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>> Somehow we got to the Moon. But now companies are so bloated that even doing nothing requires 30,000 employees. The Apollo program had 400,000 people involv
by bluedino 7y ago
>> Somehow we got to the Moon. But now companies are so bloated that even doing nothing requires 30,000 employees.
The Apollo program had 400,000 people involved at it's peak.
- coldtea 7y agoWhich is neither here, nor there. The programmers for the Apollo software (which is what we're discussing), were at their peak, around 350 [1]. And most of those roles were secondary and only needed because of the primitive tooling and utmost reliability requirements that modern software doesn't suffer from... [1] David G. Hoag, 1976 - http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1711.pdf http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1711.pdf
- papln 7y agoApollo software is pretty simple, relatively speaking. It was a hard, but small problem compared to what we expect from modern tech like a car or airplane. Modern software is far more reliable than Apollo. The difference is that 99.9% correct-uptime is terrible for modern vehicle software, but was great for Apollo. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/6361/success-fail-probabilities-for-apollo-xi https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/6361/success-fail-...
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