Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers

Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by austincheney on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:42PM (#24111196)

Since absolutely every other professional industry employs some manner of uniform credentialing the only way opposing it in software, where is has not been tried in a meaningful way, makes sense is an argument from ignorance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance

Your bullet points conflate experimentation with production delivery. Licensed professionals in other industries can violate the ethical standards of practice so long as they are not billing for those violations and not representing a client with such violations.

> Second, one of the reasons why managing large hospital networks by people without a medical license works (more or less...) is that, for example, there's usually no legal way for the CEO to walk into an OR

So? I am a software developer and my bosses don't write software. No distinction.

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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by alxlaz on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @02:36AM (#24117732)

> Since absolutely every other professional industry employs some manner of uniform credentialing the only way opposing it in software, where is has not been tried in a meaningful way, makes sense is an argument from ignorance

Or one from experience ;-).

It may help to read all of an argument, rather than stop mid-sentence, too, but who am I to argue with Wikipedia?

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