A short fable of software engineering vs. regular engineering

Re:A short fable of software engineering vs. regular enginee... by redneck_ on Sunday January 10, 2016 @03:38PM (#10877087)

As a civil engineer I am seeing a lot of ignorance on the part of the hackers towards the physical sciences, especially the author.

Software debugging has 2 parts:

a) find the bug - lucky for you a machine does this step automatically

b) fix the bug - once the bug is found this is self explained

Industrial debugging has 2 parts:

a) find the bug - requires going on the production floor and measuring things

b) fix the bug - once the bug is found this is self explained

How are they different?

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Re:A short fable of software engineering vs. regular enginee... by Sir_Substance on Sunday January 10, 2016 @03:45PM (#10877123)

I'm a little confused on what you're trying to say. If I read your post correctly, you think software bugs fix themselves because computers find them automatically?

Neither is true.

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Re:A short fable of software engineering vs. regular enginee... by assocguilt on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @07:51PM (#10891552)

Dick Smith screwed customer with gift vouchers - you used to work for them - that should be a career ending move for you as you worked for such a scummy organisation!!!

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Re:A short fable of software engineering vs. regular enginee... by Sir_Substance on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:03PM (#10905497)

Wow, have I stung such a bee with you that you're following the comment up a second time, in the wrong thread?

I've answered you in the other thread.

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