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Re:I’ve made a conscious effort to stop apologizing for bugs... by michaelcampbell on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:23PM (#22969776)
You're conflating the difficulty of doing something "right" with the result of not doing so.

Also the environment in which this happens is completely irrelevant.

Re:I’ve made a conscious effort to stop apologizing for bugs... by user5994461 on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:19PM (#22970569)
Try working in military applications, aerospace, tax software, medical devices, banking. Making one mistakes can affect the fates of hundreds if not millions. It's way more responsibility and risk than the job you quote.

By the way. A dentist gets to try on fake tooth before drilling a real tooth. They actually don't have a choice, that's part of the mandatory training. Doctors gets to train on real people too, medicine schools go to great length to procure bodies for training purpose.

In programming, one would be lucky to get any sort of test environment.

Re:I’ve made a conscious effort to stop apologizing for bugs... by blinds on Friday April 24, 2020 @10:02PM (#22974914)
> A dentist gets to try on fake tooth before drilling a real tooth.

Are you saying you went straight to writing production code before you ever studied any software engineering? Sounds unusual for practitioners of an industry endowed with such a critical responsibility.

A dentist can easily kill someone through malpractice... There's no code review, there's no test environment, and there are always difficult (often time-sensitive) decisions to make and difficult people to deal with.

If all you know is estimating story points and merging pull requests to make your burn-down chart look pretty you probably shouldn't be so confident that your profession is more difficult or more superior than one that you have no understanding of.

Re:I’ve made a conscious effort to stop apologizing for bugs... by user5994461 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @09:07AM (#22986859)
A software engineer can easily kill tens of people with a typo. Medical devices have a ton of software and it's only increasing.

Medical staff have the equivalent of code review and test environments. Non-routine operations have always multiple people in the room. They have bodies to practice on.

Do yourself a favour and drop the attitude. Medical and software industries both have some very difficult jobs.

Re:I’ve made a conscious effort to stop apologizing for bugs... by thisiszilff on Friday April 24, 2020 @07:55PM (#22974232)
Especially a test environment that accurately mirrors a production environment.
Re:I’ve made a conscious effort to stop apologizing for bugs... by lgessler on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:50PM (#22970182)
GP meant "harder" in the "it's possible to get things "perfect"" sense, not in the "leads to a more challenging professional life" sense.