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digamber_kamat
Excellent Article. Thought I am very skeptical about its relevance to SWE, the report however is worth a read.
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gchpaco
Feynman's report comments briefly on the software, but it is much more relevant as a way of thinking about engineering in general.
edw519
We suck because we constantly ignore well-established, well-known, empirically proven practices.

And we ignore them because we are in such a hurry to release anything that is "good enough". (But then again, a social website != space shuttle software.)

ludwig
I forget where I read this quote, but here it is paraphrased: "Whereas in Physics people stand on the shoulders of giants, in Computer Science people stand on each other's toes."