I worked as an electrical engineer for a decade. The practices aren't fundamentally any different than in software engineering.
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Some things were better (testing, formal methods, perf analysis), and some things were worse (version control, automation, most tools).
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YMMV, but I found that working on a team that didn't use version control (hardware team at Microsoft) resulted in a terrible product.
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It didn't help that the TL didn't believe in running tests, having consistent interfaces, or using pipelining. But it was RealEngineering™!
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Isn't it more of a political failure? They took off to "save face". The engineering worked, ie all the alarms were buzzing madly
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having built software for engineers mainly i can confirm that they are also tinkering big time :)
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"safety third"
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There's a reason she's legendary. This is exemplary work but not mainstream.
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Can a Tu-144 go supersonic though?
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