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Re:Programmer Tim Clemans Resigns from Seattle Police Depart... by sleepybrett on Friday October 30, 2015 @04:29PM (#10480351)
Clememns is in the comments explaining how the system worked. He just reads the current calls out of a database and displays them with some highlighting. There is no write.
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Re:Programmer Tim Clemans Resigns from Seattle Police Depart... by foobarian on Friday October 30, 2015 @08:29PM (#10481331)
Not only that but from his other comments, the problem wasn't this particular system, but similar projects going forward.
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Re:Programmer Tim Clemans Resigns from Seattle Police Depart... by throwawaymaroon on Friday October 30, 2015 @07:37PM (#10481187)
... until the connection pool is misconfigured or something and the writes can't get in.

Touching mission critical things always has risk and those risks have to be mitigated at a political level. If the programmer is this bad at respecting political ownership of responsibility, he has no business touching production this way.

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