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[antt]

I always find it funny how I'm designing with best practices in mind on top of infrastructure someone out of university build as their first project.

[nostrebored → antt]

This is not the case with S3 and not the case with that incident.

[lugg → nostrebored]

Pretty sure there are first year grads who have worked on S3 as their first project.

[stavros → lugg]

So what? You're saying it as if they gave them root access to the servers and went "go nuts".

[lugg → stavros]

Bugs in code happen. You don't need write access to cause irreparable damage when the app you're working on has it.

[stavros → lugg]

This applies to everyone, juniors and seniors, and that's why we have code reviews, tests and tooling.

[karlkatzke → stavros]

Yeah, that's pretty much what major companies I've worked for will do with summer interns.

[stavros → karlkatzke]

I don't know, that hasn't been my experience at all in the companies I've worked for (maybe because there's no way I'd let it happen).

[antt → nostrebored]

You can't prove me wrong since it's source is not available.