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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Then maybe those developers shouldn't be employed. Most of us can't do brain surgery, and yet society trundles on without a million people running around poking frontal lobes. "But I really wanna!" has never been a qualification for any job in the history of jobs.

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This is the most pedantic sort of semantic navel-gazing that can only originate in the bowels of an HN thread. Bravissimo, truly.

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I'm not sure what you're arguing for then. Continue apace, where I get a letter every week about entire reams of my personal info leaked because some imbecile didn't set a password on their MongoDB instance?

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Upvoted you because last I checked, Fujitsu is a private entity being run for a profit.

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Programmers who get paid asstons of money don't want to admit that these are also fundamentally business failures, partially because if they were fixed, they probably wouldn't get six figures for styling HTML buttons anymore.

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I'm so tired of seeing "no system is 100% reliable" being used to excuse the most fundamental failures in this industry. Nobody's asking for 100% perfection, we're asking for the people writing the software to do X to actually do X correctly in the first place. How about, I don't know, 95% correctness? Is that too onerous?

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How's it working for those postal workers who committed suicide?

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Uh, the MAX was a disaster because Boeing is run by MBAs instead of engineers. Regulation is why air travel is remarkably safe. Those rules are written in blood, something everyone here conveniently seems to forget.

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Famously, civil engineering has never solved this problem, either, leading to the sad state of affairs in which we find ourselves today, wherein no bridges have been built anywhere.

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Innovation like calculating numbers incorrectly and getting people sent to jail? Or maybe just another hundred slow, rent-seeking React web apps that'll disappear when the series B money dries up, if we're lucky. We must have different ideas of what innovation is.