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I think you've fallen victim to poe's law. In fairness the parent comment gave few enough hints at satire that I'll need to see the author confirm they did or d

• HillaryBriss 11y ago
  Thank you for the feedback. I was attempting sarcasm. My hope was that the line "It's the only way we can reduce the number of data breaches and crashes" would seem immediately ridiculous to everyone. Given the history of surprising security bugs in mature code being discovered by a decentralized collection of users and hackers over long periods of time -- a phenomenon we've all witnessed over the years -- I figured the notion that a slow-moving, bureaucratic supreme panel of code judges effectively and decisively removing security problems basically didn't make sense. I don't know now. Maybe it makes more sense than I thought.
  • techbio 11y ago
    That checks out.
  • snowwrestler 11y ago
    I think most programmers today take it on faith that the lightly regulated, free wheeling nature of programming is an inherent, unchangeable, and desirable state. But if you look back at the history of highly-regulated technology industries, every single one started out lightly regulated and free wheeling. Early railroad, automobile, oil drilling, aviation, and telecommunication companies (to name a few) were all full of self-taught innovators who wanted to move fast and disrupt things. As software eats the world, the world will become less and less tolerant of shitty software. I will not be surprised at all to see demand for credentialling and oversight grow even in the next 10 years.