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tarsierscripter • today at 3:02 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

How often do skyscrapers fall over, or bridges collapse

When skyscrapers fall or bridges collapse, the negligent engineers who knowingly signed off on them go to jail. When was the last time a software developer or manager went to jail over a known bug?


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vlovich123 • today at 4:28 AM

People going to jail for such failures are actually quite rarer than you imply. And generally software bugs rarely cause similar damage either in lives or money lost.