737 Max Explanation by a Software Engineer

Re:737 Max Explanation by a Software Engineer by walterbell on Sunday March 17, 2019 @09:03PM (#19417901)

> Over time the original designers and engineers leave, new staff join. Field experience shows that most of the safety problems that were anticipated in design never happen. The organisation starts to become complacent.

This lifecycle pattern can be found at other organizational scales, including countries, e.g. soldier -> law -> artist -> merchant -> warlord -> soldier ..

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Re:737 Max Explanation by a Software Engineer by knowledgepowers on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @05:35PM (#19436211)

Where does this soldier -> lawyer etc formulation come from? Interesting idea!

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Re:737 Max Explanation by a Software Engineer by walterbell on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @05:55PM (#19436426)

Inspired by this John Adams quote from 1780, which covers the first three phases, https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L178005...

> I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.

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