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Re:How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of peo... by cdmyrm on Saturday March 01, 2025 @03:40AM (#43217328)
Good call. I'd seriously considering firing the developers responsible, too.
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Re:How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of peo... by throw339d00 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @04:16AM (#43217541)
That's what a bad manager would do.

The employee made a mistake and you just paid for them to learn about it. Why would you fire someone you just educated?

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Re:How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of peo... by newAccount2025 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @06:27AM (#43218258)
It’s not a matter of good or bad, but a choice among alternatives?

Nobody gets fired: learning opportunity for next time, but little direct incentive to improve.

Fire someone: accountability theater (who is really responsible), loss of knowledge.

AFAIK, blameless postmortems and a focus on mechanisms to prevent repeats seems like the best we’ve come up with?

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