Comments on: The Cargo Cult of Preferences https:/2008/06/the-cargo-cult-of-preferences/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Benjamin Supnik https:/2008/06/the-cargo-cult-of-preferences/#comment-1029 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:01:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=343#comment-1029 Hi Chris,

Cargo Cults are near and dear to me…to me the most topical one is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming

But I figured I’d back off one stage in the derivation to Cargo Cult Science (a bit more generalized).

]]> By: Chris Kern https:/2008/06/the-cargo-cult-of-preferences/#comment-1030 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:39:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=343#comment-1030 I want to compliment you on your reference to “cargo cult.” Not many people are familiar with the term these days. But the URL you provided leads to Richard Feynman’s interesting, but derivative, definition. A better link would have been http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult.

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