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The story of Max, a real programmer

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129 points surprisetalk | 1 comments | 30 Jun 25 12:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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fithisux ◴[30 Jun 25 14:06 UTC] No.44423465[source]▶
I think Max's brain was not polluted with terror and showed trust in his tools.

Today many devs (and not prograamers)

are always suspicious, and terrified on the potential of something going wrong because someone will point a finger

even if the error is harmless or improbable.

My experience is that many modern devs are incapable of assigning significance or probabilities, they are usually not creative, fearful of "not using best practices", and do not take into consideration the anthropic aspect of software.

My 2 cents

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1. mrheosuper ◴[04 Jul 25 03:04 UTC] No.44460813[source]▶
OTH, even a small program mistake can be exceptionally expensive. Remember crowdstrike , a NULL deference that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

An unsafe string can be abused as attack vector to your system.