[jordanpg]

Excellent piece of writing. Very funny at times, witty like a satirical novelist. Particularly enjoyed the anecdotes from NASA and the author's conveying of the powerful emotional context of high stakes programming.

I pine for a golden, future age of programming where documentation is as he describes.

> This image brought to you by preventable catastrophe, budget overruns, political wrangling, infighting, incalculable complexity, and against it’s best effort, humanity.

Beautiful caption. The dismal history of NASA in one sentence.

[gibrown]

"dismal" - that's an absurd word to apply to an organization that has successfully enabled humanity to explore the solar system over the course of a short 50 years.

There is plenty to Monday-morning quarterback, but "dismal" is not the word I would ever use.

[jordanpg]

You're reading me wrong. Dismal means sad, and the caption is meant to be wry or ironic.