Re:A brief history and future of credit scores
by lifeisstillgood on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:43AM
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>>> no Hippocratic oath for our profession
Sadly there is no profession for our profession. I often think the model for any software profession (if we can create that - something I doubt) is railway engineer - where the professional signs off on the safety / completeness of work done on the railway - and that no train can travel
without it. It leads to plenty of uncompetitive practises - but also to ... y'know ... people not dying in crashes.
How we start that is hard (probably something to do with safety critical software systems) because we aren't too sure what is the right way to build software.
And then we have the fun problem of the members of the profession trying to decide the answer to your trolley problem. Sorry scratch that. The various legislatures proscribing the answer and the profession trying to implement the conflicting results !
Sadly there is no profession for our profession. I often think the model for any software profession (if we can create that - something I doubt) is railway engineer - where the professional signs off on the safety / completeness of work done on the railway - and that no train can travel without it. It leads to plenty of uncompetitive practises - but also to ... y'know ... people not dying in crashes.
How we start that is hard (probably something to do with safety critical software systems) because we aren't too sure what is the right way to build software.
And then we have the fun problem of the members of the profession trying to decide the answer to your trolley problem. Sorry scratch that. The various legislatures proscribing the answer and the profession trying to implement the conflicting results !