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Civil engineers aren't asked to design a small 2-story building that can be retrofitted as a 300-story skyscraper when the time comes. Or connect two buildings

• maxxxxx 7y ago
  Exactly. I could make my stuff super rock solid if I could focus on that for the next few years. I am sure we can improve but the main reason for failing software is the speed we are developing at. And the fact that organizational learning gets prevented by constantly hiring “fresh” people who have no knowledge of the work that was done previously.
• dpc_pw 7y ago
  Design: "A bridge that can deploy itself on any river, in any city, any climate, safe in any whether, handle any vehicle (even ones designed after the bridge was deployed), with guaranteed time to cross (99th percentile under 5s), and regularly replace itself with newer version (while people are using it). It also has to be nuclear-attack resistant, and prevent 99% suicides. All built from readily available, standard components. On $100k budget, in 3 months."
• airbreather 7y ago
  Or make all the windows suddenly round, two days before the tenants move in...