Saving the World from Code
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One note to make regarding the 'new' problem: the term 'software crisis' was coined in 1968. It was used throughout the 1970s by the likes of Edsger Dijkstra and David Parnas to describe the failure of the then-current methods, and the lack of professionalism in the field.
Also, the windshield oopsie I mentioned was the June 10th, 1990 incident in British Airways flight 5390:
For some reason, this video misidentifies it as flight 111. It's one of the strangest stories the series has covered, IMO, but also one of the more upbeat since there was no actual crash, and the investigation is as fascinating as the accident.
Mayday - Blow Out - British Airways 111 – 01:32
— Mayday
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And just for completion's sake, here's the Mayday/Air Crash Investigation episode on Alaska Airlines 261, and the Wicked-Pedo link as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJNS0w1Iiss
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@scholrlea said in Saving the World from Code:
@boomzilla said in Saving the World from Code:
You could just have sane clients like I do and it won't be a problem.
Show of hands, who here has ever had one sane client/primary stakeholder? I sure as fuck haven't.
Oh...my people clients aren't sane.
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@scholrlea said in Saving the World from Code:
Also, the windshield oopsie I mentioned was the June 10th, 1990 incident in British Airways flight 5390:
blowing the plane's captain, Tim Lancaster, halfway out of the aircraft.
This, folks, is why you should wear your seatbelt even when the captain has turned the seatbelt sign off.
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@hardwaregeek Ironically enough, according to the ACI episode (I'll see if I can find a link to a full version of it), Lancaster had just unbuckled his seatbelt when the bolts gave way. The windshield of an airliner popping out like a cork from a champagne bottle, without any real warning? Not something you would expect to happen. Ever.
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@hardwaregeek said in Saving the World from Code:
This, folks, is why you should wear your seatbelt even when the captain has turned the seatbelt sign off.
Don't worry, in
cattleeconomy class the windows are so small that you can't possibly be blown through them.
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- The windows are that size due to design considerations, not as some kind of "punishment" for not buying an expensive-enough ticket. The windows on the multi-billion-dollar Air Force One are the same size as the windows on the cheapest commercial version of the same aircraft. (Well, not really, since that's a freighter with no windows at all... but you get the point.)
- Children could be.
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@blakeyrat Oh, thanks for explaining that to me, I had no idea.
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@remi said in Saving the World from Code:
Oh, thanks for explaining that to me, I had no idea.
You are quite welcome and probably sarcastic as fuck but I'm typing this reply anyway.
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@blakeyrat said in Saving the World from Code:
The windows are that size due to design considerations, not as some kind of "punishment" for not buying an expensive-enough ticket.
Don't be ridiculous. Literally everything in coach is specifically designed "as some kind of 'punishment' for not buying an expensive-enough ticket." The airlines carefully measure just how bad they can get things before causing real harm or inviting government investigations, and push the envelope just as far as they possibly can, and then graciously offer you relief in various forms, if you're willing to pay a bit extra for it...
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@masonwheeler said in Saving the World from Code:
@blakeyrat said in Saving the World from Code:
The windows are that size due to design considerations, not as some kind of "punishment" for not buying an expensive-enough ticket.
Don't be ridiculous. Literally everything in coach is specifically designed "as some kind of 'punishment' for not buying an expensive-enough ticket." The airlines carefully measure just how bad they can get things before causing real harm or inviting government investigations, and push the envelope just as far as they possibly can, and then graciously offer you relief in various forms, if you're willing to pay a bit extra for it...
Perhaps the process of continually gradually lowering customers' expectations in the hopes of extracting more money from them should be called "shifting the United Airlines window", by analogy to "shifting the Overton window" in politics?
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@blakeyrat said in Saving the World from Code:
Children could be.
Now that's a tempting thought when they won't shut up on a long flight…
British Airways Flight 5390 - Wikipedia
