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Comment by benburleson | Hacker News Reader

Having worked on autonomous robot software, I'm willing to bet this is software taking the blame for a hardware issue :-)

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As a hardware engineer it doesn't matter if it is a hardware bug. Software should work around it.

No burn, but having worked outside the domain of autonomous robots, I'm willing to place the blame on an autonomous robot issue

I have been working designing both hardware and firmware for autonomous robots for the last 6 years.

When asked if a problem is hardware or software you provide the same answer if someone asks you if you are a god... you say YES!

Having worked on autonomous robot hardware i beg to differ

Definitely a wetware problem.

Problem exists between keyboard and chair. Or soldering iron and bench.

The hardware and software both sit between the soldering iron and bench.

Proves my point, right? :)

Ah yes, the programmers blame the engineers, and the engineers blame the programmers

Let's not forget the compilers. They're always messing stuff up!

You don't blame the tool. You blame the toolmaker.

Every real toolmaker is gifted with perfect precognitive capabilities so their tool behaves exactly as it should for all users, don'cha'know.

Naw. It's always user error.

I should have included a /s, but was feeling a bit cheeky.

I'm sure you've had to deal with plenty of spurious bug reports in your career :-)

When Einstein worked on nuclear bomb the saying was: If he fails French will say he's American, Americans will say he's German, and Germans will say he's Jew. If he succeed Germans will say he's German, Americans will say he's American, and French will say he belongs to the world.

His comment was about the theory of relativity rather than the bomb:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#1910s

Einstein didn't work on the nuclear bomb at all. According to https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/peace-and-war/the-..., he wrote that famous letter to Roosevelt and was later denied the necessary security clearance.

Amateurs. Real programmers blame other programmers.

The productive programmers I've met, and they are pretty up there, tend to blame it on the documented specs.

Jesus who wrote this crap code?

Looks at commit history

Oh it was me...

Past-me is such an idiot...

We should both know better

I think the hardware engineers ought to be blaming the physicist, keep the blame going up the abstraction ladder. Then the physicists can blame the universe, which was created in a lab by software engineers.

Well clearly sir you are wrong and haveth no idea of which you speak

Having worked on neither, I blame it on someone trying to impress a lady.

Big Bang Theory reference? When Howard was trying to impress a girl?

https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/Mars_Rover

yep.

Having worked with both autonomous robot hardware and software engineers. I’m certain it’s a communication problem. Not between software and hardware mind you, one between humans.

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