On 10/29/2013 2:22 PM, qznc wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 October 2013 at 20:38:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6636811
I know that everyone is tired of hearing my airframe design stories, but it's
obvious to me that few engineers understand the principles of failsafe design.
This article makes that abundantly clear - and the consequences of paying no
attention to it.
You can add in Fukishima and Deepwater Horizon as more costly examples of
ignorance of basic failsafe design principles.
Yeah, I feel strongly about this.
Maybe you should write an article about "Failsafe Design Principles"? Some quick
googleing did not turn up anything useful. Only horror stories and
anti-examples.
I wrote one for DDJ a few years back, "Safe Systems from Unreliable Parts". It's
probably scrolled off their system.
