AI6YR BenJun 6

This is great!

Flightaware: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation

https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/

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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation

There are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.

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Show threadJustin RibeiroJun 7
@ai6yr having written my fair of aviation and areo software over the decades, that list makes me laugh and cry all at the same time. 🤣
Show threadThomas Sturm

@justin @ai6yr Yes, this list brought back many memories from work I did two decades ago for Delta.

We built a flight schedule lookup system for their website and the core requirements had been UI-driven, but nobody had bothered to figure out the data requirements... we stepped into every single bear trap and stumbled over every rake on the lawn all through the project. 😅

Jun 7 at 3:09amWeb