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Re:Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers by nutjob2 on Saturday June 29, 2019 @01:27PM (#20313707)
These planes run over $50 million each, and even a misprogrammed galley oven could potentially bring down a plane in flight. Given that, would you be happy that they outsourced any engineering in this way?
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Re:Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers by logjammin on Saturday June 29, 2019 @02:14PM (#20313945)
Didn't SwissAir 111 crash because of faulty in-flight entertainment systems? I think there's precedent for lower-rung stuff having unexpected and outsized impact in aviation.
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Re:Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers by nell on Sunday June 30, 2019 @11:52AM (#20318822)
There is no evidence that the software the contractors wrote ever ran anywhere on the plane.

Given, how many admin tools are built for simple SaaS apps, a project such as a new airplane will have a ton of tools that are built purely for the development cycle, most of them running offline or in the lab.

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