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Re:If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the p... by nevir on Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:59PM (#15411131)
Agreed. You can be sure that whomever was involved with the bug will probably never make that mistake again.
Re:If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the p... by stinos on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:05PM (#15411206)
You can be sure ... probably

So which one will it be?

On a more serious note: this really depends on the person in question. Not everyone has that state of mind it takes to be extra wary when you find yourself in a similar situation where it went worng before. I've worked with people who made pretty severe mistakes, were pointed out, nodded 'yes', only to just make the exact same programming mistake a few months later. And again, and again.

Re:If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the p... by cakes on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:34PM (#15411482)
Agreed - something I've personally seen drive such a thing in some people are plans/checklists/etc (nothing wrong with having these) where the recognition of severity is overriden with checking as many boxes as possible in an 8hr day as is required.
Re:If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the p... by mikestew on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:18PM (#15411338)
You can be sure that whomever was involved with the bug will probably never make that mistake again.

We all like the story of "just spent a million dollars training you", but experience tells me that there is absolutely no assurance whatsoever that any random person won't be repeating that mistake in the future.

EDIT: and to be clear, of what tiny bit I know, I blame test more than dev. From the dev side I can see someone making a stupid mistake (that for the record I could just as easily make) swapping the foo with the bar, or some mis-click in IB. But I'm still astounded that this made it out of test without getting caught.

Re:If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the p... by marnett on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:18PM (#15411333)
They asked for new leadership, not new developers. The 'mistake' wasn't a bug in XYZ, but a leader who took feature deadlines ahead of actual functionality. That leader should be axed - that's what GGP was discussing.