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by subjectsigma 1060 days ago
Sure it’s a fine list if your job is to churn out knockoff mobile apps or spam ads everywhere.

I myself do not write this kind of software but I work regularly with people who write safety-critical components in things like airplanes, industrial manufacturing systems, and so on. If they decided, for example, they were too good to go through official channels, some very bad things could happen.