Posted on 07/01/2019 12:15:56 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
It’s a good headline grabber but you have to dig deep into the story to find out the MCAS and other critical components were developed in house in the US.
This is the third time this story has been posted, and for the third time, outsourced software engineers did NOT write the MCAS software for the 737 MAX.
Re-hash from yesterday’s post.
There was not a coding mistake. The code executed the control logic designed by Boeing’s engineers to design specifications implemented by Boeing. The job of a coder is to, err code, not design flight control systems.
Has Boeing actually admitted to a mistake in its control system? It has admitted to not communicating its crazy @55 control scheme as it should have, it has admitted that maybe their should be more training, but it has darn sure not said the sytstem itself is at fault let alone the code.
Way baaaack we called it GIGO.
DOJ is also investigating Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. Substandard parts. The decision makers need to spend some time in the clink.
I began to learn to code in 1973. Still learning.
Coding is the easy part. What’s behind the code (design) is tough.
Bill Boeing has to be spinning in his grave. His B-17s were tough as nails and won the war without any software.
Maybe Boeing should get into the window air conditioner business where junk products are the norm. At least they can’t kill anyone directly.
Did some coding, watched a lot of projects go by, thought all these people must be idiots. Then I got a degree in computer science. Now I know they were idiots.
If you structure your staff so the brighter ones are at the top, and the dumber ones are at the bottom, you can produce good code. The other way around, which is the universally accepted configuration, and you mostly do nothing, with an occasional disaster produced.
If you’ve ever watched “Office Space”, you’ve looked upon the face of the gorgon.
This story is not accurate. Boeing does out source to contractors but they work in Boeing Facilities with Boeing and Quality control over looking their work.. Granted the Contractors make less money per hour but a lot of them go to work for Boeing after their contract is up.. During the NATO upgrade for AWACS we had contract employee’s working with the software up grades and Boeing had to sell this to NATO.. These are not rogue employees working in a far off land..
Keep reading down the thread and you will see that I’m right.
"Dave" from customer support: Yes, sir, you're diving uncontrollably at 500 miles per hour. I can certainly help you with that. Can you try rebooting the system, I'll hold on.
-PJ
And which executives and or managers get fired.
Ah the old content gambit. Can they blame India and China?
Lol.
Actually that has been successfully tried in a couple of Scifi movies. One of the Terminator movies, 2010 and HAL. Although HAL was reprogrammed.
H1B means FAKE SKILLS
H1B Foreign STEM software engineers have FAKE degrees, FAKE skillsets, FAKE backgrounds, ...
... writing your software.
It is all fun and games until the software product has human safety consequences.
This is Congress lawyers learning to code. They aim for poor quality, cheap unpaid labor while skimming profits.
Disasterous.
I used to deliver near 100% error free code.
Quality Assurance and reviews are for pussies.
Management is quality averse because sending out bug fixes is so simple. Price is everything, even with multiple redos.
If software does not go out near 100% error free, you hired the wrong staff. Suck it up.
True, but it’s the mentality that imported all the H1B’s in lieu of American workers that led to offshoring to the 9 buck/hour worker.
Incidentally, many H1B workers are not exactly highly educated specialized talent. An increasing number are of the lower echelons that cannot command much in the way of wages.
All in the interest of replacing the white male with, well, just about anybody else.
A lot of what I read indicates that the problem is not software and that the aircraft is totally mis-designed. I have to believe that if the problem was software, it would be fixed by now. The 737 Max 8 looks like something designed by Frankenstein.
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