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   by old-engineer 6y ago

   Did they apologize and try to fix it? This is not about being perfect. The parent post is fundamentally about caring about your mistakes.
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   by old-engineer 6y ago

   There always will be good and bad craftsmen. I once overheard my electrician demanding the guy installing the alarm system to lay his cables properly.
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   by old-engineer 6y ago

   You are right. This is the flip side of not treating software as an engineering discipline. But both parties are at fault. The business treats us like non-engineers and we don’t behave like ones.
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   by old-engineer 6y ago

   What I think should be common in these two cases is the attitude of a professional towards their work. Building software should be an engineering discipline with all its perks and responsibilities just like building bridges. We rarely see i
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   by old-engineer 6y ago

   Would you be ok with your dentist being OK with her slip-ups? “I really should have checked the x-ray better before I extracted your front tooth. But you know, I’m not sorry. It was an external constraint — there was a queue of patients wai