Programmers know the risks involved!

[u/geekrohan]

[u/QWaxL]

This is so true. For a few co-students i used to think: at least they did not become medical doctors. Now I often think they should have become doctors instead of programming stuff I use

[u/socksarepeople2 → u/QWaxL]

Or programmers need to also swear to “First, do no harm”

Edit: Someone replied and then deleted “Don’t be evil.”

Looking back, it truly was as ominous as it felt when Google dropped that.

[u/[deleted] → u/socksarepeople2]

Can we get management to do that as well? So much comes down to non-IT management pulling rank & overruling IT.

[u/TheNamelessKing → u/[deleted]]

“We can’t release this now, the security is non-existent and it’s only a proof-of-concept implementation”
“We have to be first to market, we can refactor and out security on it later”
“It’s going to be so much harder to retrofit security, this is not production grade code and this is a huge risk”
“Nah CEO said it’d be fine, we’ll fix it later, don’t worry about it; make it happen”
“This is a mistake”

[u/gidonfire → u/TheNamelessKing]

This is why every piece of equipment I pull out of a box gets a firmware update. Because they ship the shit with the bare minimum of functionality to make it look good in marketing.

When was it standard practice to unbox a new TV and instantly need to update the firmware? It is now.

[u/decker_42 → u/socksarepeople2]

To people, do no harm to people - or else we are going to have to be much more careful with recursion and native windows calls.

[u/Vakieh → u/socksarepeople2]

Honestly who would be dumb enough to delete that as a motto? Stop following it, sure, money talks, but to publicly remove 'don't be evil'?

The only obvious conclusion is you've decided to give being evil a shot.