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You should also read the source code. Developers are probably the only profession that blindly trusts their peers.
by z3t4 4y ago
You should also read the source code. Developers are probably the only profession that blindly trusts their peers.
- scarby2 4y agomost engineers blindly trust things when another engineer or vendor has signed off/certified on it. There's simply not enough time in the world to go through the certification date for every single part you use in a project. We trust that there has been a testing process that validates that things do what they say they will do. Admittedly when dealing with non-OSS vendors you can sue them if something goes badly wrong.
- dgb23 4y agoIt’s perfectly normal to trust your peers in a collaborative setting regardless of the profession. The issue is rather that this is only a largely collaborative one. Which makes the thing kind of worse, because you can _often_ get away with simply trusting everyone and there are economic and practical pressures to do so.