Last year I was on a flight en-route to an Ed-Tech convention in Philly. There was on board wifi and my phone had the wifi turned on. I go and check my emails before departure and get a debug page from tomcat. My initial reaction was panic, but then I remembered that the wifi runs separately from avionics. After all the mental pictures of the plane going down in flames due to someone leaving a server in DEBUG mode disappeared I simply closed the tab, turned the airplance mode on and went to sleep. Knowing in full that I had put my life in the hands of people who are pressured into writing code that works under impossible deadlines.
That's why I think that just like the romans poisoned themselves over time with lead in their pipes we will kill ourselves with buggy code from shitty projects.
Last year I was on a flight en-route to an Ed-Tech convention in Philly. There was on board wifi and my phone had the wifi turned on. I go and check my emails before departure and get a debug page from tomcat. My initial reaction was panic, but then I remembered that the wifi runs separately from avionics. After all the mental pictures of the plane going down in flames due to someone leaving a server in DEBUG mode disappeared I simply closed the tab, turned the airplance mode on and went to sleep. Knowing in full that I had put my life in the hands of people who are pressured into writing code that works under impossible deadlines.
That's why I think that just like the romans poisoned themselves over time with lead in their pipes we will kill ourselves with buggy code from shitty projects.