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Re:The Atlantic Was Wrong. Software Engineers Do Exist by _lce0 on Monday November 09, 2015 @03:29PM (#10535582)
> Perhaps, if these software engineers make a mistake, people will not die, as with the civil engineers building bridges.

(these == infrastructure engineers)

When you have software that decides upon real life's objects, a small bug could end up in a disaster, even death.

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Re:The Atlantic Was Wrong. Software Engineers Do Exist by walshemj on Monday November 09, 2015 @07:17PM (#10536784)
Normally you blame the contractors - Back when I worked for one of the really big consulting engineers. I did reverse engineering on one project where the subcontractor had messed up some soil analysis,
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