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Perhaps it's because software has an obvious history of being buggy. A web service won't be down for a while if this fails, hundreds of lives being at risk on a
by toddh 15y ago
Perhaps it's because software has an obvious history of being buggy. A web service won't be down for a while if this fails, hundreds of lives being at risk on a 24 hour a day basis. Maybe a little wait-and-see is a reasoned approach for a complex interactive dynamical system like this?
- burgerbrain 15y agoI don't think there is a computer in the world that has a worse uptime than myself. Even old cheap Windows ME boxes did a fair enough job of being able to run without impairment for more than 20 hours or so.
- toddh 15y agoThe complexity of the applications will be far greater than Windows ME. Good article on The Long, Dismal History of Software Project Failure - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/05/the-long-dismal-history-of-software-project-failure.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/05/the-long-dismal-his.... Before we let everyone's self-driving mashup on the road it might be good to figure out if they work first.