Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem
masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 months agoAgain, that does not matter. If an engineer published those plans online and you built it and your kid died they would have their license revoked.
Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem
masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 months agoAgain, that does not matter. If an engineer published those plans online and you built it and your kid died they would have their license revoked.
CeeBee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There’s no equivalent to a licensed civil engineer in programming.The proper analogy is just anyone putting up those plans.
Why do you keep adding new parameters to these analogies? It’s such a simple concept but you are determined to prove your opinion, that the devs should acquiesce to your point of view, no matter what.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
It’s literally called a software engineer in most jurisdictions that aren’t America where anyone is allowed to call themselves that. And software engineers also have to take engineering ethics, both courses in university as well as in their final professional exams if they want to call themselves engineers.
You’re the one who added the “posted online” parameter. I responded and pointed out that it doesn’t matter to the analogy.
If you put something dangerous into the world, mark it “ready to use”, and encourage people to use it, and that results in them getting hurt or hurting others, then that is a bad thing and you have an obligation to fix it or warn people.
You’re right about it being a simple concept, I don’ understand where you think I’m demanding anyone do anything. The devs have already acquiesced after the community overwhelmingly dumped on their response. My only point has been that it’s not entitled to expect a developer to put a warning on software once they’ve been alerted that it’s dangerous.