alt Hacker NewsAn example of prejudice? What an extraordinary statement. It’s an example of ethical, competent, responsible professionalism.
The ‘incentive structure’ is non-financial and based on the ethics of valuing other humans. This is a professional duty. To even call it a ‘incentive structure’ feels like it’s missing the point.
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ruined • yesterday at 11:26 PM
consequences like delicensing, and civil or criminal liability, are all significantly financial.
the ethical objectives are supported by disincentives, offsetting the financial incentives to misbehave.
and none of that exists in software engineering (yet).
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The comment is prejudice to conclude from the Google Engineer's supposed thought process as fact and to say that it's an example of why he isn't an 'engineer'. But you can find classic engineering fields where due process is ignored due to systemic pressures - like the Challenger incident. They were engineers but the system was broken. So it's not good enough to spit on the ground and say this is why they are not engineers.