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    184 days ago

    Which they did learn from!
    I guarantee every mistake like this at any good company leads to a leap forward in tooling for simulation, testing, code building, review, merging, local dev environments etc.
    The good companies share their work (via open sourcing their solution, blogging their learnings) or by contribute to existing solutions.
    NASA’s ROI cannot be measured. The amount of industries their R&D has touched is massive

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      the code for the US shuttle program (outsourced to lockheed martin) written in the late 70’s and early 80’s is supposed to be some of the most flawless code ever produced, written by hundreds of folks too.

      https://archive.ph/HX7n4 really good article on it