s73ver

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   by s73ver 9y ago

   I got it out of what appears to be an unwillingness to hold these people accountable for their actions. All throughout this thread, including from you, I see an unwillingness to condemn these actions, and really, a call for a complete lack
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   by s73ver 9y ago

   THIS IS NOT A MISTAKE! He didn’t spill milk. He didn’t pick the wrong wine for dinner. He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew it was wrong. He did it anyway. I’m sorry, but I just cannot stand so many people having this “boys will be bo
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   by s73ver 9y ago

   At some point, the “mistake” ceases to be believable as a mistake.
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   by s73ver 9y ago

   At the same time, your “boys will be boys” attitude makes it hard to take you seriously as well. How do we actually get this behavior to stop when there are so many out there saying we shouldn’t call it out or there shouldn’t be consequence
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   by s73ver 9y ago

   The lack of concern is evidenced by nothing actually being done about it.
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   by s73ver 9y ago

   No, it really doesn’t. The two have nothing to do with each other. One is quite rampant, while the other is quite rare.
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   by s73ver 9y ago

   I hope this becomes more and more common, leading to actual protections against it, and not the "We're totally serious about combating harassment and sexism, this time, for reals" response that it seems has the the norm for t
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   by s73ver 9y ago

   The measure of a society is how it treats those lesser than them. That includes animals who are beasts of burden or food. Quite simply, just because they are meant to be food does not mean they should suffer during their existence.
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   by s73ver 9y ago

   Mt. Gox has proven that the custodian of your BTC can also steal it from you at any time.
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    It doesn't. It just puts a different set of people on top.
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    Presumably the people who voted for Britain's ruling government at the time.
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    You mean the European Parliament? The body to whom British citizens did in fact elect members to?
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    I think it is these "pick and choose" exclusions that have no actual sense to them. Of course a homeowner's insurance policy should cover flood damage to a floor. The floor is part of the home, isn't it? But no, the comp
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    I mean before you've written any code at all. Like, you have to have the tests for all units created before you start writing the code for any unit. That's what the person I responded to made it sound like. Writing tests before yo
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    Yeah, but if you're prototyping, then that shouldn't be the actual code you use. You write a prototype to test your assumptions, have the people bang on it for a bit, then throw it away. You take the lessons you've learned fr
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    If the requirements are unclear, then why are you writing code? Why aren't you having conversations with people to clear up those requirements?
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    No you don't. You just need to know what the unit you're currently working on does. And if you're working on it, you should know what it does. If you don't, that's a sign that maybe you need to have a conversation w
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    Maybe if that bonus was tied to the amount of critical bugs that came back within the next year or so
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    I've never heard TDD being that you write all of your tests up front, before you've written any code. I've always heard it as: When you're writing a class/unit, you write a few tests for what that unit is going to d
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    If that were the case, they wouldn't need those clauses inserted into contracts. The idea of any kind of "duty of loyalty" is absolutely laughable in this day and age. Employers have long since rejected any sense of having lo
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    Are they paying for it to be automated? Further, is it ethical to automate yourself out of a job, and not be able to support your family?
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    So you feel that he is obligated to get himself fired, thus not being able to feed and support his family? What kind of ethics are those?
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    “What kind of world do you live in where intentions and honesty don't matter, and only "effects" do?” The world where, doing what this guy did, ignoring the intentional errors part, he would be just as likely to be fired as h
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    Software is specifically exempted from that.
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    I can't really call it "significant financial gain" considering the likely outcome of telling their employer is that they get fired. Keeping your existing job doesn't fall under "significant financial gain" to
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    And they didn't attempt to exploit an information asymmetry when hiring them?
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    Only if the contract says so. Since it wasn't a development job, there's a chance that clause isn't there.
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    Considering that they're just as likely to fire you as they are to promote you, I would say it's perfectly ethical to not tell them.
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    I'm not referring to just here in this thread, but in general. And I disagree on #2. I think the vast income disparity is far more damaging to the poor.
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    by s73ver 9y ago

    Yet, it sounds like most of those people would rather spend more time and effort fighting raises in minimum wage than fighting those other problems.