It remains the mystery at the heart of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max crisis: how a company renowned for meticulous design made seemingly basic software mistakes leading to a pair of deadly crashes. Longtime Boeing engineers say the effort was complicated by a push to outsource work to lower-paid contractors.
The Max software – plagued by issues that could keep the planes grounded months longer after U.S. regulators this week revealed a new flaw – was developed at a time Boeing was laying off experienced engineers and pressing suppliers to cut costs.
Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace – notably India.
In offices across from Seattle’s Boeing Field, recent college graduates employed by the Indian software developer HCL Technologies Ltd. occupied several rows of desks, said Mark Rabin, a former Boeing software engineer who worked in a flight-test group that supported the Max.
The coders from HCL were typically designing to specifications set by Boeing. Still, “it was controversial because it was far less efficient than Boeing engineers just writing the code,” Rabin said. Frequently, he recalled, “it took many rounds going back and forth because the code was not done correctly.”
And Apple wants to move phone manufacture there? Good luck.
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[–] 19478750? ago
Soy devs, web cucks, and code monkeys forever BTFO. Your experience with object-orientation, garbage collection, bloated runtime environments, and unnecessary abstractions is completely worthless. Those who can't manage memory themselves and climb the ladder to heaven via convenience are doomed to crash airplanes.
Fuck all you pretenders and people who have this career just for money. Your inability to care about performance, reliability, maintainability, and not having an introductory understanding of the hardware has resulted in people's deaths.
All you C++, C#, Java, Python, Go, Ruby, and Javascript niggers will hang on the day of the rope for ruining a noble profession.
[–] 19505939? ago
Dug out an old box from the garage recently. Apparently the reason Windows 98 ran so well was because the previous owner put 16GB in there. Must have cost a fortune, I was clueless about memory then.
[–] 19482633? ago
wew
[–] 19489799? ago
It's not too bad. Sure, they take jobs but they create some too. For instance, I make 310k per annum doing nothing except fixing up Pajeet spaghetti code.
>>13453413
LISP is for homosexuals.
[–] 19482660? ago
Where are lisp machines today? Oh that's right :^)