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> Professional licensing is pure economic protectionism and largely fails at the stated goal of promoting safety, quality, or professionalism. Citations? > Vo
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago
> Professional licensing is pure economic protectionism and largely fails at the stated goal of promoting safety, quality, or professionalism.
Citations?
> Voluntary trade organizations, certifications and other methods
The software industry barely even has those.
- worik 4y ago> > Voluntary trade organizations, certifications and other methods > The software industry barely even has those. And no accountability. When a building collapses engineers form committees and seek the cause and check to see if any engineers were to blame. When a hospital gets hacked and private patient details are made public there are no such enquiries. The computer programmers responsible for creating insecure systems are not held to account. The upshot is civil engineers get to do a good job. If they cut corners it has real word effects and they get punished. Computer programmers never get held to account so their managers insist on minimum viable products being promoted irresponsibly into vulnerable systems that expose people's data. If we cut corners it has real world effects and every body blames the users. So we never (mēh, not often) get to to good work
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y agoWell put. Ethics are a double edged sword. Not only are you held to account but you can hold others to account.
- verisimilitudes 4y agoThe simple fact is most programmers would be too incompetent to exist in such a world.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y agoSounds like a problem with how programmers get trained?
- verisimilitudes 4y ago
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y agoSounds like a problem with how people get trained, then.