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> Software runs the world these days, you can't just let people with no licences write shitty code. Politicians and bureaucrats should join their forces and dec

by PinguTS 12y ago

> Software runs the world these days, you can't just let people with no licences write shitty code. Politicians and bureaucrats should join their forces and decide whether each individual programmer is of a certain level. If not, he is banned from writing code and should be fined or imprisoned if he ever tries to do that. For any public related service actually, that is regulated. Any software written for a car, truck, train, bus, airplane is regulated in terms of certification by so-called notified bodies.

snitko 12y ago
Which doesn't mean it's the right way to go. Bitcoin would've never been possible if a software engineer required a licence to write financial software. And it is a very critical piece of software.
- spdustin 12y ago
  Not to banks it isn't.
  - snitko 12y ago
    Banks, although regulated up to their necks, still manage to lose millions of dollars of customer's money in hacking attacks.
    - PinguTS 12y ago
      Which is not the customer's money but the bank's money. Get the difference on who will pay for at the end?
- PinguTS 12y ago
  Banks are not responsible to public safety. They do not fall under those regulations. It is their own personal interest not to loose money.