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The untold story of QF72: What happens when 'psycho' automation leaves pilots powerless? - Loungtastic

The untold story of QF72: What happens when 'psycho' automation leaves pilots powerless? - Loungtastic The best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained crew. The worst is buggy software and no manual backstop to "Within a minute, the...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 3, 2018 8:16 PM

Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence

Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence "First off, there are, I believe, really two reasons why we're so bad at making estimates. The first is the sort of irreducible one: writing software involves figuring out something in...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 27, 2013 12:09 AM

SourceForge.net: Pre-defined C/C++ Compiler Macros

SourceForge.net: Pre-defined C/C++ Compiler Macros C/C++ macros tied to compiler, operating-system, machine architecture, and language standard. Very helpful for writing open-source code that can compile and run in a variety of circumstances....

Posted by Michael Bates on August 31, 2012 7:08 PM

A Timeless Way of Building Software [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog]

A Timeless Way of Building Software [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog] Interesting....

Posted by Michael Bates on November 28, 2008 12:50 PM