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not blood, but the DNA of cancer cells. really.

If your software kills someone (by mistake), personal guilt is a punishment one never completes.

On paper, this all makes a lot of sense. What is going to happen when these airplanes start falling out of the sky because they are just too old?

50 years is a long time for a piece of machinery. There will be many failure modes that will be discovered in these planes.

The C-130 was thought to last forever. Until about 10 years ago, well used planes being used for firefighting starting having structural failure in flight. Suddenly, organizations flying the older airframes decided that it was no longer effective to take the risk of failure.

USAF now has Cyber Warrant Officers.

if gnat (the gnu ada translator) from NYU had come out 5 years earlier, ada might have caught on with the masses.

yes, this is true. mainly due to a perceived lack of ada programmers on the market.

Ada is an order of magnitude more modern and sophisticated than your other examples.

I expect Ada will capture 0.05% of the market for the next 100 years.

This was almost true in 2000. It is not true now. Things change. Slowly.

Just because it can be measured, doesn't mean it should be.

These 'measures' would be much more useful if they were used to determine the control limits of the software process being used.

'hours from pull request to merge' for an open source project is silly. who cares? 'number of commits a month'? who cares. what is the value of those commits.

why the focus on 'constant churn of software'? I don't see it.

They do! The big platform OEM's have been saying no to extended tech data and source code access, but the smaller contracts require govt rights.

Either you give up your IP (drawings and source code) or you are non-compliant.

The commercial aircraft part of McD was dead when the merger happened. The had a cash cow called the "MD-80", which was a derivative DC-9. That had stopped selling.

Boeing got more value out of the defense part of McD.

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engineers on the bottom don't care about the politics. they design and implement the best they can.

You can be great at one phase of your life. Motivating people, working 20 hours a day, sleeping in the office. Probably Tesla would have gone under without Elon pushing, motivating, and showing his investment (meaning of time and energy).

It doesn't mean you are a statesman, a scholar, or all knowing. About anything.

It also doesn't mean that you can solve every problem you encounter in life with that kind of behavour.

Tesla as a company is an impressive accomplishment. Elon does sound crazy, however.

And thus WalterBright describes to us how VC's make money... risk and reward.

(Hi Walter. Love your posts...)

SpaceX will lose a vehicle. Not a question of if, rather one of when.

relax! i am not saying Elon isn't the greatest engineer ever, and SpaceX is not a great company.

space flight is a dangerous business.