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Boeing or LM? I worked for Tupolev - Tu-214D, auxiliary fuel system control module, which actually did D in the name (which means Dalnii, Long Range in Russian)

by kika 12y ago

Boeing or LM? I worked for Tupolev - Tu-214D, auxiliary fuel system control module, which actually did D in the name (which means Dalnii, Long Range in Russian). My famous takeaway from these times was --- ARINC Report 431: No Fault Found – A Case Study provides the final report of AMC Task Group 116 formed to discover the causes of “No Fault Found” in avionics equipment during test. This standard identifies sources and provides recommendations for improvement. ---

danjayh 12y ago
Neither ... it's a subcontractor. Also your mention of ARINC brings to mind another thing - the business environment is way different than most of tech. Patent lawsuits are basically unheard of. Many of the companies within the field are not only competitors, but typically also partners in one or more ventures. The reason ARINC jogged that memory loose is that Rockwell Collins bought ARINC a while back, and then spun off the standards making division so as not to damage their credibility as the standards-creator for aviation. When I think of, say, mobile ... I just don't see those companies behaving that way.
- kika 12y ago
  Exactly, I felt the same. I believe it (cooperation, attention to detail, much less hype and lawsuits, etc) is because of the responsibility. If I sue competing startup and they will get distracted and miss their scaling problem and begin to return 502 errors - herd will call me a "fighter", some call me "this jerk, who's smarter in the courtroom than at the keyboard", etc, VCs will like me, anyway, I win. If I sue someone making a competing ARINC interface, they get distracted, miss a race condition and then 502 people die... I also get distracted, and another 404 people die. Well, it's a little bit worse than 502 error. And there's so many training and so many manuals, books, anecdotes around how many people may die if we don't "put enough assert()s in our code" that you just stop thinking about hype and lawsuits and gold miners.

by kika 12y ago

danjayh 12y ago

Neither ... it's a subcontractor. Also your mention of ARINC brings to mind another thing - the business environment is way different than most of tech. Patent lawsuits are basically unheard of. Many of the companies within the field are not only competitors, but typically also partners in one or more ventures. The reason ARINC jogged that memory loose is that Rockwell Collins bought ARINC a while back, and then spun off the standards making division so as not to damage their credibility as the standards-creator for aviation. When I think of, say, mobile ... I just don't see those companies behaving that way.

kika 12y ago
Exactly, I felt the same. I believe it (cooperation, attention to detail, much less hype and lawsuits, etc) is because of the responsibility. If I sue competing startup and they will get distracted and miss their scaling problem and begin to return 502 errors - herd will call me a "fighter", some call me "this jerk, who's smarter in the courtroom than at the keyboard", etc, VCs will like me, anyway, I win. If I sue someone making a competing ARINC interface, they get distracted, miss a race condition and then 502 people die... I also get distracted, and another 404 people die. Well, it's a little bit worse than 502 error. And there's so many training and so many manuals, books, anecdotes around how many people may die if we don't "put enough assert()s in our code" that you just stop thinking about hype and lawsuits and gold miners.