So you didn't read what I wrote, got it.
The very first thing you did was ignore my point about documentation earlier in this thread: "I can count the number of the times where work was delayed because the requirements were specified verbally and no one wrote them down."
More than you I can guarantee it.
I do not believe anything you guarantee. That solves that matter, does it not?
No, thats not what I'm saying but since you're clearly too stupid to understand my point we'll just call it a day and you can continue to wallow in your ignorance.
You said: " then problems are best solved and designs generated when everyone is together in a room with a white board." You said that. Not me. That is not true FOR EVERYONE. Not everyone works the same. You are not everyone. You seem not to understand this point.
Unless you work for some mickey mouse web company or similar doing unimportant BS, then problems are best solved and designs generated when everyone is together in a room with a white board.
In your world. Not in everyone's world. The part you seem to ignore is that now you are relying on people's memory about important details unless you write down what happened like in a summary email or other documentation.
Then you don't work in a serious company if they don't minute important meetings.
Bahahahahaha. Have you actually worked for a serious company? Meetings happen all the time. Sometimes key people are not available for every meeting. Should things be documented? Yes. In things called emails. You seem to still insist that work can ONLY be done in meetings. According to you.
I'm all for home working, but some jobs simply require teams to work in the same physical location - eg safety critical engineering. I speak as someone who worked in aerospace.
The complaint was not that some people work better when physically located near team members. The complaint was Musk insisted that people work in open offices specifically or they cannot work for him.
You CANNOT have something slip through the net because it was missed on a teams chat or email, people have to literally and figuratively be in the same room when discussing important topics. If you disagree then fine, but you're the wrong person for the job.
So you would rather rely on people’s memory of verbal communications instead of relying on records of written communications? That seems more ripe for failure. However, part of every engineering project I have been a part is the insistence on written documentation for things like specifications. There are procedures for things like requests, changes, approvals, etc. These systems are now electronic so a piece of paper does not need to be located in a specific filing cabinet. That can be done remotely.
Now we're whining when a new company that has never done a lunar mission before, has a failure on its first mission. A mission with a vastly smaller budget than NASA had in the 1960s, too.
We are not whining. We are warning people not to automatically believe ambitious promises that such efforts are easy. Here on slashdot, some people are already promoting Starship on how it can deliver 100 ton payloads cheaper than anyone else. The word "can" has not been demonstrated yet.
You've got a point there but you left yourself open to the counter: Musk also managed to ferry people to the station at a price NASA couldn't match with the shuttle.
Er. No. People at SpaceX did. People seem to forget: Musk is not an engineer. He has limited understanding of the engineering. He just likes taking credit for the work his people do.
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