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I don’t want to live in a world where an engineer and QA team could get jail time for signing off on a feature release like Apple Maps which wipes out $30bn in
by lefstathiou 9y ago
I don’t want to live in a world where an engineer and QA team could get jail time for signing off on a feature release like Apple Maps which wipes out $30bn in equity value on release day because it is loaded with bugs. Almost every time we miss a deadline or every time bugs go into production, losses are incurred somewhere by someone.
These were human beings like us that were doing the job they were mandated to do to the best of their ability. Many lost their livelihoods in the process. It created trillions of dollars in wealth (and losses) and anyone who has looked at their 401k lately can see that they are at it again.
- mplewis 9y agoThe banking crisis is a very different situation from a bad product launch. The banking executives knew exactly how bad things could be if the subprime markets failed.