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Git Blame exists for a reason, and that's to find the engineer who pushed the bad commit so everyone can work together to fix it.
Blame the Project manager/Middle manager/C-Level exec/Unaware CEO/Greedy Shareholders who allowed for a CI/CD process that doesn't allow ample time to test and validate changes.
Software needs a union. This shit is getting out of control.
Casual hard R slur in chat
Edit who the fuck is downvoting me and therefore defending using a slur?
Linus?
Apparently a snowflake deleted my comment too lol
I'm going to guess it was a libertarian who took exception to my calling them out hahaha
Snowflake? Why are mentally disabled folks ok to make fun of? They didn't pick it or do it, and it has nothing to do with good or bad politics.
Make fun of things people choose to do. Not shit they were born with.
Definition of removed- a person affected with intellectual disability
I stand by what I said. Sorry I ruffled your jimmies. Not sorry I used the word. You imply my insulting mentally disabled people. I'm not.
You are. It's a slur. It is not an accepted term in the medical community.
Edit here's an actual definition from https://www.merriam-webster.com:
Further, you use it as an insult specifically in that you suggest someone of a certain political preference is intellectually disabled.
Essentially you are combining someone's medical situation they did not pick or cause, with someone else's political interests. That's fucked up.
Edit this is like if you used the n word then finished a comment saying "I'm not insulting anyone. I'm using it my own way". You don't get to do that, that's not how slurs work.
Damn, I knew the original term was offensive now and had wondered what they replaced it with, intellectually disabled sounds kinda offensive too xD
Like, it's not just saying this person has a cognitive disability, but that they're lower on a class level as well.
I know that's not the intent and it's miles better than the old offensive term, but something like "cognitively disabled" sounds much less offensive than "intellectually disabled". Wish they went with something like that.
I think it's probably because the term intellectual is used in society to describe a class of people (e.g. "Why yes, I'm an intellectual, I read Yeats while you people read the daily rag") who tend to think of themselves as better or smarter than others...
So, calling someone "intellectually disabled" sounds like it's an insult someone from that class would use on someone they wanted to look down on, you know?
I'm glad they moved away from other misused medical terms, but yeah, pity they settled on a term that sounds like it's throwing shade ><
Unions often create barriers to new people entering a field and driving wages down. This is an issue for many devs, like me, because I don't have a degree, I'm self taught and freelance- I'm worried I'd be forced out of the field or into more formal employment by licensing or other requirements. Neither of which I want.
Yeah every time I've ever looked into it there's always someone talking about "protecting the field from amateurs". And usually that means protecting the field from people who don't have a degree.
I actually do have a degree but it's in forensics. I just let them fill the blank in for themselves and let them think it's digital forensics.
Which I really don't get, because to my knowledge no disproportionate amount of problems has been caused by self-taught devs.
It really feels more like either elitism or wanting to protect wages.
Or it needs to be a profession.
Licensed professional engineers are expected to push back on requests that endanger the public and face legal liability if they don't. Software has hit the point where failure is causing the economic damage of a bridge collapsing.
Sounds like the kind of oversight that tends to come with a union and the representation therein.
Lol, sadly not. Most professions do not have unions and representation, such that it is, falls mostly to the accreditation group.
Software engineering is too wide and deep for licensing to be feasible without a degree program- which would be a massive slap in the face to the millions of skilled self taught devs.
Some states let some people get professional licensure through experience alone. It just ends up taking more than a decade of experience to meet the equivalent requirements of a four year degree.
Yeaaa that's not exactly a solution
Why not? It is still valuing the self education of people. It just means having a license to manage the system requires people with significant experience.
And it isn't like a degree alone is required for licensure.
Because a decade of professional experience is a long time, and doesn't value independent experience. I've been coding for over 11 years, but professionally only a couple. Also software development is very international, how would that even be managed when working with self-taught people across continents?
I agree developers should be responsible, but licensing isn't it, when there are 16 year olds that are better devs than master's graduates.
Do we allow for self taught doctors or accountants?
Also, these regulations aren't being developed for all servers, just ones that can cause major economic damage if they stop functioning. And you don't need everyone to be qualified to run the service. How many water treatment pants are there where you only have a small set of managers running the plant, but most people aren't licensed to do so?
Is this limitation good? Furthermore, software development is something very easy to learn with 0 consequences.
Many of those have excellent self-taught devs developing software for them- I know some of them.
Maintenance is very different from software development.
Good software development requires at minimum expansive automated testing...
Do you trust anyone claiming to be self taught with the responsibility to design something that, if it fails, will cause billions in economic damage? Not the people you know, anyone who claims to be self taught?
I shouldn't be trusted if I hire without vetting and hand over control of a massive project to someone off the street without any QA controls, code review, or automated testing.
Then you do not get licensed and cannot work on certain projects that may require a licensed or accredited team.
Licensure isn't about how good you are. It's about ensuring that you, as a professional, understand the ramifications of your contributions to the work you do and the field you are a part of and accepting the responsibility of those ramifications. Continuing education is also a huge part of it but I don't think software engineers have much issue there.
Does it have a record across industries of demonstrably doing that? I don't believe so.
Is there any evidence of that actually being a problem amongst self-taught devs? (And not a problem amongst traditionally degree'd devs?)
In my experience, self-taught devs have a higher sense of responsibility when it comes to code than fresh grads or boot-camp devs. But of course once someone's been working for a bit it all evens out.
And in the cases of healthcare and emergency dispatch, loss of life as well.