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Submission + - Wired: How Tech Almost Lost the War 1

An anonymous reader writes: Blame the geeks for the mess in Iraq? Wired says so. Networked troops were supposed to be so efficient, it'd take just a few of 'em to wipe out their enemies. But the Pentagon got their network theory all wrong, with too few nodes and a closed architecture. Besides, a more efficient killing machine is the last thing you want in an insurgency like Iraq.

Comment Most Programming is not an art (Score 2) 128

I don't understand why are these supposed to be relevant to software engineering ( not comp science). This is true for any engineering activiy. I simply don't agree that software engineering is much more complex than Designing a product or civil engg. I think they are even more complex as the constraints can be more physical in nature with a much larger number of people involved.

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