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Re:Not Just Any Old Geek by witty_username on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @08:52AM (#12597235)
> If you were having cardiac surgery, would you prefer your surgeon to be a year out of med school having done the operation oh 3 or 4 times, or the proverbial graybeard who has done it a thousand times?

Rationally one would care about the outcomes, and the number of times would merely make us more certain about the outcome.

Relative to the two scenarios you showed, programming is usually more like tomato picking—nobody is going to die or be injured because of a bug or failure to deliver something.

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Re:Not Just Any Old Geek by ojbyrne on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @09:01AM (#12597274)
Perhaps most of the time that's true, I suspect that a lot of health care is the same. There have been plenty of instances of software bugs killing or injuring people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_bugs

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Re:Not Just Any Old Geek by pmoriarty on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @12:08PM (#12598831)
"nobody is going to die or be injured because of a bug or failure to deliver something"

You should read through RISKS Digest.[1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risks_digest

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Re:Not Just Any Old Geek by sharemywin on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @08:57AM (#12597259)
self driving cars.
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