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grimoire on Aug 21, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: The one sure way to advance software engineering

If the bank's software decides to munge some data, no one dies. If your $2K laptop crashes, no one dies.

The cost (both financial and human) of an aviation failure far exceeds the cost of your laptop crashing.

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