What's it going to take to turn coding into a regulated profession, where someone's license can get yanked and they can be fined for egregious violations of documented standards?

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I've used an i7+ since late 2019. I've had to call their Customer Support a few times. The front line support staff try so hard to be helpful and they really do their best, but I get the impression that, behind the scenes, this is a company that loves its creative Computer Science people but is not so much in love with I.T. production best practices to provide a reliable tool for their customers. I don't think they take an engineering approach to their software. I doubt their software designers are actually using the tool in their own homes, with chairs that aren't in the same spot every day, with doors that are sometimes closed and sometimes open, with Amazon boxes sometimes piled in a corner, with a big dog that doesn't move until it's been bumped into a few times and then suddenly isn't in the same spot any more, etc. I expect if they tried a software rollback their "clever" toddler-level AI would throw a tantrum. I doubt they architected their solution end-to-end to take that into account; I suspect their "architecture" has become a Frankenstein's monster over time. I have no inside knowledge of the company, but from my (customer) point of view this looks like a company that is trying to be too clever for its own good and is not prioritizing making a tool that is dependable and reliable from a homeowner's point of view.

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At the risk of being pedantic, the sun is too small to go supernova. The best it can do is go nova, iirc.

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Auditors, especially public sector (in my experience), are mostly still only looking for financial fraud like embezzlement, not enterprise risk. They absolutely could obtain the expertise needed to audit this kind of blatant, simple, security failure, and bring it to the attention of senior management. It boggled my mind that the auditors would be concerned about a hundred dollar transaction while ignoring the millions of dollars worth of equipment (IT and other technology) whose failure could shut down the entire company for 6 months. Oh yes, we put it on the "departmental" risk register, but in the absence of enterprise risk management you could talk to senior execs until you were blue in the face and all they would do is nod sagely and say they would put it on an agenda. Way to miss the big picture, auditors and senior execs.

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Great! I'll have a Taj Mahal in my back yard, and when I get heartburn I'll just go out and chew off a cornice.

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Not quite. Wild turkeys are the same species (meleagris gallopavo) and will only disappear if/when they go extinct.

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Why are you so confident about that assertion?

I'm curious to find out whether it will sound something like parts of John Coltrane's "Ascension". I guess time will tell.

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Plus one other thing: Shareholders can try to sue if they think the company is not adhering to their fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder value. IANAL so I might not have the words exactly right.

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John Zachman of the Zachman Framework pointed out that the Data (What?) and Function (How?) columns in the framework become conflated in OOP, which can cause challenges when moving from analysis to design to implementation. He commented that an Object Model seems generally to correspond about 80% to a traditional Data Model but that the remainder will be a challenge to implement in a way that is reasonably maintainable. This is from my memory of a lecture I heard years ago so I don't have a source citation, unfortunately. This is in the context of Enterprise Architecture, so is not necessarily relevant to development of one-off apps or web sites that are customer-facing.

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Presumably this problem will crop up in other languages as well. They'll be playing whack-a-mole with this until all languages used in academia have the fix.

Really, if people are going to use CSVs they need to master the Import Wizard so they can define the data type of each column.

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I've had my times with thiols, but damn that one is out of the ballpark. Thanks for sharing.

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I wish I had mod points to give you a +1 for that. The Dunning-Kruger is strong with him.

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I came here to comment on the Eurocentrism but found that you did it well already. Thanks. If I had mod points I would mod this up.

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I think you're right to use the word "inevitable". Here's an article about how such bubbles form: https://phys.org/news/2020-06-...

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