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Let me make this quick tool for the development environment. I'm not sure what else we'll need, let me add some pre/post flexibility. We have this useful tool
by brianpan 5y ago
Let me make this quick tool for the development environment.
I'm not sure what else we'll need, let me add some pre/post flexibility.
We have this useful tool let's use it for more things.
Let's standardize on this. Who wrote this? It's ok, we'll do a readiness review.
We have WHAT in production? This is going to make a crazy blog post.
- atoav 5y agoI understand that, but the blog post specifically wrote about customers running that code. Sure I sometimes have a little high standards compared to others, but how are we ever gonna fix software if we don't stop with the "let me quick..." If you e.g. handle private data of people you should code as if every character you type had the ability to leak a persons data forever (because often it has). Programming is beautiful because it multiplies. If you do a good job, the fruits of your work can make many peoples lives better. The same is true into the other direction: With great power comes great responsibility. I also happen to be a certified electrical engineer. There you also have situations where you'd want to "just quickly" fix something. Only that you don't do it because you would be liable if you burn someone's house down or kill them. I'd love for the whole field to get a little bit more serious about the impact our work has if done badly.
- cranekam 5y ago"Customer" here meant "another team at the same company running code on the same common platform". It's not like this thing was providing backdoor access to a Mom & Pop pizza shop. (Source: familiar with the incident)