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Failure Is Always an Option

Logic Bomb writes "The New York Times has a short but elegant op-ed regarding the different perspectives of engineers and managers and the role that plays in accidents like the space shuttle Columbia disaster. It's the sort of article you'll nod all the way through, then print and leave anonymously on your supervisor's desk. Any tech managers in the Slashdot crowd might have some interesting comments on how the right balance is struck." Henry Petroski has written several good books on engineering and failure.

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  1. FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hope I don't fail this first post.

    Bastards.

  2. THERES A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    GO LINUX!

  3. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I MDE TEH FRIST PUST

  4. HEY, THERE'S A YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    gO LUniX!11!

  5. I have some news for you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    *I VOMIT ON FAILURES is DYING!


    Please try to keep posts on topic.

  6. Re:Fail? by Usquebaugh · · Score: 0, Troll

    What he meant was.

    My employees have exhausted every avenue and I'm going to take credit for their toil.

  7. even morons advise rejecting /. recommendation.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    to accept failure, just because that's what's available to them preseNTly.

    fauxking self-absorbed FraUDs they are.

    the attitude is suicidal in regards to the main task, which is planet/population rescue.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creator. vote with yOUR wallet. that's the spirit.

    the evile wons will, of course, fail, based on their motives.

    99% of US can easily claim the high ground here.

    pay no mind/monIE to the advise of the walking dead.

  8. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, posting stops YOU.

  9. Re:In Soviet Russia... by MisterFancypants · · Score: -1, Troll
    In Soviet Russia failure is because of YOU!

    So what you're saying is Soviet Russia is just like everywhere else?

  10. Re:Full Text INDEED! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No one knows a machine or its failure modes as well as CmdrTaco, as he has repeatedly failed to reach orgasm with his linux-powered anal dildo.

    Well done Moderators!
    Next time, read the full post and compare it to the original article.

  11. THERE"S A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    READ TEH SUB

    Ps GO LINUX!

  12. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dumb comments post MICHAEL!!!

  13. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well MisterFancyPants, speak for yourself.

  14. In Soviet Russia they would have gone up after by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    In Soviet Russia we would have gone up after Columbia if the US left it there. Salvage is for the finder to keep.