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Feynman, Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering
- digamber_kamat 17y agoExcellent Article. Thought I am very skeptical about its relevance to SWE, the report however is worth a read.
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- gchpaco 17y agoFeynman's report comments briefly on the software, but it is much more relevant as a way of thinking about engineering in general.
- edw519 17y agoWe suck because we constantly ignore well-established, well-known, empirically proven practices. And we ignore them because we are in such a hurry to release anything that is "good enough". (But then again, a social website != space shuttle software.)
- ludwig 17y agoI forget where I read this quote, but here it is paraphrased: "Whereas in Physics people stand on the shoulders of giants, in Computer Science people stand on each other's toes."
- sdave 17y agobest piece i ve' read all day.
- idlewords 17y agoRead more.
- monos 17y agofun fact about the challenger disaster. letting it launch at all was clearly an infovis fail, as tufte explains: http://www.asktog.com/books/challengerExerpt.html http://www.asktog.com/books/challengerExerpt.html (i guess a lot went wrong)