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The problem is that this entire sclerotic industry is so allergic to accountability, that, if you want people to start, you probably have to fire 90% of the workforce. If it were up to me, the developers responsible for this would never write software "professionally" again.

The industry (or a couple of generations currently inhabiting it) could start with at least accepting responsibility when something goes wrong. Let me be clear: it's not about ending the "blameless culture" in engineering. No. It's about ending the culture of not taking any responsibility at all, when things go south. See the difference.

Standing up to a bully is not escalation, you miserable coward.

Russian shill bot.

Are you Ukrainian? Or just another westerner warmongering from a safe distance?

A privileged question that can only come from someone who has never been truly threatened. Bravo, you're the reason why everyone hates tech companies.

What? This makes no sense, and your baseless assumptions add nothing. Perhaps you misunderstood my question.

Ah yes, the moral high ground of: being invaded and asking an ally for help. Hmm...

Turn off Fox News and read a book.


Whoa, I didn't know you were being forced here against your will!

"I guess we should just surrender" is so easy to type with fingers that haven't been blown off by mortar shells.

Dude, an authoritarian invading a sovereign nation only has one side...

Lmao. Backlash in Russia is always followed by an unfortunate accident courtesy of a high balcony and gravity. Turn off Fox News.

Can we use these deflection skills in Trump's new Golden Dome missile defense system? Because wow.

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