Why does every project, every piece of code feel so incredibly bodged? How can software engineers get on a plane and trust their lives to millions lines of code once you’ve seen what code usually looks like?!
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Rob Russell @www_ora_tion_caThis is wildly disingenuous, I speak as a flight instructor and major IT incident investigator. Modern software authors have the professional discipline of a cute puppy in comparison to aviation practitioners. https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1027298006972821504 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Code that runs on airplanes is not written by "software engineers," it is written by licenced engineering firms. "Software engineers" are not engineers.
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Yes it is. I write my own because of how rubbish the existing software is, for example.
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For example, it is known, a fact, Amelia Earhart crashed because of a bug in her guidance software, true story.
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I can point to approximately one aircraft incident per week, due to bugs in certificated software. This does not surprise me at all.
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Yikes, part of me is curious and wants to see that claim backed up; but OTOH... maybe we’re better off ignorant
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Well, I'm doing a long nav flight early January. Guarantee that the certificated nav avionics will crash. Fortunately, I do not depend on it. That is, after four times phoning the (only) aeronautical chart provider in AU about missing or buggy charts in the latest release.
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