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> there is a high penalty for making mistakes I experienced this working for the US arm of a Japanese company. To report a bug would cause the programmer to lo

> there is a high penalty for making mistakes I experienced this working for the US arm of a Japanese company. To report a bug would cause the programmer to lose face, so we had to waste a lot of time going through all kinds of contortions to lead someone to the bug without calling it out. We wrote a lot of "feature requests" that were really bug reports.

dudeinjapan 4y ago
Yes, this is completely stupid and something I've tried to do away with at my company. Who cares who made the bug, let's just fix the damn thing.
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_fat_santa 4y ago
> To report a bug would cause the programmer to lose face I'm sure there are some bugs that are directly caused by a programmer, but what about all the other inevitable bugs like a vendor upgrading their library, breaking changes, etc? At least in SWE, the biggest "mistake" here is conflating that bugs and mistakes are the same thing.
galaxyLogic 4y ago
To report a bug would cause almost a hara-kiri I can assume. It's a crazy evil society where anybody had to commit hara-kiri. It doesn't help anyone if you kill yourself. If you want to atone for your sins better do it by working harder. Is that a major difference between East and West? Is that a benefit of Christianity that you can be forgiven for your sins, once you admit them?