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Don’t be absurd. Of course there are costs and tradeoffs to guardrails, and you have to balance the tradeoffs based on your requirements. This person had to p
by cle 6y ago
Don’t be absurd. Of course there are costs and tradeoffs to guardrails, and you have to balance the tradeoffs based on your requirements.
This person had to publicly apologize to their customers. One or two low-cost guardrails could have prevented it and would probably have been worth the cost.
- bigbubba 6y agoIs that absurd? Systems should prevent mistakes, unless the part needed to implement that is a hundred dollars or so? That seems like quite the walk-back. Courts order alcoholics to install these things, they're established available technology. What tradeoffs are you balancing here?
- TomVDB 6y agoIt's a free website to keep scoreboards. Not a mission critical nuclear missile launcher. (But if your mission critical system relies on that scoreboard website, that's on you...)