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by TaupeRanger 151 days ago
Iatrogenesis is everywhere! Medicine, engineering, economics, politics, etc.
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impish9208 151 days ago
I didn’t know this concept had a name, so thanks for that. Now I have a fancy sounding term to tell my manager why I won’t touch that ugly EnterpriseJavaBeans codebase and that we need to rewrite it from scratch.
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moralestapia 149 days ago
That's not what Iatrogenesis means, though ...

Unless you plan to give medicine to your code.

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TaupeRanger 149 days ago
“That’s not what Bug means though, unless you plan to put literal insects inside your computer”
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moralestapia 149 days ago
Iatro- means medicine ...

Check a dictionary or something.

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TaupeRanger 149 days ago
“Bug” is derived from “bugge”, which means “scarecrow or goblin”. Check a dictionary or something.
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moralestapia 149 days ago
I never said your analogy was valid, but the opposite.

Read carefully.

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