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Hilarious criticism coming from software engineers which is never late or over budget. Even when there’s nothing actually novel in the product
by redisman 5y ago
Hilarious criticism coming from software engineers which is never late or over budget. Even when there’s nothing actually novel in the product
- adtac 5y agoI don't want to tell NASA/ESA/CSA how to operate, but I haven't heard of a single software product that launched 10 years late. Such a product would be immediately DOA because of how fast technology moves. Obviously a space telescope is literally rocket science, so it's nothing like the next popular JavaScript library, but I think NASA could adopt a little bit of the move-fast-break-things mentality. Apparently they're running Python 1.5 on the JWST ffs. All I'm saying is there's room to improve. JWST would be a monumental success for humanity even if it launched 20 years late.
- qsmi 5y agoI can count so many I can't even decide where to begin. This being the classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Duke_Nukem_Forever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Duke_Nukem_Fore... "The video game Duke Nukem Forever spent fifteen years in development, from 1996 to 2011."
- baq 5y agoyeah most get cancelled before that time, so you don't hear about them.
- Okx 5y agoI don't think you should be risking anything when there's $5bn at stake and a single failure can cause you to lose all of it