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points by physicles 3 days ago | 0 comments

Residential construction isn’t much better. But the people who build the really tall stuff, the structures that would kill people if they collapse, that’s real engineering. The odd bridge that collapses is usually a political problem (lack of funds for maintenance).

[–] maccard 3 days ago

Go hang out on a subreddit for electricians, or plumbers, and in any thread where they talk about the professional side of it, you'll see a consensus that all the work is awful, done with no regard for professionalism, and that if there was just more support for doing it properly they would. Just like here.

There are plenty of software projects that are managed to an incredibly high standard professionally - OpenBSD, PostgreSQL, Curl all come to my mind pretty much immediately. Linux is probably the closest thing to "skyscraper" development and has been going for 35 years at this point.

[–] ebiester 3 days ago

Have you heard of 432 Park Avenue?

[–] post-it 3 days ago

Doesn't look like it's collapsed and killed people.