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Re:Defects are not the fault of programmers by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @03:26PM (#23469908)
Well the worst defect I've seen in a while is sitting unnoticed in a program I wrote and was specifically required by the owner after months of argument against it, references to scholarly works showing why it was stupid, explanations for how search engines work etc. etc.

Right now customers are happy, but I expect some time in the next year someone is going to get a big fine because they didn't find the data they were supposed to and didn't realize it, and then they will no longer be happy.

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Re:Defects are not the fault of programmers by Drdrdrq on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @03:48PM (#23470127)
I hope you have that in writing.
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Re:Defects are not the fault of programmers by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:50PM (#23470751)
As a matter of fact I do. Although the way things are structured I doubt anyone would come to blame me.
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Re:Defects are not the fault of programmers by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:58PM (#23470828)
anyway maybe I'm wrong, maybe everything will be great and my worries are baseless. maybe I'm overly cautious about engineering things.
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