Systems software technology and business
Someone needs to come up with a slick name for “designed to fail during test instead of production” or for the more common “soft” type of programming. When we write code, we assume we screwed up somewhere, an assumption based on years of bitter experience (well, we assume someone screwed up, maybe in the tools, [...]
From Rory Stewart’s book the places in between about his absurd/wonderful walk accross Afghanistan in 2002:
That night we stopped in Dahan-e-Rezak, Dr. Habidullah’ mothers village. This was my first night in a tribal hill village. … Everyone in Rezak was descended from a single grandfather. There were six houses and seventy people in the village [...]