Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disadvantaged aspiring devs

Re:Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disad... by pbourke on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:40AM (#28796388)

> failure to perform leads to more severe consequences as compared to tech.

When “we” (people who write code) fuck up, things like this can and have happened:

- people die of radiation poisoning (Therac 25)

- cars crash (Toyota unintended acceleration, Tesla autopilot fails)

- rockets explode (Ariane 5)

- hundreds of millions of dollars are lost (Knight Capital)

- the financial information of millions is exposed (Equifax)

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Re:Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disad... by zactato on Friday October 08, 2021 @09:56AM (#28799342)

Isn't this why we have unit testing, code review, CI?

Also most of us aren't working in these industries. Most software developers build consumer apps for buying stuff or serving ads.

All of Facebook was just down from a single error. No one died.

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