Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech

Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by blackflame7000 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @04:20PM (#20973496)

There isn't a single software engineer alive that hasn't made a negligible error. It's like penalizing doctors if their patient dies. The halting problem specifically prohibits a programmer from ever even knowing if they are without negligence or simply one iteration away from complete negligence. (ie integer overflow that occurred because the system was used longer than the original developer intended).

Also, I would wager that about 75% of bugs come from the seems of integrations where two peoples duties overlap. In that case who's fault is it if they both built half a bridge that doesn't line up?

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Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by pilsetnieks on Saturday September 14, 2019 @06:21PM (#20974227)

> It's like penalizing doctors if their patient dies

Doctors should be punished if their patient dies for reasons caused by doctor's own fault or by some unintentional action or inaction. That's why malpractice insurance is a thriving industry.

> In that case who's fault is it if they both built half a bridge that doesn't line up?

The chief engineer or the architect, the ones who signed off on the project. And again, that's why those industries have professional liability insurance.

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