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I don't disagree with that there have always been niche areas where there is a high cost to programming errors (like space or medical). But with crypto, the ef
by bhaak 4y ago
I don't disagree with that there have always been niche areas where there is a high cost to programming errors (like space or medical).
But with crypto, the effect is much more direct. The programmer is handling money much more directly and if something goes wrong, they are much more directly affected and not being insulated from the effects.
- FabHK 4y agoYes. In space, aviation, and medical, it is usually someone else that is affected, not the programmer.
- progrus 4y agoAnd in space, aviation, and medical, it takes a long time to go to market.
- AmericanChopper 4y agoAt the first proper job I had we would measure our service outages in dollars per second. It was always in the thousands, and we were just a rather ordinary financial OLTP service.