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From: Ben Morrow on 7 Apr 2010 15:51 Quoth Charlton Wilbur <cwilbur(a)chromatico.net>: > > If you want help, you've come to the right place. If you want to vent > about how miserable your life is and how nobody understands you, > livejournal is that way. +1 Ben
From: Uno on 8 Apr 2010 22:17 J�rgen Exner wrote: > ccc31807 <cartercc(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I agree that the software had a bug, and the bug was my >> responsibility, > > No, it hadn't and no you weren't. The software behaved according to the > spec, so there was no bug in the software. > >> but how do you protect yourself from 'unknown' >> requirements, in the absence of the person who actually KNOWS the >> requirements? > > By making sure that everyone who has a stake in the software attends the > spec review and signs off on the spec. If he doesn't speak up then a > flaw in the spec becomes _HIS_ problem, not yours. I've heard that "the problem" that is forcing toyota's recall is a software one. It sounds like "the problem" is going to be several defects in combination. They haven't come clean yet, so this is speculation. If there is one, I'll be interested to see the source for the software defect. -- Uno
From: J�rgen Exner on 8 Apr 2010 22:54 Uno <merrilljensen(a)q.com> wrote: >I've heard that "the problem" that is forcing toyota's recall is a >software one. It sounds like "the problem" is going to be several >defects in combination. They haven't come clean yet, so this is >speculation. > >If there is one, I'll be interested to see the source for the software >defect. Well, if this is true and if history is any guide, then it is either a decimal comma versus decimal point problem or a psi versus hPa problem. jue
From: Eric Pozharski on 9 Apr 2010 03:09 with <86vdc31lyy.fsf(a)mithril.chromatico.net> Charlton Wilbur wrote: *SKIP* > If you want help, you've come to the right place. If you want to vent > about how miserable your life is and how nobody understands you, > livejournal is that way. That's not the first time you're producing sigs. Quite a habit. -- Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom
From: Charlton Wilbur on 9 Apr 2010 11:33
>>>>> "EP" == Eric Pozharski <whynot(a)pozharski.name> writes: EP> with <86vdc31lyy.fsf(a)mithril.chromatico.net> Charlton Wilbur wrote: >> If you want help, you've come to the right place. If you want to >> vent about how miserable your life is and how nobody understands >> you, livejournal is that way. EP> That's not the first time you're producing sigs. Quite a habit. It has become apparent that coming up with terse bits of wisdom that fit comfortably within four lines may be my only real shot at immortality. Charlton -- Charlton Wilbur cwilbur(a)chromatico.net |