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by mechanical_fish
5408 days ago
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If you write anything of any consequence whatsoever, it will be employed by thousands or even millions of people, run for hundreds of thousands of hours, do many dollars worth of work. It will likely outlive you. You are also likely to find yourself, one day, in possession of a machine that, if it doesn't work correctly, will destroy your company's value and get all of your friends laid off. [1] You and your colleagues will have built that machine, partly from scratch and partly from stuff you found lying around on the Internet, and you will be handed the button and told to turn it on. --- [1] Mind you, these are minor consequences. Really important engineered things have much more severe consequences when they break: Patients die, soldiers die, hundreds of airline passengers die, entire towns fill with water, a few thousand square kilometers become uninhabitable for centuries, an entire regional ecosystem dies... |
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