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That's an interesting though, like software documentation that hasn't been updated over years of patches. Do you remember where you read that? Sounds like an i
by LeonenTheDK 6y ago
That's an interesting though, like software documentation that hasn't been updated over years of patches.
Do you remember where you read that? Sounds like an interesting bit of history.
- birdyrooster 6y agoAlso sounds like a git repository where people were working on local branches to do production work and then when they left the company, never pushed their branch upstream.
- kelchm 6y agoThat's assuming there is a git repo or any kind of version control at all.
- oehtXRwMkIs 6y agoThey're not assuming. They're analogizing.
- azernik 6y agoA long write-up of an equivalent for the F-1 engine is here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-monstrous-f-1-moon-rocket-back-to-life/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the... The analogy to out-of-date software documentation is very apt. As problems or inefficiencies popped up in the factory, they'd change things and just not write them down (because of deadline pressure, often). If you wanted to build new ones you'd have to either get the factory workers to show you how the thing was actually built, or tear down a working example to reverse engineer it. (Which has been done!)