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Re:Engineers Do Not Get to Make Startup Mistakes When They B... by masfuerte on Thursday November 28, 2024 @08:06PM (#42269911)
Has that ever happened? It's incredibly hard to prosecute directors in the UK for obvious malfeasance. I have never heard of a software engineer being sanctioned for crap code.
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Re:Engineers Do Not Get to Make Startup Mistakes When They B... by blibble on Thursday November 28, 2024 @08:08PM (#42269921)
for engineers[1] it is relatively new, having only been introduced in the last couple of years

[1]: technically those performing a Certified Function

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Re:Engineers Do Not Get to Make Startup Mistakes When They B... by intelVISA on Friday November 29, 2024 @02:00AM (#42271563)
unless the engineer was provably malicious wouldn't it be responsibility of the product owner? Ownership usually entails accountability, they could order proper QA?
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Re:Engineers Do Not Get to Make Startup Mistakes When They B... by that_guy_iain on Thursday November 28, 2024 @08:51PM (#42270113)
It would be nearly impossible to prosecute for just bad code. It would require more and is limited very small scope of people.
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