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Subject: Re: Software engineering managers
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:39:59 +0200
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In article <c1tpf4lmurdplvdamv0mai9c3n8ttok2do@4ax.com>,
"::darkshadows::" <blood@thirsty.net> wrote:
> At a recent software engineering management course in the US, the
> participants were given an awkward question to answer. "If you had
> just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers
> had been responsible for the flight control software how many of you
> would disembark immediately?"
>
> Among the ensuing forest of raised hands, only one man sat motionless.
> When asked what he would do, he replied that he would be quite content
> to stay onboard.
>
> With his team's software, he said, the plane was unlikely to even taxi
> as far as the runway, let alone take off.
Did that guy work with the Vista Group?
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