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Arthur C. Clarke: Superiority (1951)
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davidgerard
on Jan 14, 2018
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aleph2c
on Jan 14, 2018
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The Soviet take on this can be found here:
http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/06.html
Footkerchief
on Jan 14, 2018
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I read the story's Norden as a jab at the Norden bombsight, another high-tech weapon that failed to improve real-world results:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norden_bombsight#Postwar_analy...
wizardhat
on Jan 14, 2018
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_(short_story)
andrewjl
on Jan 14, 2018
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"Done is better than perfect"
WillReplyfFood
on Jan 15, 2018
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The problem is, we forget the failures and the pain and remember the succeses. Nobody remembers the german attempt to get the bomb. Everbody remembers Trinity.
Malic
on Jan 14, 2018
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LOL! Is the submitter trying to use this as a thinly veiled parable for JavaScript Fatigue?
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