the software specification for a thermodynamic design tool I was building.

I ended up putting a huge amount of unpaid time into the project to avoid problems with the ultimate Navy customer. The code was designed to evaluate the thermal behavior of different materials in a planar phased array radar system.

When I finally delivered the beta, I named it the â??Embedded Antenna Thermal Materials Evaluatorâ? or â??EATME.â? Big letters on the splash screen and in the technical and user documentation!

My â??Bossâ? got real polite after that and in the end I finally relented and renamed it the â??Slab Thermal Analysis Model (STAM).


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