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by molteanu 2912 days ago
The subject of it.
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People who think of themselves as "hackers" ought to be keenly interested in the entire Shuttle program, especially failure cases, and perhaps even more strongly interested in the human elements related to them.

These things were truly marvels of engineering (in both positive and negative respects). The kinds of thought that goes into these kinds of things, and so many other in the physical engineering world, make "hacking" look trite in many ways.