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by raquo 4025 days ago
Because if you build or design the smallest house improperly, it could collapse and kill people. If you build a crappy WordPress site nothing of similar consequence will happen.
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mschuster91 4025 days ago
But if you're building any software related to human safety, bad design or bad code quality WILL kill. Just look at Toyota.
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raquo 4025 days ago
Not sure about other parts of the world, but here in BC we do have licensed Software Engineers for these purposes. Most software developers aren't licensed though.
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cm2187 4025 days ago
My point is precisely that I think the public starts to realise that what is electronic matters too.
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