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Maybe it’s the intangibility that lends to an attitude of less respect. Designing something in the physical world like a road you can’t screw up or people migh
by dpweb 5y ago
Maybe it’s the intangibility that lends to an attitude of less respect.
Designing something in the physical world like a road you can’t screw up or people might get hurt. You could say the same about software but only in a very few instances. There’s no necessary reverence for the laws of the natural world. Electricity and gravity will kill you.
- phillipcarter 5y agoHmmm. I don't necessarily know if I agree with that framing. I think there's a lot of software out there that could cause severe harm if it weren't written well enough, or its use cases were not thoroughly thought through. Thinking of all the software that runs hospitals, banks, etc. And then all the indirect harm caused in consumer software (often among teens). Not to mention software written for evil purposes, such as that to take down power networks, support child trafficking, etc. I think there's a pretty strong case to by made that software is serious business. Even if fiddling around with terraform providers or whatever feel pointless sometimes.
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