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Re:Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data by falcolas on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:11PM (#19627807)
A pilot is not a programmer. A minor, but important distinction.

EDIT: Aaaand I'm an idiot. My bad.

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Re:Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data by Zak on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:13PM (#19627839)
Philip Greenspun is, in fact a programmer. He's probably best known in these circles for the quote "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

It is possible to be both a pilot and a programmer.

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Re:Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data by fixermark on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:18PM (#19627875)
This is referred to in the industry as a "Dr. McNinja scenario."

(... nobody refers to it as that ;) ).

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Re:Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data by adolph on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:15PM (#19627856)
Are you claiming Greenspun is not a programmer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita

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Re:Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data by supergauntlet on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:15PM (#19627854)
https://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/

not only is he a programmer, but he has opinions on teaching programming.

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