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> It's crucial because people can die Not every illness is lethal, for most of them you can just make it worse. Even less requires quick decision. Also, softwa
by aries1980 10y ago
> It's crucial because people can die
Not every illness is lethal, for most of them you can just make it worse. Even less requires quick decision. Also, software evolves and scales much quicker than humans which makes our industry less standardised.
> That is not something you can say with someone's code being written this exact second. There is always time to research, test, experiment, and change.
In my world, there is a risk assessment which defines if we have time to research, test, etc. or just fix it on the go, because it is not a big deal if it occurs. In other cases we have a cold sweat and dead silence during deployment, don't we?