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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by vkou on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:37PM (#16683299)
"I am afraid that this will have a chilling effect against innovation in this area" is the sort of way that software engineers respond to similar problems in their space.

We need to hold ourselves to at least this good a standard.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by smitherfield on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:49PM (#16683393)
With notable exceptions (e.g. Therac-25, or self-driving cars) most of us have the luxury of working in spaces where mistakes may be annoying or costly, but not deadly.
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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by Zak on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:54PM (#16683861)
I agree. When working on products that have the potential to directly maim or kill people, we should involve domain experts and subject them to rigorous testing.
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