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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by jacobsenscott on Friday August 09, 2019 @10:25AM (#20654609)
There are occasionally novel engineering projects. These will be millions of dollars and years over budget, and then will fail. All their "mature industry standards and procedures and certifications" wont' save them.
Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by CapricornNoble on Saturday August 10, 2019 @06:59AM (#20661373)
It's unwise to extrapolate the US defense industry's procurement problems onto the Russians and Chinese. There's reasonable evidence to suggest the Russian Kinzhal and Zircon hypersonic missiles are already Working As Designed, or fairly close to it.[1][2]

[1]https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon