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Re:How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics by Spivak on Friday July 01, 2016 @04:37PM (#12019450)
> No-fucking-body in his right mind orders things that way

Except, for example, the ACM Software Engineer's code of ethics where this is the explicitly stated order.

[1] http://www.acm.org/about/se-code

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Re:How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics by lr4444lr on Friday July 01, 2016 @05:24PM (#12019756)
1.03. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.

You think Facebook engineers can seriously go to work every day and abide by that?

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Re:How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics by forgottenpass on Friday July 01, 2016 @04:55PM (#12019585)
Could you point to the part of the ACM code that stack ranks priorities? I must be missing it. It's a code to act ethically in conducting job functions, not how to set personal priorities around a career.

In fact the code says it's all in service of the public, if there is any sense of priorities to derive, the employer is not on top. And besides, "The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions."

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Re:How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Friday July 01, 2016 @04:39PM (#12019468)
> in his right mind

Which is another way to say that people who comes up with these things aren't in their right minds.

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Re:How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics by korrach on Friday July 01, 2016 @09:38PM (#12020985)
>8. SELF - Software engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the profession.

Software engineers shall eat learning comrades.

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Re:How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics by danielweber on Friday July 01, 2016 @04:55PM (#12019582)
I see "team" three times and "company" zero times. Can you point to the specific portion?
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Re:How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics by viewer5 on Friday July 01, 2016 @04:58PM (#12019608)
"employer" is in there 20 times. Did you even glance at the document?

CLIENT AND EMPLOYER is #2 in the list, and SELF is #8. COLLEAGUES is #7.

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