19 Jan
2014
19 Jan
'14
5:08 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 03:08:42PM +0100, tim wrote:
Do you think it was more likely a communications problem? e.g. a bigwig
protecting his interests dealing with his European counterpart by not
informing the appropriate "departments/sections" of all the details.
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the
oppressing." --- Malcolm X
would fall out
of the sky. And he was right. Remember the 10^8
dollar NASA Mars probe that got lost because JPL was using
imperial units while NASA expected metric ones ?
maybe the engineers payed too much attention on getting all the
computations right :)
errors happen, most of us are humans. the question is mainly how to
catch and avoid them: programming languages can easily do dimensional
analysis at compile-time if the dimensions are encoded into the type system.