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by bathtub365 1095 days ago
Maybe we should, for high risk applications.
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AbrahamParangi 1094 days ago
You think software is bad now? Imagine if the world got 1% as much practice writing software because it was a licensed profession.
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flangola7 1094 days ago
Why is that a problem for software but not other licensed professions such as law and and *actual* engineers.
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AbrahamParangi 1092 days ago
Well, for starters I don’t want to live in a world with better lawyers, and secondly, by “actual engineers” do you mean civil engineers? In the US anyway, most engineers are not licensed excepting some civil engineers.
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