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 -
Replying to @Symbo1ics @royvanrijn
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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Replying to @dibblego @royvanrijn
I assume you mean across all classes of aircraft? Or just small craft like the ones you fly?
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Not related to software, but something I came across just now. https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/a7uki0/why_does_the_faa_keep_teaching_an_incorrect/ … Aviation software is just as (especially) bad. A lamp post explains that equal transit theory is silly. Similarly, a lamp post writes better software than that which we find in our aircraft.
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Replying to @dibblego @royvanrijn
Meanwhile in UK, different topic https://twitter.com/i/moments/1075638026708140036 …
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