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Comment Yes (Score 2) 217

This is a good idea; a deeper understanding of the various roles around you can only improve your own work.

Similarly, coders should be able to:

  • Read (and write!) a project proposal
  • Successfully explain their work to a room full of non-technical people
  • Interpret a project plan and identify risk points
  • Understand an annual report
  • Grasp basic employment law

Specialized skills are substantially enhanced by a broader understanding of the organization as a whole.

Comment Re:Goodness (Score 1) 307

Perhaps all of that was an attempt to motivate at least a lukewarm response to the obviously coming problem so people wouldn't end up running around with their hair on fire later.

Oh I get that, I'm just saying that years of teeth-gnashing and arm-flailing has had pretty much the opposite of the desired effect.

This has been pitched as a dire and urgent danger for ages. The IPv4 address exhaustion problem Wikipedia article is nearly nine years old, for crying out loud.

This will get sorted out like pretty much every single other technical capacity issue gets sorted out: once the pain and cost of not acting becomes prohibitive, people will act, and it will cease to be an issue.

Comment However Shall We Figure This Out? (Score 1) 342

This it perhaps the first severe accident of this kind in a western factory, and is sparkling debate about who is responsible for the accident, the man who was servicing the robot beyond its protection cage, or the robot's hardware/software developers who didn't put enough safety checks. Will this distinction be more and more important in the future, when robots will be more widespread?

Folks, there exists an entire and oft maligned profession that is dedicated to figuring just this sort of thing out.

This isn't some big unsolved existential question. It's a fairly dry exercise in interpreting and applying precedent in new ways. Humans are actually reasonably good at sorting out how to deal with the legalities of new things.

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