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72deluxe
on July 22, 2014
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Count to ten when a plane goes down
Would you say that making a mistake in software is equal to taking a human life?
maaku
on July 22, 2014
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Depends on the what the software does.
72deluxe
on July 24, 2014
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Not sure why the downvotes, but I think for the application software that probably 98% of us here write, it isn't as important as we'd like to believe in comparison to a person's life.
Either that or life is really really cheap.
evilduck
on July 22, 2014
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If you were the developer for a Therac-25, yes, yes I would.
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