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Re:Anti-patterns and Malpractices in Modern Software Develop... by mi100hael on Monday October 24, 2016 @01:10PM (#12780700)
Bit of a jump there, no? The ethics of building crap commercial software is quite a bit different than the ethics of building mass surveillance or munitions software.
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Re:Anti-patterns and Malpractices in Modern Software Develop... by cornchips on Monday October 24, 2016 @01:34PM (#12780939)
No.

"I try to stay much less emotionally attached to the end-result".

This is the mindset that drives most of military, police and totalitarian policy. You don't drop a bomb or violate the constitution without a bit of emotional divestment.

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Re:Anti-patterns and Malpractices in Modern Software Develop... by mi100hael on Monday October 24, 2016 @01:41PM (#12780999)
The mindset may be the same. The ethics behind adopting that mindset are very different. No one dies if Tinder crashes because it tried to load too many images at once.
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