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Perhaps we have different conceptions of 'fraudulent'. I don't think it necessarily implies 'fake', but something more along the lines of using inferior buildin
by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Perhaps we have different conceptions of 'fraudulent'. I don't think it necessarily implies 'fake', but something more along the lines of using inferior building material. Perhaps it 'wasn't important all along' or perhaps it'll lead to catastrophic failure in 25 years, who knows? Software 'engineering' may be hard to fake, but that's because you're probably defining it as the proper way to develop software. A lot of software is certainly not built in a way familiar to an engineer.
- akiselev 6y agoBuilding materials are judge based on the standard of "survives for at least three decades without crushing those inside" not "survives the next reorg or pivot." What would be the equivalent of inferior building materials failing over 25 year timescales in software? C isn't even twice that age and the oldest running mainframe software is probably only a little older whereas we've had millenia of experience constructing buildings.