Comment by aredox
4 days ago
>you can also tell the person "This is really bad, you messed up, this type of a mistake is unacceptable and horrific"
Is that supposed to be professional? Especially for 99.999% of code, outside of real life-and-death Therac-25/Fly-by-wire/nuclear plant control sotware?
it's relative isn't it? it may not even be code per-se. I'm implying for the sake of this discussion that for the people concerned, this is equivalent to making a mistake that made a nuclear power-plant go critical. A business-killer bug is like that for those involved. People get laid off, families lose their source of income, people commit suicide, divorce,etc.. as a result. I'm usually less concerned about financial loss than the human impact surrounding our mistakes.
I've screwed up, but I hope I never screw up so badly it starts messing with people's lives and well being.