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metaphyze on April 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-dri...

Both GM and Ford have been hiring a lot of software engineers in Detroit in the past few years. The problem is that they need NASA-style software engineers (crazy-anal nit-picky consider-every-possibility style engineers)--not engineers from the regular software industry. If your car crashes, you can't just reboot it.

PorterDuff on April 11, 2019 | [–]

It seems to me that there's less of that than there used to be.

In days of yore, I shipped quite a few ROM-based products. Bugs were frowned upon.

vonmoltke on April 11, 2019 | [–]

That, and they pay shit relative to the regular software industry.

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