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My dad would start yelling at the screen if he read this article. He runs power tool manufacturing business, that requires each product to be tested and tested
by ranebo 14y ago
My dad would start yelling at the screen if he read this article. He runs power tool manufacturing business, that requires each product to be tested and tested to perfection. If there is a fatal flaw the entire line may need to be recalled.
The fact I can push a software update to a million users in minutes makes him green with envy.
So yes software is hard... but cost free replication is an enormous upside.
- praptak 14y agoNot every piece of software is like that. My updates take time measured in months from the moment developers declare them "done" till the first time a line of code is executed in production. And this is assuming all forks on this path go positive. Not that I'm complaining, just giving some perspective. Maybe this will make your dad less jealous :)
- ranebo 14y agoSure I can completely see that being the case in many situations (for example all Aircraft software engineers have my utmost thanks :-)), but even then the cost of prototyping changes or testing fixes is made much easier by the malleable nature of code.