ahaproudowl

You are talking about a schedule not deadlines. Of course schedules are required, but safety is the concern.

The pilot turns up drunk, she turns up on time, but drunk. Do we stick to the flight deadline?

The deadline is an arbitrary guess, based on experience of when something will be ready. Of course delivery dates are important, quality is also important.

The author I think could phrase the argument better by saying a delivery date (something that is promised, based on quality) is more useful than a deadline (something demanded, regardless of quality).

Delivery dates do not preclude working hard and bring prudent, but they are not hard stops. Rather they are good estimations that can and often do shift.

Sales team needs that thing by December 1st? Don't ask for it on November 29th. Put leeway into the model by giving time for the delivery date to be missed. It's called contingency.

But, depends on your philosophy - move fast and break things,or deliver consistent quality code.

The delivery date of an airplane and it's flight schedule are two completely different things.

The delivery date is an estimate and the date can shift until the plane is safe to fly. The deadline for delivery is not a true deadline and the factory will only work to its safe production limit to deliver the plane.

A bad practice would be to just put the plane out on the tarmac, regardless of state.

It works to the safe productivity limit of the factory, not the arbitrary demand of the customer.

Yes, imagine air travel wasrun like that: "The plane must be ready by December 1st!"

Proper safety checks wouldn't let the plane leave the ground. Delays in that critical state are inconvenient, but you accept them because the alternative is not acceptable.

We should treat software in exactly the same way, It's ready when it's ready.

The issue is the illusion of control. A bad CEO will measure the performance of his CTO by productivity alone. A good CEO will measure the CTO's output by consistently increasing quality.

Great game, more levels and maybe a countdown for animals that will eat other animals (and end the game) if they are left on the same pad for too long.

No, you're right. A 737max can only affect a few hundred people's lives.

This is why 'build at all costs' has cost us so much. Look at the negative effects this dog eat dog build fast, break things (including people), culture has on society.

Toxic bullshit.

To me it shows a bit of naivety by the police force. Hopefully Inspector Montalbano was not in charge of this one.

I think in economies where tech is slower to adopt into the mainstream agenda, abuses like this are seen as the digital equivalent of 'reasonable force'. Where there is no existing protocol, there will be fuzzy lines and abuses in order to justify bringing criminals to justice.

Aha! Looks like they "sent them in error", whatever that means... whoops! http://imgur.com/0oXES08

Yes, I can confirm that it is indeed down from here too (Wales, UK). That is a pretty big 'down'.

Like and follow buttons affected too.

Network error on the App.

I think this is symptom of media consumption and drama led narratives. We are so used to seeing the great and the good destroyed and pillared by media institutions who have an axe to grind, that when someone does actually do something positive, it is seen with utter cynicism by most (what's in it for them).

If you can see past that, you will see that Mr Musk is acting in his own interests and the interests of humanity as a whole at the same time. He is giving away the patents to help create a marketplace he can compete in, he is also giving away the patents because he feels that this will help humanity.

There is nothing wrong with either approach really, just a balance that needs to be struck between them.

This balance is what the media distorts, it creates a drama where the figurehead is 'good' or 'bad'. The truth is that no one is entirely either, but their actions can be.

Old arguments, yes there are problems. People are solving them beautifully. See http://famo.us