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I posted some days ago an appendix by Feynman in the Challenger report, "Appendix F - Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle"[1] for those int
by maayank 14y ago
I posted some days ago an appendix by Feynman in the Challenger report, "Appendix F - Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle"[1] for those interested. Also, half of "Why do you care what people think?" is about his experience investigating the safety of the shuttle.
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4371024 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4371024
- mleonhard 14y agoI like his point about how bottom-up development is superior to top-down development.
- maayank 14y agoA lot of what he said regarding reliability figures and testing plans reasoning resonated with my experience in (software engineering) projects and made me think how his remarks are applicable to software development. Note to people who didn't read the appendix - he touches specifically software development in the latter part of his note.
- einhverfr 14y agoThat is an awesome document. Thanks for sharing. It's entirely applicable to any area of engineering including software engineering.